ZES-500
The household system — 3 to 6 cattle
- Gas / day
- 1–1.5 m³
- Cattle
- 3–6
- Cooking
- 3–5 hr
Rs 295,000
incl. GST
Pakistan Innovation Fund Award · Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives
The same three to six animals you already keep will give a household three to five hours of clean cooking gas every day — and organic fertiliser on top. No monthly fuel bill. Designed and manufactured in Pakistan.

Rs 65–75per cooking hour
LPG, firewood, kerosene. Smoke in the kitchen, money out of the house, forest cut down.
Rs 5–12per cooking hour
Gas from dung you already have. Clean flame, no smoke, and fertiliser for the field.
From a working installation
Filmed at a household stove running on a ZES digester. Firewood and LPG burn orange because they burn dirty. Methane burns blue. It is the difference you can see from across the kitchen — and the reason a pot gets hot without coating itself, or the room, in soot.
See the installations
01 — Average annual household benefit on a ZES-500
That dependence costs households money they do not have, costs women hours of every day, and costs the country its forests. ZES converts livestock manure into clean cooking gas and nutrient-rich fertiliser, using a resource rural families already own.
Average annual household benefit on a ZES-500
Typical payback; 2–3 years on conservative assumptions
Firewood saved per household, per year
Cost per cooking hour, against Rs 65–75 on LPG
Figures from the ZES cost–benefit analysis prepared for Mobilink Microfinance Bank. Actual savings vary with household size, livestock, ambient temperature and local fuel prices.
Every digester is sized by the dung it gets each day, and that comes from your animals. Move the slider.
Annual fuel spend for comparison: LPG Rs 168,000 · coal Rs 72,000 · kerosene Rs 66,000 · firewood Rs 54,000. Biogas is the only option here that also returns organic fertiliser.
02 — Three systems, sized by the herd you keep
Each digester is manufactured in Pakistan from UV-resistant HDPE, ships as a modular unit, and includes installation and household training. Prices exclude transport and site works, which vary by location.
The household system — 3 to 6 cattle
Rs 295,000
incl. GST
Large household or community — 8 to 15 cattle
Rs 501,500
incl. GST
Commercial and dairy scale — fixed dome
Rs 1,121,000
incl. GST
Design, manufacture, supply and installation of modular digesters from 500 to 5,000 gallons — UV-resistant HDPE, sized to the livestock a customer already owns.
Households · farms · dairies · institutions
Programme delivery for development partners: baseline survey, livestock assessment, community engagement, household selection, installation, training and monitoring.
NGOs · rural support programmes · provincial governments · donors
Conventional instalment plans at KIBOR +2% to +15%, and Shariah-compliant structures — Murabaha, Ijarah, Diminishing Musharakah and Qarz-e-Hasna — arranged with our banking partners.
Households · farms · village organisations
Waste-to-energy feasibility, site assessment, system sizing, payback modelling, and readiness for carbon and climate finance.
Banks · donors · corporates · government departments
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