Waste-2-Watt: Transforming Off-grid communities through Energy Access

I am Fatima Ademoh, a Mandela Washington Fellow, an energy and finance specialist with over six years of experience in sustainable energy project development, bio-energy mini-grid, nexus between energy access and other components of sustainable development goals, and project financing. Fatima has experience in the Finance, Energy, Education and Agricultural sector. I currently lecture at Baze University and the Project Developer for Waste-2-Watt. , I founded Waste-2-Watt (W2W) with the purpose of increasing access to clean electricity in rural communities and power productive activities. Waste-2-Watt (W2W) is a renewable energy project that focuses on converting agricultural waste (poultry, livestock, crop waste) and communal waste (kitchen and human wastes) into electricity, cooking fuel using a bio-gas digester for off-grid farming communities. In this capacity, I have built a pilot 20KW minigrid biogas to power project and currently building another 10KW minigrid biogas system; both are targeted towards rural off-grid communities in Kuje, Abuja, Nigeria and providing electricity to approximately 1,000 residents. This is the first biogas to power system in Nigeria. . Our solution is contributing to the vision of 100% renewables by harnessing local energy resources which is safe, reliable, affordable and creating pathways for communities off-grid to access electricity.

I have been selected as an SDG talent for the inaugural cohort of the UNLEASH Innovation Lab program and will be spending the next twelve days with 999 other talents from 129 countries in three cities in Denmark (Copehagen, Ringkøbing & Aarhus) working to develop sustainable and innovative solutions to the SDG’s. I will be focusing on SDG 7 “Affordable & Clean Energy for All”. My areas of interest in energy issues are; access to clean energy for off-grid communities, energy finance and integration of clean energy into the national energy mix. I look forward to working with other energy talents in addressing these issues and developing scalable solutions to the SDG’s.

Cheers!

Fatima Ademoh