Published on July 25, 2024 by Agencies for Kenya Online News
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Nairobi, July 25, 2024 – In a move to enhance clean cooking accessibility in Kenya, TotalEnergies Marketing Kenya has partnered with M-Gas to scale its affordable Pay-as-You-Cook technology that seeks to Impact over 1 million lives annually in Kenya.
Through this collaboration, M-Gas will provide its revolutionary pay-as-you-cook Smart Meters installed on TotalEnergies’ LPG cylinders, while TotalEnergies will provide the cooking gas. The Proprietary Smart Meter from M-Gas democratizes LPG for consumers who otherwise could not afford the upfront cost of buying Gas.
This technology enables customers to cook a meal with as little as 10 KES via mobile money payments, addressing the high-cost barrier of purchasing LPG upfront. Inaddition, families benefit from health advantages by switching from traditional cooking methods like charcoal to more affordable and less polluting LPG.
‘’We are very happy to partner with M-Gas in actualizing TotalEnergies’ ambition of developing access to clean cooking in Kenya. Through this shared vision with M- Gas, we aim to have a positive impact in Kenya that will not only impact the environment, people’s health but also reduce gender inequalities, especially time poverty for women. The partnership is also aligned to the vision by the Government of Kenya of increasing LPG penetration and consumption per capita in the country’’ said Mr. Fanchini.
400,000 households are currently using the M-Gas solution, impacting over 2 million lives today in Kenya.
“The partnership with TotalEnergies enables M-Gas to scale our mission of providing an affordable clean cooking solution to households across Kenya. Leveraging our proprietary smart meter technology and elaborate last mile infrastructure alongside TotalEnergies extensive supply infrastructure, this partnership will expand our reach to a wider previously underserved market, making clean cooking accessible to more families. Together, we will expand LPG usage to meet national targets and driving transformative change that benefits both people and the planet,” said Mr. Kimani.
This partnership creates a brand new clean cooking business model which has the potential to scale across the entire continent, in line with TotalEnergies’ ambition of giving 100 million people in Africa and India access to clean cooking by 2030 as announced by the TotalEnergies last May, at the Clean Cooking Summit organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA).
