ADDIS ABABA, Jan 19 (NNN-ENA) — Ethiopia’s Ministry of Mine and Energy is expanding fuel saving technology with the use of improved stoves through it rural energy development and promotion centre.
The ministry’s public relations expert, Roman Assefa, told Ethiopian news Agency (ENA) here Monday that the centre was implementing projects aimed at saving energy in six regional states — Tigray, Amhara , Oromia , Benishangul Gumuz , Gambella and South Ethiopia Peoples’ states with funds secured from the World Bank.
The improved stove has enabled households usig it to save 66 per cent energy compared with the previous 10 per cent, said Roman, who added that rural women used to travel up to eight km on average to fetch firewood and 30 per cent of their income was spent to buy firewood.
The expert said expansion of the use of the improved stove, named “Gonze”, would help address the problems faced by these women.
The head of the mines and egenry office of South West Shoa Zone, Hailu kenea, said the office was striving to distribute some 27,000 Gonze stoves and other improved energy saving stoves in the zone.
He said more than 3,000 fuel-saving stoves had been distributed in collaboration with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) such as World Vision, GTZ and Catholic Aid in the current Ethiopian fiscal year.
Members of improved stove producers’ association also said the demand for the stoves had been increasing.
Source – http://news.brunei.fm/2010/01/19/ethiopia-introducing-energy-saving-stove/
