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Update browserBy Dr. Simon Batchelor OBE (GAMOS Ltd./Loughborough University) Africa has invested billions in electricity generation, transmission and access over the past two decades. Much-needed infrastructure…
Read the full article, Africa's Energy Infrastructure: Did the Investments Deliver What They Promised?By Lawrence Lin, Gianluca Tonolo, Sarah Wykes. Since 2018, MECS has been demonstrating that the transition to modern electric cooking is realistic, cost-effective and ready…
Read the full article, Accelerating eCooking transitions through effective sub-national planningBy TaTEDO-SESO. Introduction On 22 August 2026, President Samia Suluhu Hassan stood at Stiegler's Gorge on the Rufiji River and formally inaugurated the Julius Nyerere…
Read the full article, Powering Tanzania’s Clean Cooking Transformation: How JNHPP Can Accelerate National DevelopmentBy the TaTEDO-SESO Communications Team. In August 2026, TaTEDO-SESO and SESCOM teams carried the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) message from a landmark showcase in…
Read the full article, Accelerating Clean Energy Adoption: A Month of Sparking Changes in TanzaniaBy Dr Simon Batchelor (OBE), Gamos Ltd. / Loughborough University This blog takes some of the learning from a new paper “Factors associated with continued…
Read the full article, Modern cooking does not end at adoption: what a recent study on LPG by the Clean-Air (Africa) Research Group can teach us about eCookingBy Eva Idugboe (Loughborough University). New York, 6 to 9 July 2026 The 2026 High-level Political Forum marked the final in-depth review of SDG 7…
Read the full article, Reflections from HLPF 2026: MECS insights on energy security, inclusive energy and electric cookingBy Prof. Ed Brown (Loughborough University / MECS Programme/CCG), Eng. Anne Wacera Wambugu (Strathmore SCES) and James Miano Wanjiru (Strathmore SCES) Transitioning one million Kenyan…
Read the full article, Beyond Energy Access: eCooking, Reliability, and the Last Few MetresBy Dr. Simon Batchelor OBE (Gamos Ltd. / Loughborough University). Electricity access statistics tell us whether a household is connected. They tell us much less…
Read the full article, Household energy spending across the connected in three countriesBy 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 KenyaBy 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 communitiesSeven years of eCooking research, three decades of community trust. By TaTEDO-SESO. At five o'clock most mornings in rural Hai District, Kilimanjaro, a woman is…
Read the full article, Powering Equality: How Electric Cooking is Transforming Women, Families and Communities in Tanzania