The bottle against the axe: LPG versus wood fuel.
In Chad, most meals are still cooked on wood or charcoal: trees felled, hours lost gathering fuel, smoke inhaled with every meal. EnerTchad’s answer fits in a deposit bottle.
Wood fuel is the default energy: the one you take when there is nothing else. Its true price is paid three times — by the forest (trees, gum trees and pastures retreating before desertification), by women and children (hours of gathering, kilometres of carrying), and by health (cooking smoke in closed kitchens). Against that, bottled LPG is one of the most concrete energy transitions there is: clean, immediate, controlled cooking.
The deposit: the model that makes gas affordable
The barrier to LPG is not the flame, it is the entry ticket. EnerTchad’s target model answers with the deposit system: the bottle belongs to the system, the household pays only for the gas. Neighbourhood exchange points — in the heart of districts, anchored to the Tchadium network and its LPG points — swap the empty bottle for a full one in minutes. No queue, no hazardous refilling: a safe circuit, from depot to home.
Biodiversity through the operating account
It is the sentence that sums up our environmental approach: every bottle swapped spares trees. We do not offset deforestation elsewhere — we sell its alternative here. When forest protection is carried by a profitable product, it no longer depends on a subsidy or on goodwill: it grows with the market. Biodiversity defended by the business model, not by compensation.
A whole chain behind every bottle
LPG does not appear by miracle: it comes from gas put to work rather than flared — from the fields and, tomorrow, from Sédigui —, it moves through the distributed reserve, and it reaches remote areas via Mobile Stations™. The kitchen bottle is the last visible link of an integrated chain that starts at the well.
You don’t save a forest with slogans. You save it by making the bottle cheaper than the axe.
And for those the gas does not yet reach
Transition is a path, not a switch: where the bottle has not yet arrived, lamp kerosene remains the basic energy of off-grid households — distributed at the ARSAT price —, and managed biomass (crop residues, briquettes) beats uncontrolled cutting. The GreenTech spectrum covers these steps; the direction does not change: getting Chadian cooking out of forced wood dependency.
As with everything we publish: EnerTchad is a company in formation, and the scheme described is a dated target — exchange points and product ranges in preparation, no assets in operation. The detail lives on the Distribution and Sustainability pages. But the ambition fits in one image: in tomorrow’s Chadian kitchen, the flame will be blue.