Biomass energy use in Kenya

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Fridah Mugo, Tameezan Gathui

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2010

Energy in Woody Biomass: And the Industries that are Using it

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Churchill Ogutu, Emily Kitheka, Nellie Oduor

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2020

Piloting Biomass Energy Audit for Energy and Environmental Conservation in Homa Bay County in Kenya

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Conservancy, Counties, Energy and Fuels, Homa Bay County
Year: 2020

Behaviour Change and Communication Strategy for Promoting Clean Cooking in Kenya 2022: Towards Ensuring Access to Affordable, Reliable, Sustainable and Modern Energy for All Kenyans

Ministry of Energy and Petroleum

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2022

A review on household air pollution and biomass use over Kenya

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Scholastica Maloba, Victor Ongoma, Zablon Weku Shilenje

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass
Year: 2022

Adoption and impacts of clean bioenergy cookstoves in Kenya

Elsevier

Alexandros Gasparatos, Alice Karanja

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Energy and Fuels, Fuelwood and Charcoal
Year: 2018

Factors Influencing Use and Adoption of Clean Cooking Technologies in Rural Households: A Case Study of Bondo Sub-County,Kenya

University of Nairobi

Otieno Roy Odongo

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Energy and Fuels, Siaya County
Year: 2019

Kenya Energy Profile: Country Indicators and SDGs

International Renewable Energy Agency

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Energy and Fuels, Renewable Energy, Biomass
Year: 2023

Power to the Cooks! New Clean Cooking Opportunities for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Institut français des relations internationales

Cédric Philibert

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Africa, Biomass, Clean Cooking, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2022

Study on Use of Biomass Cookstoves and Fuels in Institutions in Kenya

Clean Cooking Association of Kenya

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2018

A Roadmap for Biofuels in Kenya Opportunities & Obstacles

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Energy and Fuels, Biomass
Year: 2008

Aboveground Woody Biomass Product Validation Good Practices Protocol

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)

Laura Duncanson, Mat Disney, John Armston, Jaime Nickeson, David Minor, Fernando Camacho

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass
Year: 2021

Baseline Woody Biomass Consumption for Household Cookstoves in Kenya

UNFCCC

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Biomass, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2017

Biomass Energy Use in Kenya

Practical Action

F. Mugo, T. Gathui

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2010

Dissemination and Problems of African Biogas Technology

Scientific Research Publishing

Cyimana Mulinda, Qichun Hu, Ke Pan

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Biogas, Technology and Innovation, Africa
Year: 2013

Energy In Woody Biomass And The Industries That Are Using It

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Nellie Oduor, Emily Kitheka, Churchill Ogutu

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Forestry and Natural Resources, Biogas, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2020

Faecal Sludge Management: Highlights and Exercises

Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Nienke Andriessen, Miriam Englund, Moritz Gold, Marius Klinger, Christoph Lüthi, Samuel Renggli, Stanley Sam, Linda Strande, BJ Ward

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Waste Management, Water and Sanitation, Biomass
Year: 2014

Feed-in-Tarrifs Policy on Renewable Energy Resource Generated Electricity (Smallhydro, Biomass and Biogas)

Ministry of Energy

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Biogas, Hydropower, East Africa, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2021

Realising Sustainable Use of Biomass Energy in Kenya: Appraising the Regulatory and Institutional Framework

Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development

Oseko Louis D Obure

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels, Renewable Energy
Year: 2022

Small-scale Electricity Generation from Biomass: Experience with Small-scale Technologies for Basic Energy Supply

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels, Electricity
Year: 2010

Traditional Biomass Energy: Improving its Use and Moving to Modern Energy Use

International Conference for Renewable Energies

Stephen Karekezi, Kusum Lata, Suani Teixeira Coelho

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels, Renewable Energy
Year: 2004

100% Renewables Energy System Modeling Results For Kisumu County, Kenya

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE

Dr. Annette Steingrube, Paul Reggentin

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Counties, Kisumu County, Pollution, Renewable Energy
Year: 2022

Africa's Development Dynamics 2019: Achieving Productive Transformation

African Union

, Bernard Osawa, Darius Boshoff, Emmanuel Michael Biririza, Francis Kemausuor, Hannes Muntingh and Linus Orakwe

Type: Reports and Publications, Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Africa, Bioenergy, Biomass, Climate Change Impacts
Year: 2019

Bedford Biofuels Jat ropha, Tana Delta, Kenya

EJOLT (Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade)

Bernard Osawa, Darius Boshoff, Emmanuel Michael Biririza, Francis Kemausuor, Hannes Muntingh and Linus Orakwe

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Bioenergy, Biomass
Year: 2021

Assesment of Sequestration Potential and Biomass Accumulation of Managed Mangrove Plantations of Mida Creek, Kilifi County Kenya

,

Ogola Kevin Omollo, Najma Dharani,

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Counties, Blue Economy and Coastal Ecosystems, Kilifi County
Year: 2021

Assessment of Health Effects Related to the Use of Biomass Fuel and Indoor Air Pollution in Kapkokwon Sub-Location, Bomet Country,Kenya

Scientific Research Publishing

Taratisio Ndwiga, Robert M. Kei, Hellen Jepngetich, Kenneth Korrir

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Air Pollution, Health and Climate Change, Bomet County, Counties
Year: 2014

Biomass availability, energy consumption and biochar production in rural households of Western Kenya

Elsevier

Dorisel Torres-Rojas, Johannes Lehmann, Peter Hobbs, Stephen Joseph, Henry Neufeldt

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy Efficiency, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2011

Who Gets the Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production? Biomass Distribution & the ?Sugar Economy? in the Tana Delta, Kenya

Land Deal Politics Initiative

Leah Temper

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Food and Agriculture
Year: 2012

Biomass Supply and the Sustainable Development Goals

IEA Bioenergy

Andrew Klain, Bruno Gagnon, Jean Blair

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass, SDGs
Year: 2021

Biomass yield and quality of fodder from selectedvarities of lablab (Lablab Purpureus L) in Nandi South sub-county in Kenya

Online Journal of Animal and Feed Research

Anthony Juma Wangila, Charles Karuku Gachuiri, James Wanjohi Muthomi, John Okeyo Ojiem

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Climate-Smart Agriculture, Nandi County
Year: 2020

Determinants of Aboveground Biomass across and Afromontane Landscape Mosaic in Kenya

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)

Eduardo Maeda, Hari Adhikari, Janne Heiskanen, Mika Siljander, Petri K. E. Pellikka, Vuokko Heikinheimo

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass
Year: 2017

Emission of volatile organic compounds during open fire cooking with wood biomass: Traditional three-stone open fire vs. gasifier cooking stove in rural Kenya

Elsevier

Andriy Rebryk, Ivan Kozyatnyk, Mary Njenga

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking
Year: 2024

Energy in woody biomass and the industries that are using it

Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI)

Nellie Oduor, Emily Kitheka, Churchill Ogutu

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels
Year: 2020

Estimating Tree Biomass of Sub-Saharan African Forests: a Review of Available Allometric Equations

Silva Fennica

Matieu Henry, Nicolas Picard, Carlo Trotta, Raphaël J. Manlay, Riccardo Valentini, Martial Bernoux, Laurent Saint-André

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Forestry and Natural Resources, Africa,
Year: 2011

Factors Influencing Adoption of Biomass Energy Conservation Technologies in Selected Areas of Kitui County, Kenya

David Publishing Company (DPC)

Emily Kitheka, Jacinta Kimiti, Nellie Oduor, Jane Wanza. Mutinda, Celestine Ingutia, Joseph Githiomi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy and Fuels, Counties, Kitui County
Year: 2019

Height and biomass of mangroves in Africa from ICESat/GLAS and SRTM

Taylor & Francis Group

Temilola E. Fatoyinbo, Marc Simard

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Africa, Blue Economy and Coastal Ecosystems
Year: 2012

Hindrances to Adoption of Biomass Briquettes Technology as a Climate Change Mitigation Measure- Case Study of Maasai-Mau Forest adjacent Community, Kenya

International Journal of Renewable Energy Sources

Dennis Chweya Mokaya, James Kibii Koske , Cecilia Gichuki, Innocent Osoro Ngare, Charles Ndiritu Kariuki, Isaac Kipkemoi, Leah Gichuki

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Climate Change Impacts, Mitigation, Biomass
Year: 2020

Influence of Plant and Soil Chemistry on Food Selection, Ranging Patterns, and Biomass of Colobus guereza in Kakamega Forest, Kenya

Springer Nature

Peter J. Fashing, Ellen S. Dierenfeld, Christopher B. Mowry

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Soils, Biomass, Food and Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources
Year: 2007

Mortality and Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Biomass and Petroleum Energy Futures in Africa

IEA Publications

Robert Bailis, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Emissions and Gases, Climate Change Impacts, Africa
Year: 2005

Protocols for the measurement, monitoring and reporting of structure, biomass and carbon stocks in mangrove forests

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

J. Boone Kauffman, Daniel C. Donato

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Carbon Markets, Blue Economy and Coastal Ecosystems
Year: 2012

Realising Sustainable Use of Biomass Energy in Kenya:Appraising the Regulatory and Institutional Framework

Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development

Oseko Louis D Obure

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Energy Efficiency, Climate Laws and Policies
Year: 2022

Feed-in-Tariffs policy on Renewable Energy Source Generated Electricity (small hydro, biomass and biogas)

Ministry of Energy

Type: Government and Legislation
Theme/Sector: Climate Laws and Policies, Biomass, Biogas, Renewable Energy
Year: 2008

Solid biomass fuels for cooking ? beyond firewood and charcoal

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Dorothea Otremba

Type: Reports and Publications
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Fuelwood and Charcoal
Year: 2017

Structure and biomass accumulation of natural mangrove forest at Gazi Bay, Kenya

Smujo International

Michael Njoroge Githaiga, Kiplagat Kotut, Francis Kariuki, James G. Kairo

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Forestry and Natural Resources, Biomass, Blue Economy and Coastal Ecosystems
Year: 2020

Testing institutional biomass cookstoves in rural Kenyan schools for the Millennium Villages Project

Elsevier

Edwin Adkins, Jiehua Chen, Jacob Winiecki, Peter Koinei, Vijay Modi

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, Clean Cooking, Fuelwood and Charcoal
Year: 2010

The effects of herbivory and nutrients on plant biomass and carbon storage in Vertisols of an East African savanna

Elsevier

Lucy W. Ngatia, Benjamin L. Turner, Jesee Theuri Njoka, Truman P. Young, K. Ramesh Reddy

Type: Research and Academic
Theme/Sector: Biomass, East Africa
Year: 2015

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