Raju Shrestha
Restaurant manager
Bhairahawa, Nepal
Raju runs his popular restaurant on clean, sustainable biogas. Biogas is often used in households to replace kerosene, a fossil fuel with a higher carbon footprint. It is made using an all-natural process called anaerobic digestion to turn manure from livestock into energy. A nationwide effort to construct 340 large-scale biogas plants is enabling more businesses to use this clean, renewable fuel, reducing carbon emissions, and supporting local suppliers of reliable energy.
Siddharthanagar, Nepal
Nepal is helping address longstanding energy challenges through biogas, a clean power source derived from organic waste. With support from CIF, the World Bank, and other partners, the country is building 340 new commercial biogas plants across 10 municipalities, creating jobs, and replacing the equivalent of around 131,000 cylinders of imported propane. By helping break down barriers to private sector participation in the sector, the initiative is creating enough biogas to fill more than three Olympic-size swimming pools every day.