$400m boost for Kenya’s universal access to clean cooking push

Kenya’s bid to achieve universal access to clean cooking energy by 2030 is set to get a boost from $400 million in investments and tax relief.

The government of East Africa’s largest economy plans to invest more than $200 million to build facilities to handle and store liquefied petroleum gas, according to Energy Secretary Davis Chirchir. That’s in addition to a $200 million LPG facility that Tanzanian businessman Rostam Aziz’s company, Taifa Gas, begun constructing in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa last week.

The government’s plan involves setting up a 45,000-ton facility in Mombasa as it moves to make clean cooking gas more affordable and available to households in Kenya, where about 70% of the population relies on wood fuel to prepare meals, Chirchir said in an interview. State-controlled Kenya Pipeline Co. will begin developing the LPG storage and bottling facilities at the government’s defunct oil refinery in the