Innovative Solar Energy Technology for Kenyan Tea Industry (InSET4KTI)

两个英国行业EnSO和CoolSky，一个肯尼亚行业Eenovators和一个英国大学Brunel University伦敦（BUL）之间的合作InSET 4KTI项目旨在提供一种彻底创新的紧凑型太阳能热技术，利用肯尼亚丰富的太阳能资源，为肯尼亚茶叶行业提供所需的热能。肯尼亚茶叶发展署（KTDA）管理的67家茶厂由于监管、经济和环境要求，在替代目前使用的木材燃料方面面临着严峻的挑战。InSET 4KTI太阳能技术是一种具有成本效益和技术可行的解决方案。InSET 4KTI项目将在KTDA的Kagwe茶厂（KTF）设计，制造和安装原型太阳能场。KTF的成功示范将使KTDA的所有67家工厂能够推广太阳能热技术，为560，000名小农提供直接的成本节约途径，这些小农根据他们提供的茶叶集水区的盈利能力获得奖金-因此，茶叶生产能源成本的任何降低都将导致农民收入的增加。这笔赠款将为非洲和全球茶叶行业的太阳能加热技术提供机会，从而发展英国的太阳能业务。

The collaborative InSET4KTI project among two UK industries EnSO and CoolSky, one Kenyan industry, Eenovators, and one UK university, Brunel University London (BUL), aims to deliver a radically innovative compact solar thermal technology to harness Kenya’s vast solar resource to supply heating energy required in the Kenyan tea sector. Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) managed 67 tea factories are facing serious challenges to replace currently used wood fuel due to regulatory, economic and environmental requirements. The InSET4KTI solar technology is proposed as a cost effective and technologically viable solution. InSET4KTI project will design, manufacture and install a prototype solar field at KTDA’s Kagwe Tea Factory (KTF). A successful demonstration at KTF will enable rolling out solar thermal technology to all 67 KTDA factories providing a direct route to pass cost savings to 560,000 smallholder farmers who receive a bonus payment based upon the profitability of the tea catchment they supply – any reduction in the energy cost of tea production will therefore result in increased incomes to farmers. This grant will unleash an opportunity for solar heat technology in African and global tea industry, growing UK’s solar energy business.