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Update browserBy Jacob Fodio Todd, Gamos Ltd. Recent MECS research has explored the scale of Kenya’s commercial cooking market. Food trolleys are a sizeable, mobile, and…
Read the full article, The Trolley Economy: An Electric Opportunity for Mobile Street Food Vendors in KenyaHosted at the Residence of the British High Commissioner in Dar es Salaam, on 6th August, this event brought together key stakeholders to celebrate achievements…
Read the full article, Tanzania eCooking Scale and Support Programme: Celebrating Progress, Shaping the FutureBy Dr Yesmeen Khalifa (MECS programme, Loughborough University) Put thirty-five people in a room and ask what should happen first to scale eCooking, and the…
Read the full article, Workshop exercise: a role-play of a participatory approach to identifying priority actions for scaling eCooking by 2030 and beyondBy Dr Yesmeen Khalifa (MECS, Loughborough University) and Dr Simon Batchelor, (OBE) (Gamos Ltd. / Loughborough University) The MECS-supported pilot in Got Ngur Village, Nwoya…
Read the full article, Battery swapping for eCooking in Uganda: what the Got Ngur pilot tells us about reaching weak-grid communitiesBackground to the Assignment eCooking has taken a hold in the Tanzanian marketplace. It is strongly supported by the Government of Tanzania in partnership with…
Read the full article, Request for Quotation (RFQ) for the pilot of Local Manufacture of an Innovative eCooker, TanzaniaBy Dr Simon Batchelor (OBE) and Professor Matthew Leach There was a certain irony in discussing climate change while standing in one of the hottest…
Read the full article, Sweltering Heat, Super-Pollutants and Why the Next Twenty Years MatterBy Malcolm Bricknell and Professor Matt Leach (Modern Energy Cooking Services) Clean cooking can be a powerful intervention for improving health, yet proving those health…
Read the full article, Estimating Co-benefit Health Impacts from transitions to Modern Energy CookingDr Yesmeen Khalifa (Loughborough University) and Professor Matt Leach (Gamos Ltd.) The previous blog in this series argued that the global energy crisis is reshaping…
Read the full article, eCooking as an inclusive shield against energy crises and fuel-price shocksBy Jacob Fodio Todd, Richard Sieff & Nigel Scott An in-depth MECS market estimation exercise identifies at least 35,000 commercial cooking businesses and vendors in…
Read the full article, Prospecting Commercial eCooking: Identifying Scalable Investment OpportunitiesBy Dr Steyn Hoogakker and Cedric Dzelu Ga kenkey, also known as kuomi - meaning ‘bite and swallow’ - is much more than a meal…
Read the full article, Can electricity cook Ghana’s beloved kenkey? Early experiments in Accra challenge assumptions about firewoodBy Dr Simon Batchelor (OBE), Prof Matthew Leach, Prof Ed Brown, Dr John Leary For years, clean cooking was treated as a health issue, an…
Read the full article, From “Two Birds” to “Two Loops”: Why Electric Cooking Could Reinvent Energy SystemsBy Dr Amita Bhakta (Independent Researcher), Divya Wesley, Krishna Keshavani and Katha Bhatt (Prabhat Education Foundation) This blog is part of a series documenting the…
Read the full article, Inclusive eCooking and Disability: Rethinking Access, Agency and Energy Justice