Kristy Moore is a leading authority on motor fuel quality, regulatory, safety, and environmental aspects, specializing in renewable and alternative fuels. Kristy is well known and respected throughout the industry for her depth of knowledge and expertise on gasoline and gasoline-ethanol blends. She is continuously developing opportunities for increased renewable fuel and chemical usage in domestic and global markets. Very active in ASTM International, she chairs the DO2 petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants subcommittee 93 on international standards and related activities and chairs a subcommittee in committee E48 bioenergy and industrial chemicals from biomass.

On today's show, Kristy lends her insight on standards to inform us about the world of standards in general and why they are important, especially in regard to how critical they are for the nascent bioethanol cooking industry. She will also share some of her firsthand experience helping to shape and implement the current bioethanol cooking fuel standard through ASTM and her optimism for the future of the sector. Get excited about standards and their impact by listening to Kristy's passion and expertise.

Mr. Jossy Thomas serves as an Industrial Development Officer and leads the Bioenergy Programme at the Just Energy Transition Unit of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). With over 25 years of international technical cooperation experience with UN-ESCAP and UNIDO, he has been actively involved in promoting universal energy access in developing countries. Currently, his focus lies on scaling up modern clean cooking solutions in developing countries and coordinating the Secretariat of the Council On Ethanol Clean Cooking (CECC), a network platform comprising 21 member countries dedicated to clean cooking initiatives.

We dive deep into international development efforts in this episode, hearing about Jossy’s start with UNIDO developing some of the first mini-grids in Nigeria at the forefront of the clean energy transition. Today, UNIDO is supporting, among many of their efforts, bioethanol cooking projects, and we will hear about the program in Tanzania, as well as the new endeavor in Madagascar. We will also discuss why clean cooking transitions are so difficult and outline the three top opportunities to make a meaningful shift toward access to these technologies. Lastly, we will learn a little more about the Council on Ethanol Clean Cooking - a new initiative started at COP28, as well as recent global movement in clean cooking commitments, motivated by a Clean Cooking in Africa Summit, hosted by the IEA this month. It’s a packed episode with insights from an industry veteran that you won’t want to miss!

Boris Atanassov is the founding director of GreenLight Africa, a regional consultancy firm with a base in Mozambique and specializing in energy and environment. He has over 14 years of experience in research, project management and business development. Boris holds a Master of Science from Stockholm University specializing in Energy Transition, focusing Renewable Energy, Bio-energy, Climate Financing and Market Development as well as Social and Environmental Impact Assessment. He has strong experience in developing feasibility studies, market research, policy analysis, institutional capacity building, developing business plans and managing projects within the mentioned fields.

Today we are coming to our final continent in our travels around the world, looking at bioethanol production, policies, and potential, and we are landing in Africa. We are going to have a more personal look at Mozambique, where GreenLight is based, as a representative view of Africa, but we will also hear about the continent as a whole and what bioethanol production and use currently look like. We will hear about countries that have begun implementing bioethanol and what the potential for expansion could look like across transportation and cooking sectors, as well as the three key elements in really helping the industry develop. Join us as we head to Africa to look at clean fuels!