Biomass Fueled Off-Grid Combined Heat and Power Plant

By 2050, the world's population will exceed 9 billion, and global food production requirements are estimated to rise by more than 70%, with the largest rises occurring in emerging markets. Worldwide there are 450 million smallholder farmers, they are among some of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable in the developing world - struggling with food security, energy availability, market access, training and climate change.

VIP is commercializing a skid-mounted co-generation plant, the VIP 10-40, with the flexibility to burn a variety of agro-biomass waste to produce off-grid heat and 3-phase power on demand. In addition to fruit and vegetable drying, the VIP 10-40 can power other processing operations including oilseed processing, jaggery (sugar cane), a micro dairy which would pasteurize, chill, and package milk on the farm, and productive power for mini-grids.

VIP launched commercial sales of the VIP 10-40 in Kenya at the end of 2017 with 5 unit sales and a growing sales pipeline. In our first application, mango drying, the cooperative was able to reduce losses by 80% and increase their income by 7x.