Low-income communities can cook with clean gas that is affordable and available to all.
The current energy offer lacks a clean, accessible, and affordable cooking option tailored to the needs of the low-income population: in Africa, electricity is frequently unavailable, and the common use of biomass (paraffin, coal, wood) burned in open fires is extremely hazardous to consumers’ health and the environment. Gas (LPG) might be the solution for improving public health and lowering air pollution while leaving a very small environmental impact; yet, distribution and purchasing hurdles are too high for typical LPG firms to invest in servicing the low-income sector. Pay-as-you-Gas is an accessible, affordable, inclusive, and environmentally responsible clean cooking solution: by implementing dispensing gas stations in South African townships -managed by local micro-entrepreneurs-, Pay-as-You-Go is providing low-income communities with access to LPG gas and preventing the consumption of costly and polluting alternatives such as coal or paraffin.
Positive facts about Pay-as-you-Gas
LPG is 50% less polluting than coal
20% less CO2 emissions than heating oil
50% less CO2 emissions than coal
For the same amount spent, LPG quantity will last 4 times longer than oil
€1500 net revenue redistributed to each local entrepreneurs per month
Video about Pay-as-you-Gas
https://www.youtube.com/embed/aHd3C3DzqLI
Pay-as-you-Gas website : https://paygas.africa/
