National Biodigester Conference Esther Altorfer and Cedrick Todwell, Kenya Country Director and Commercial Director respectively, participated on August 21 and 22 in the 2019 National Biodigester Conference and Exhibition hosted by the Kenya Biogas Program at Pride Inn Hotel, Westlands. Esther and Cedrick were part of two panels building the case around biogas and financing platforms. This was an outstanding
Nestlé Pilot Project in Mexico The Mexican team and Nestlé partnered this summer to implement a pilot program that will impact small and medium-sized livestock farmers. In this first stage, we aim to install 100 biodigesters in the Jalisco region, after which we plan to expand into other regions where Nestlé Mexico has operations. The beneficiaries are part of Nestlé’s
We won the Ashden Awards 2019! We won the Ashden Clean Cooking Award as part of the first-ever London Climate Action Week. Six years ago we applied to the Ashden Awards, but at that time, Sistema.bio was not a global company. Based in Mexico, our founders Camilo Pagés and Alex Eaton used to build the biodigesters in a garage! This
By Alexander Eaton Sistema.bio has received the 2019 Ashden Clean Cooking Award, recognizing our work to bring clean energy to farmers in Latin America, Africa and India. With over 7,000 farms around the world using our biogas technology to turn waste to energy, our scale, team and technology set us apart from the other clean cooking alternatives. This is an
By Alex Eaton If you are unsure where to start on Earth Day, try food. The impact of what you eat, where you buy it and who grew it matters more than you may realize. Agriculture accounts for about a quarter of human global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. 80% of the land that is managed by humans if for growing
On February 15, the Ashden Awards announced us as part of the longlist for this year’s edition. We are now finalists in the category “Clean Cooking”. This list showed many organizations that are making a difference through sustainable energy projects. We’re part of the movement that aims to change the world. The Ashden team made a two-day field visit to
Sistema.bio family is growing! This Q1 had significant achievements, including the incorporation of new leadership positions to the team. In Mexico city headquarters, Graciela Álvarez took the leadership as LATAM director, and she will be consolidating Mexico, Nicaragua and Colombia HUBS operations with new commercial strategies to maximize Sistema.bio impact in the North, Central, and South America. In addition, David
In February, we had two Salesforce–Taro module launches: new simplified sales, loan and tech forms; and an inventory management solution. Our IT Team continues to improve our systems, the simplified forms were re-designed to collect high-quality data relevant to our work so we can improve our users’ satisfaction. Also, the new inventory management solution has allowed us to have access
Second investment round We are pleased to announce that we are on track to closing a 12M USD investment round that will fund Sistema.bio’s growth and optimization for the coming years. We are proud to have the following investors and creditors already committed to the round: DILA Capital, ENGIE Rassembleurs d’Energies, EU Electrifi Fund, Lendahand, Triodos Bank and AlphaMundi. We
To the date we have sold more than 6,500 biodigesters, our goal for 2019 is to sell 5,000 more. 2019 is the Game Changer year for Sistema.bio, we have strategic plans to grow as a company. We expect to bring clean and renewable energy and biofertilizer to more than 60,000 people over the world by the end of 2019. For
