Burkina Faso: First privately developed biogas plant

Supported by Dutch finance, private developer Fasogaz’s subsidiary Fasobiogaz has installed a 275kW biogas plant in Ouagadougou’s Kossodo industrial area. In a first for Burkina Faso, the unit will initially supply some 4,100 households, and is intended to scale up to 1.4MW capacity by 2017 (supplying up to 22,700 households), according to Fasogaz’s Dutch promoter Gilbert Brenninkmeyer. Feedstock for the 40t/d digester comes from organic waste produced by Société de Gestion de l’Abattoir de Ouagadougou’s slaughterhouse, brewer Brasseries du Burkina, farmers and waste collectors.