Key Barriers to the Adoption of Biomass Gasification in Burkina Faso

Fanta Barry, Marie Sawadogo, Maïmouna Bologo (Traoré), Igor W. K. Ouédraogo and Thomas Dogot
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Fanta Barry: Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (LabEREE), International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso
Marie Sawadogo: Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (LabEREE), International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso
Maïmouna Bologo (Traoré): Department of Human, Social and Managerial Sciences (SHSM), International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso
Igor W. K. Ouédraogo: Laboratory of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (LabEREE), International Institute of Water and Environmental Engineering (Institute 2iE), Ouagadougou 01 BP 594, Burkina Faso
Thomas Dogot: Department of Economic and Rural Development, Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech, University of Liège, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-14

Abstract: The industrial sector in Burkina Faso faces two significant energy challenges access to efficient energy sources that are also renewable. Pyrolysis and gasification are emerging as conversion pathways that exploit available agricultural and industrial biomass. Pyrolysis has been adopted successfully, whereas gasification failed without getting beyond the experimental stage. This article assesses potential barriers to the adoption of gasification based on interviews with the stakeholders of the energy sector (users, NGOs, policy makers). We use pyrolysis as a benchmark to point out the barriers to adoption. The hierarchical analysis process (AHP) method was applied to identify the most significant barriers to the adoption of gasification. Twenty-seven barriers were identified and prioritized in two dimensions and five categories “technical”, “economic and financial”, “socio-cultural and organizational”, “political, governmental and institutional”, and “ecological and geographical” barriers. The category of socio-cultural and organizational barriers emerged as the most critical in the adoption of gasification. This category deserves special consideration to go past the pilot installation stage and adopting this technology.

Keywords: socio-cultural lock-in; Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP), adoption barriers; biomass gasification; Burkina Faso (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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