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Powering Liberia's underserved urban neighborhoods and remote communities for sustainable economic growth and inclusive social progress
CIVIC ENERGY
Civic Energy is created from our rural development initiative Liberia's Energy Accessibility Program (LEAP). Over the next ten years, we will be developing centralized and decentralized biogas plants to provide clean and renewable energy to on-grid and off-grid communities across Liberia. It is part of our development approach to build sustainable carbon-neutral communities in Africa starting from Liberia.
This program will meet the following United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals: Affordable and Clean Energy, Clean Water and Sanitation, Sustainable Cities and Communities, Decent Work and Economic Growth, Zero Hunger, Good Health and Wellbeing, Reduced Inequalities, Life on Land, Life Below Water and Partnerships for Goals
The Problem
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Liberia has one of the lowest electricity access rates in the world with less than 8 percent of households connected to the National Grid
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After the civil war, Liberia's electricity infrastructure was destroyed, and as a result about 10 percent of urban residents and less than 2 percent of rural Liberia had electricity access in 2003 that was produced by costly and efficient private generators
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Presently only 27.5 percent of Liberia's 5 million population has access to electricity while less than 7 percent of the population in Monrovia has regular access to reliable and affordable electricity.
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The economy is severely constrained by a lack of access to reliable and affordable energy.
Our Solution
We are generating clean and renewable energy to provide energy and electricity to urban and remote communities across Liberia. Through our LEAP program, Civic Energy will be producing biogas as a renewable energy source to build mini-grids to provide electricity to urban households from our waste treatment plants and build community-owned biogas plants in remote communities to fuel innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainable agriculture that will lead to both urban and rural job creation and sustainable economic growth.
The benefits of our clean energy accessibility program are residual and multi-purpose. Providing affordable clean and renewable cooking fuels and electricity to households across Liberia will end the cutting and burning of trees to create biomass for energy, which causes environmental degradation of the country's rainforest. Moreover, it also provides self-sustainable sanitation and household and wastewater management to over 80 percent of the population that currently live without any sanitation system. We will also create treated biofertilizers that can be used to fertilize farms and increase soil nutrients to increase local food production which increases the income of farmers.
