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Green Energy: Will biogas survive the road to 2030?

Alternative energy: Kagiso, a Biogas Digester Beneficiary feeds cow dung into his Biogas Digester at Gatumo Cattle Post PIC: SHARON TSHIPA
Alternative energy: Kagiso, a Biogas Digester Beneficiary feeds cow dung into his Biogas Digester at Gatumo Cattle Post PIC: SHARON TSHIPA

“We are building a mammoth!” says Atamelang Matale, her eyes in a happy dance. “This is the biggest biogas digester I am constructing to date.”

Her voice is loud. It rises above the din of splashing water, the grating and clanking of shovels scooping and throwing concrete mix into a water-filled wheelbarrow. The end result is a grey porridge subsequently dumped into a digester pit pre-laid with welded wire mesh.

The 29-year-old Matale is a biogas digester mason trained through a project in Botswana funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Editor's Comment
Accounting officers should be held accountable

Particular trepidations lie with the seemingly embedded nature of embellishing tender sums, in most cases without the barest minimum of authority. The worrying thing is that the inflated amounts run into millions of pula across the government ministries and departments. The Auditor General’s report of March ending 2022, which we cover extensively in this edition, paints a gloomy picture on management of the government coffers. It depicts the...

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