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Our business model

A Better Alternative

When households cannot afford the upfront costs of a cylinder of cooking gas, they resort to unhealthy, expensive and environmentally unfriendly charcoal or kerosene. Circle Gas’s unique business model can make gas accessible to millions of households who can’t currently afford it.

The Customer

We identify high concentrations of current charcoal and kerosene users who are our potential customers. Working with communities, we install local depots in these areas to ensure that our customers have a secure and affordable supply of gas, topped up before they ever run out.

Pay as You Go

We install a full set of our equipment including a stovetop, a smart meter and a gas cylinder in customers’ homes. This equipment is owned and maintained by us – the customer only pays for the gas that they use. The result is cheaper and safer fuel that can be purchased as needed, even meal-by-meal, with mobile money.

Leading Edge Technology

Our technology remotely captures when our customer’s gas is low. Using sophisticated logistics, our local fleet of motorised technicians replace the cylinder before it runs out. When the mobile money funds that are loaded on the meter by the customer run out, the smart meter ensures the tamper-proof cylinder valve automatically shuts off the gas supply.

Return on Investment

Customers use our gas daily to cook, paying as they go; this produces a steady stream of recurring revenue from gas sales that generates a reliable return on investment.

Our Presence

Circle Gas in Kenya

Kenya

Circle Gas launched its Kenyan offering to customers in Nairobi in January 2020

Circle Gas in Tanzania

Tanzania

Circle Gas acquired the KopaGas technology, which has been successfully developed and used to service customers in Dar es Salaam since 2015

China

Circle Gas manufactures its smart meters and invests in hardware and software technology development in China

Circle Gas in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Circle Gas has head office operations in London, including a financial, legal and business development team

With Support From

Circle Gas' partner Safaricom

Kenya Operations Are Powered by Safaricom

Safaricom of Kenya is a strategic investor in Circle Gas and has an operating agreement with the Circle Gas Kenyan subsidiary M-Gas, covering branding and marketing, technology and customer service. Mobile money payments in Kenya will be processed using Safaricom’s M-Pesa.

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Impact

We make clean, convenient cooking possible for low-income households of the developing world. By combining cutting edge, pay-as-you-go technology with efficient logistics and home deliveries, we make LPG an accessible, cheaper alternative to cooking with charcoal, kerosene or wood.

Impact

Global Team

We have come together with a common goal of delivering clean, affordable cooking to those who don’t currently have access and creating meaningful careers for our employees while building a profitable, sustainable business for our investors.

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News

Check back frequently to hear the latest news from Circle Gas.

In the News

Circle Gas announces investment by Marubeni Corporation

We are pleased to announce an investment by Marubeni Corporation, a global integrated trading and investment business conglomerate based in […]

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Circle Gas Supplies Clean Cooking Gas to over 100,000 Households

We are proud to announce that we now supply over 100,000 customers with climate-friendly cooking gas services. Circle Gas sells […]

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Circle Gas signs Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Quectel

We have signed a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Quectel to support bringing affordable, clean cooking to millions of low-income households […]

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Circle Gas signs agreement with University of Liverpool to advance health and climate impact research

We have signed an agreement with the University of Liverpool to carry out research into the transition to clean, modern energy in Sub-Saharan Africa using our smart […]

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Circle Gas and Safaricom extend strategic collaboration

We are delighted that Safaricom has expanded its collaboration with M-Gas, our Kenyan subsidiary, to deliver solutions that transform the […]

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Circle Gas is adapting to COVID 19

The pandemic is creating great uncertainty for all businesses. We expect there are going to be significant and long-lasting changes […]

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Clean Cooking Alliance interview CEO Volker Schultz

Our CEO Volker Schultz recently spoke with Peter George, the Clean Cooking Alliance’s Senior Director for Private Sector & Investment, […]

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Circle Gas Launch at UK-Kenya Tech Hub

We announced the launch of Circle Gas and our Kenyan subsidiary MGas at the UK-Kenya Technology Hub, hosted by the […]

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Circle Gas Completes Acquisition of KOPAGAS™ Technology

Circle Gas Limited has concluded the acquisition of KopaGas’s proprietary technology in a transaction worth USD 25 million. The deal […]

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