The cooking-energy market in Nigeria is dominated by the wood, charcoal and tradi tional-stoves value chains. However, a growing number of private-sector actors operate in Nigeria’s clean-cooking space. LPG, improved biomass cookstoves (ICS) and renewable-fu el value chains are emerging nationwide.
The LPG sector is almost entirely financed by the private sector and its policy and enabling environment has greatly improved. The ICS sector, though still strongly reliant on carbon finance, public funds or donor grants, has made important progress in developing and testing appropriate solutions and business models. Firms are also operating in larger numbers and reaching more households each year. While the rate of market growth is still far from able to support a scale-up phase, it is estimated that several tens of thousands of Nigerian households are shifting to cleaner fuels or efficient stoves yearly.
The goal of this study is to provide a knowledge base for the design of supply-side-focused interventions that would strengthen the “business ecosystem” (as defined in Box 1) for clean cooking and ultimately contribute to the scale-up of cleancooking adoption in Nigeria.
