Mini-Grid Investment Fund using SHP
(SSA)
March 2017
In collaboration with the technical partner (generation, transmission, distribution and end-user connection) a pipeline of developed mini-grid projects are undergoing final due diligence before getting constructed. The fund will become a vertically integrated private utility providing remote mini-grid SSA regions with affordable and reliable electricity.
Captive Power Development (Ghana)
September 2020
Captive Power Development (CAPOW) seeks to provide investors in the short-term with access to project development returns of Renewable Energy (RE) projects by leveraging off the buoyant and growing Commercial & Industrial (C&I) market in Ghana. CAPOW will be incorporated in Ghana by seasoned RE management team and serve as the headquarters for the growing business. This C&I market focuses mainly Solar PV technology, that meets the strictest social, environmental and developmental objectives.
Further, it promotes several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. CAPOW will focus on the development of C&I and Energy Efficiency (EE) projects (off-grid/ island solutions and on-grid) facilitating captive energy generation and reducing consumption while increasing quality and reliability of energy supply for private and public customers
Biochar and Steam from Cocoa Pods
(West Africa)
September 2020
The chocolate industry produces vast quantities of biomass waste in forms of shells when processing beans to cocoa. Thereafter the biomass waste is not effectively utilised. The cocoa processing activity is dependent on fossil fuel such as Natural Gas. Those carbon emissions are particularly costly for industrial players who offset those emissions through the purchase of Emission Certificates.
Agriculture soils in general, but particularly in the Cocoa growing areas, suffer from loss of productivity and nitrate leaching as well as reduced water holding capacity due to intensive farming practices. These challenges present a profitability challenge at farm level and a sustainability and supply chain risk for the Cocoa industry in equatorial areas where Cocoa is grown by marginalized farmers.
The biochar product is cost-competitive to produce and sell at scale and especially when feedstock supply is consistent and available at site. The business model is resilient as it builds on a solid long-term steam supply revenue and is combined with highly attractive margins in the biochar market
Rural electrification using SHP
January 2019
SInce the beginning of 2019 KIDS is acting as the international consultant to the Program Manager of the UNDP in the Central African Republic.
The total project has funding from UN, GEF and the Government of CAR and is currently going through the bankability studies plus subsequent detail design tender, etc. for SHP and mini-grid. The project contains four cities have currently no electricity and are not adjacent to each other. They are hundreds of km apart from each other. WAPCOS from India was awarded the overall Feasibility Study and socio-economic study for the four sites plus mini-grids