Shutdown of Kenya’s Koko biofuel firm wipes out clean cooking options

With Koko Networks shutting down its bioethanol fuel distribution system across Kenya, more than 3,000 Koko fuel points now stand idle, cutting off fuel access for over 1.5 million households that relied on the pay-as-you-go cooking system.

The shutdown followed the company’s failure to secure government authorization to sell carbon credits and obtain import permits for bioethanol. Without those approvals, Koko said its business model…