Committed to Facilitating Access to Sustainable Energy Services for All in Tanzania
Whether you drive an economy car or an SUV, there are plenty of ways to improve your gas mileage. Avoid aggressive driving and observe the speed limit. Speeding, fast acceleration, and hard braking wastes gas. Lighten your load by clearing your car of extra weight, and remove roof racks or carriers if not used frequently.
Cooking with Highly Efficient Electric Pressure Cooker is thirteen times cheaper than charcoal and it cooks in half the time withoutany stirring or topping up ofwater or fuels
Keep current with car maintenance—clean air filters can improve gas mileage by as much as 10%. Properly inflated and aligned tires will improve gas mileage by 3%. Using the wrong grade of oil can reduce mileage by 1% to 2%. For longer-term savings, consider a high-mileage vehicle for your next purchase.
An energy audit will show you which areas of home use most energy and help you decide the most effective way to reduce energy costs. You can conduct a simple audit yourself, contact local utility, or call an independent energy auditor for a more comprehensive examination. Check home's insulation levels, and check for open fireplace dampers.
If you are in the off-grid area, there is possibility of continuing to enjoy cellular phone communication services by charging them using solar energy phone chargers. The solar phone chargers are of different forms but the large chargers are suitable for rural phone charging business while small chargers are for individual use.
Solar pool heating systems are very efficient and can cuts costs for heating swimming pools or hot tubs. The easiest way to take advantage of solar power is to buy electricity generated by renewable sources from your local utility. Under certain conditions, installing PV cells might be right for you.
Keep current with car maintenance—clean air filters can improve gas mileage by as much as 10%. Properly inflated and aligned tires will improve gas mileage by 3%. Using the wrong grade of oil can reduce mileage by 1% to 2%. For longer-term savings, consider a high-mileage vehicle for your next purchase.
If you use air-conditioning, set your thermostat as high as comfortably possible in the summer. The less difference between the indoor and outdoor temperatures, the lower your overall cooling bill will be. Don't set thermostat at a colder setting than normal when you turn it on.
Look for holes or cracks around doors, light and plumbing fixtures, and other places where air may leak into or out of home. Make sure appliances and heating and cooling systems are properly maintained, and study family's lighting needs and use patterns, paying special attention to high-use areas.
Use compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs); they are much more efficient than incandescent bulbs and last 6 to 10 times longer. CFLs are more expensive than incandescent bulbs, but they pay for themselves by saving energy over their lifetime.
Whether someone want to use charcoal for cooking at home or for business, there is need for cutting monthly costs of buying charcoal. Nowadays, there is an option of using improved charcoal saving stoves. The thermal efficiencies of these stoves range from 30 to 44 percent. The higher the thermal efficiency of stove, the higher capacity for saving charcoal.
TaTEDO-SESO and SESCOM are in the process of supporting the transition to electromobility (e-mobility) through electric three-wheelers to contribute to the efforts of replacing the fossil fuel three-wheelers in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. E-three-wheelers are the priority of combating climate change and transitioning to e-mobility because they are considered to be the fastest-growing mode of transportation in growing economies.
TaTEDO-SESO and SESCOM started by retrofitting fossil fuel three-wheelers and changing three of them into electric three-wheelers. This was followed by importing and assembling other twenty electric three-wheelers. The assembled three-wheelers have similar driving characteristics to the current fossil-fuel three-wheelers, the only change is in the powering system.
The number of electric three-wheelers is increasing in public transport and it is convenient transportation for passengers since they are affordable and noise- or pollution-free transport. It is vital to investigate the prospects that electric three-wheelers possess to facilitate a robust integration in public transport. These vehicles play a significant role in transport for short distances and intra-city transport systems in almost all major and minor cities in Bangladesh. They fill the gap created because of either the lack of conventional public transport or their substandard performance. These vehicles have low operating and initial costs resulting in a pretty reasonable fare for the riders, and passengers can have their desired noiseless and smoke-free journey.
SESCOM electric three-wheelers can carry up to six people at a time. Sharing the ride is one of the distinctive features that may make this transport more popular, as it reduces per-head fare for the passengers. They have also become a viable source of employability for many people.
Read more: Electric Three-Wheelers a Step Towards Better and Greener Future
TaTEDO SESO is one of the organizations, promoting clean cooking services in Africa based in Tanzania. The organization is striving to boost access to clean cooking with a series of new ideas of using different energy carriers such as electricity, biomass, and solar energy sources which are locally obtained from Africa.
The organization representative will soon accompany the Tanzania Delegation to the African Summit on Clean Cooking. President Samia Suluhu Hassan will lead a Tanzania delegation to the Summit that will be held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 14 May 2024. The President will co-chair the Summit alongside the Prime Minister of Norway H.E. Jonas Gahr Støre, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency Dr. Fatih Birol, and the President of the African Development Bank Group Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina.
Various leaders from the world are expected to attend the Summit which is a key forum in amplifying the call to make 2024 the pivotal year for addressing the lack of clean cooking in Africa.
The Summit takes place as the world is falling behind on its goal to deliver affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. Clean cooking has seen an alarming lack of progress, with nearly four in five African people still cooking their meals over open fires and traditional stoves using polluting fuels.
“The lack of access to clean cooking has dire consequences for health, the climate, and gender equality, contributing to nearly half a million premature deaths of women and children annually in Africa alone,” says a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). The cost of improving access to clean cooking issue is relatively small, with the IEA estimating that just USD 4 billion of capital investments would be required annually to achieve clean cooking access for all African people by 2030.
Read more: TaTEDO-SESO in the Delegation to the Summit on Clean Cooking in AfricaAccess TaTEDO Publicly - available documents and reports.
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