The Charcoal Project

Tracking the price of charcoal within a country or region can provide valuable insight for researchers and entrepreneurs.

Such information could help inform the pricing of briquettes, the relative cost of biomass in a region, and much more.

In a few days we will post a section on our website’s homepage where you can track the values of charcoal from reporting countries. The information will be plotted using Google Earth and will also be available in a tabular format.

But in order to do that, we need your help!

Please send us an email with the following information:

1. Location, Country, Date. Multiple locations within a country or region are encouraged.

2. Unit of measure (wt. or volume). We’ll do the conversion on this end.

3. Cost in local currency

4. Optional information: cost of competing biomass fuel. For example, woodfuel or briquettes. And, if at all possible, cost of LPG, kerosene, or whatever the next superior fuel option available locally by volume or weight.

Here’s an example from my native Nicaragua:

1. Location, Country: Granada, Nicaragua

2. Unit of Measure: “Quintal” bag (I think this is roughly 1 bushel (bu) = 2150.42 cu in = 4 pk ≈ 30.283 L)

3. Cost in local currency: C$ 10 Cordobas

4. Not available

Thank you for helping us build this new public feature!

Tagged: Briquets, Charcoal market, Cost of biomass, Valuing Biomass