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Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and Clean Energy

Affordable energy for cooking is an essential form of energy access.

Women and Children

Using LPG reduces the use of unhealthy charcoal and kerosene which disproportionately impacts women and children; safer and more efficient use of householders’ time (no need for collecting wood and shorter cooking times); improved use of time in the home for study and work.

Improved Health Outcomes

Reducing charcoal and kerosene use results in improved air quality (particulates) within households and safer food preparation.

Climate and The Environment

Using LPG replaces charcoal, a fuel which is consuming scarce forestry resources. It reduces CO2 and black carbon emissions.

Poverty Reduction

The Circle Gas target market is the urban low-income population. Our service provides meaningful savings for customers while creating thousands of high-quality jobs.

Innovation

Circle Gas is investing in research and innovation in Africa which will bring cutting-edge technologies to the mass market in developing countries.

Sustainable Cities and Communities

Circle Gas focuses on dense urban areas which lack basic services infrastructure. It also helps improve the living standards for all by improving air quality and reducing dependence on often illegal charcoal sellers.

Social and environmental benefits

Clean cooking solutions are badly needed throughout the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where most families use expensive and polluting cooking fuels such as charcoal, biomass and kerosene, every day.

Cooking with such fuels has serious impacts on the respiratory health of children and women who disproportionately bear the cooking responsibilities. The intense demand for charcoal in urban centres means that forest stocks are not sustainably managed but rather sacrificed to produce charcoal.

Today, LPG is a clean cooking solution used globally by over 3 billion people, yet it remains mostly unaffordable in sub-Saharan Africa. The social benefits of LPG for cooking include the enhanced safety of women and children, improved health outcomes, lower-cost energy access and reduced environmental impact, contributing to climate change mitigation.

LPG and the Environment

Switching from harvested wood to LPG has profound climate mitigation impacts, as well, reducing net carbon emissions by 67% .

Deforrestation

Demand for charcoal results in uncontrolled harvesting of woodland, leading to often illegal deforestation.

Black Carbon

When charcoal burns, it releases black carbon, considered to be a major indoor air pollutant.

Indoor Air Pollution (IAP)

IAP can be any particulate matter which contributes to poor health outcomes and is often a result of burning charcoal and kerosene.

Energy Efficiency

Gas stoves are much more energy-efficient than traditional charcoal stoves.

Health and Safety

Used properly, LPG is a safe product used by billions around the world, and in Kenya and Tanzania it is considered a fuel of choice for those who can afford it. Our customer care team ensures that LPG can be used safely in each customer home. At each visit to a customer home, safety checks are performed.

We only use Circle Gas cylinders, which comply with local and international regulation, and source high-quality piping. Only skilled employees interact with the customer at initial installation and replacement of the cooking gas cylinders so that we can ensure safety and safeguarding procedures are followed.

News

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

In the News

Circle Gas and Safaricom extend strategic collaboration

Safaricom has expanded its collaboration with MGas, our Kenyan subsidiary, to deliver solutions that transform the lives of even more Kenyans. The relationship will enable joint technology development, expertise sharing, co-creation of solutions, and market support between the two firms.

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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 to the societies we live in. It is too early to fully understand the ramifications of the pandemic, but the need for affordable and clean cooking solution, and Circle Gas services, seem as pressing as […]

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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, about our recent the acquisition of of KopaGas's propriety technology and what this deal means for the future of the company and its contribution to scaling up clean cooking solutions in emerging markets.

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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 Nairobi Tech Hub and the UK High Commission to Kenya. In attendance were Alok Sharma, UK Government Sectary of State for the Department of International Development, Susie Kitchens, Deputy High Commissioner and Michael Joseph, current […]

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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.

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