Nile Bioeconomic Innovations Ltd has pioneered a Comprehensive Bioenergy Program that aims to assure sustainable supply of solid, liquid and gaseous bioenergy products as well as generate significant quantities of ecofriendly electric power for industrial, commercial and household use using the latest technology. 

Through the community focused sustainable agroforestry, all the feedstock required for producing the various bioenergy products is produced using models that are socially acceptable and environmentally sustainable. In this way, the overarching objective of climate mitigation is put in the broader perspective of transitioning towards a sustainable food system, taking into account the challenges of human health, conservation of natural resources and biodiversity and empowering communities to adapt to climate change. The circular production systems are planned to ensure zero waste – whatever is regarded as trash from one process is utilized as raw material for another.

This Program provides a platform for a Circular Brokerage Mechanism to bridge Nile Bioeconomic Innovations Limited with other companies in innovative collaboration with culture of circularity and eco-innovation and reducing supply chain risks by creating a sustainable market through peer to peer sourcing among different product manufacturers and service providers. This program will eventually lead to cleaner cities where virtually all the so-called waste can be recycled – leading to responsible production systems where effluent is treated and preserved as raw material – and creating thousands of research and innovation opportunities and jobs for the youth. 

The importance of biomass and bioenergy in Uganda cannot be overemphasized. Close to 90% of total energy demand is derived from biomass, and NBI’s Comprehensive Bioenergy Program is primarily intended to modernize the processing and delivery of this vast energy potential.

As the principal source of energy for household, commercial and industrial use it goes without saying that the sustainable exploitation of biomass is an issue of national importance; it cannot be left to chance. NBI’s Comprehensive Bioenergy Program will ensure that the appropriate resources (human, financial and technological) are attracted across the value chain of the reorganized industry to ensure sufficient production and proper utilization of the biomass resource for social, economic and environmental sustainability. To achieve this goal, there is need for universal understanding of the issues at stake and collective responsibility by all stakeholders. 

NBI’s Comprehensive Bioenegry Program is providing an interactive platform to enable on-going collaboration between the key players – Private Sector partners, Government Agencies, Regional and International Development Agencies, Research and Academic Institutions, Financiers, Technology suppliers and many more.

There is rising demand for fuels derived from plants as a source of renewable energy. The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA), describes modern bioenergy as the “overlooked giant” of renewables, predicting that it will outpace solar, wind and hydropower in the next five years. Technologies for generating electricity from biomass are getting cheaper and making this scenario all the more plausible.

What is more, NBI’s Comprehensive Bioenergy Program will bring you closer to realizing the carbon emission reduction potential of your action at all levels of the value chain.

PELLETS AND PELLET STOVES PROJECT

NBI is planting and encouraging local farmers and large scale land owners to plant fast growing and quick coppicing indigenous trees species on a short rotation of 5 years to maintain sustainable and sustained quantities of raw material for the production of un-carbonized pellets. Some of these tree species include wetland friendly and dry land acacia species, some of which have been wiped out from their natural ecosystems due to demand for charcoal. The pellets will be utilized to reduce the quantity of charcoal and raw fuel wood used as the conventional and long outdated fuel for cooking in households and institutions. The modernized process for making pellets will also utilize other forms of biomass such as invasive plant species and residual crop waste which will now have commercial value for the farmers. Previously, such high value raw material was burnt as trash, leading to avoidable black carbon pollutants in the atmosphere where they have global warming and climate forcing impacts.

When land is cleared for agriculture, DO NOT BURN the “trash”. If you burn, you will produce dangerous black carbon pollution, you lose money and you endanger the soil microorganisms and other biodiversity.