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Update browserBy 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 TanzaniaBy Neh Satsangi and Kumar Satyam (Finovista). MECS has supported research, pilots, and knowledge development to accelerate the transition towards clean and modern electric cooking…
Read the full article, MECS in India resourcesBy Dr. Yesmeen Khalifa (MECS), Dr. Md. Shakhaoat Hossain, Sanjida Ahmed, Rakib Hossain, Afsana Yasmin, Sayed Mohammad Rasel, Most. Zannatul Ferdous (Jahangirnagar University), Dr. Progress…
Read the full article, Challenges and Opportunities for eCooking in Informal Settlements: Case Studies from Zambia and BangladeshBy 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 TaTEDO SESO. Tanzania is at a defining inflection point in its clean cooking transition, moving decisively from pilot-scale innovation to nationally coordinated scale-up. At…
Read the full article, From Evidence to Action: How Tanzania's eCooking Transition is Accelerating Toward ScaleBy Jane Spencer, Anna Clements and Charles Barnabas In November 2024, MECS announced the Tanzania eCooking Scale and Support Programme to seed and support the delivery of a sustained transition to eCooking. Since then, considerable change has taken…
Read the full article, Completion of Tanzania eCooking Scale and Support Programme - Phase 1By 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 Systems