Renewable Feedstock

Made from a 100% Organic Renewable Energy Source

All of our raw material inputs, such as sawdust, water hyacinth, grasses, food and agricultural wastes, are available in large quantities in Nigeria. We currently source these materials at marginal delivery cost to our plants. The feedstock, such as sawdust, water hyacinth, food wastes, grass and other biomass feedstock, are currently waste products. Largely due to the abundance of sawdust waste across many regions in Nigeria, we are able to achieve very minimal percentage cost on the price of feedstock as well as reduce environmental wastes in our cities and communities where such sawmills are sited. Sawdust combined with certain enzymes will produce bio ethanol gel.

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A Proven Model

With a Full Value Chain

Since Nigeria is a large and amazing market, we were careful not to sell a clean cookstove to someone that will not be able to continue purchasing the fuel supply. Our social marketing model helps to deliver on that. Social Entrepreneurs signed up to join us as distributors and educate our market. For doing so, they receive a share of the profit and carbon credit earnings on a monthly basis.

Leveraging Economies of Scale

Driving Down Costs

We are looking to scale up our production to undercut the Nigerian Kerosene market. Currently selling gel for $1.15 per liter USD, Kerosene prices vary between $1.55 and $1 per liter USD. With a major investment in our new production plant we could easily sell the gel for $0.85 at a constant market price. Adding the final step to our value proposition for the future fuel of Western Africa. Better, Safer and Cheaper.

Putting Bio-Waste to Work

Protecting the Planet against Climate Change

In Africa, we have huge waste. Dump sites of saw dust burn and produce pollutants to the environment. A sizeable percentage of log input in the Nigerian wood industry ends up as wood waste. Moreover, the volume of sawdust from sawmills continues to increase due to a rise in lumber production to meet growing demand for wood products. Nigeria has not fully exploited the potential for recycling waste materials, especially sawdust. Sawdust heaps are considered waste and therefore are indiscriminately incinerated, making a significant contribution to the greenhouse gas emissions. We accelerated our technology and converted this to clean energy. When you use this to cook, it is safe and clean.

Our Scalable Technology

Ready to become Africa's preferred fuel source

Through the operation of the two plants, one in Lagos (which has both an ethanol distillery and gel production plan) and Abuja (which has a gel production plant only), SMEFUNDS has demonstrated that bio-fuel for clean cookstoves is viable, sustainable and scalable. This has been demonstrated by the fact that there are over 15,000 green entrepreneurs (distribution agents) and over 1.6 million liters of bio-fuel sold in the last two years. The organization is now looking to move to exploit the growing demand we have encountered and generated. In the short term, GEB will peruse this through a three pronged strategy: establishing a larger plant in Lagos to produce at economies of scale, establish a national micro-refinery program that expands across Nigeria, and vigorous peruse partnerships that will put GEB on the cutting edge of cellulosic ethanol research and development.

Non-Explosive Fuel Agent

We like our customers to be safe.

Kerosene can pollute the room with carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide. These elements are a health risk to everyone who breathes them, but are especially dangerous to pregnant women, asthma sufferers, heart patients, the elderly and young children. Kerosene can explode if you use the wrong kind of fuel. Gasoline or the fuel for a camp stove will cause the explosion. Our gels are specially engineered to burn evenly and safely with little air pollution. Minimizing the risks in African homes.