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Katrin is an energy entrepreneur and pioneer of the African biogas sector. Since founding (B)energy in Ethiopia in 2014, where she established the continent's first local manufacturing site for (B)energy biogas systems, she has expanded the company to 13 African countries, funded entirely through commercial revenues with no aid or external investment.

That model is a statement as much as a strategy. In a sector long distorted by subsidies and aid dependency, Katrin has demonstrated that clean energy businesses in Africa can stand on their own, and that they deserve the conditions to do so. To address the structural barriers that prevent this at scale, she founded the BiogasUnite network, connecting biogas entrepreneurs across the continent, and developed ccCASH, Africa's first clean cooking currency, now being introduced in partnership with the AEC and African governments to establish "clean cooking as a service" to climate and society, rather than a charity — and to create the fair market conditions that allow it to last.