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Update browserBy Dr. Joni Cook (Loughborough University). In this blog, find out more about pioneering cookstove design and manufacturing company BURN and their innovative ‘ECOA’ electric…
Read the full article, Pioneering advances in the affordability and usability of electric pressure cookers for underserved markets: BURN Manufacturing, KenyaBy Dr Simon Batchelor, Gamos Ltd. MECS has been investigating pressure cooking using renewable energy, such as solar. Pressure cooking is one of the most…
Read the full article, DC conversion kit for cooking appliances, Oxford Product DesignBy Will Coley (University of Strathclyde) and Joni Cook (Loughborough University). It is widely acknowledged that rapidly accelerating the global transition to modern energy cooking…
Read the full article, Scaling up electric cooking: newly launched Global Market Assessment identifies where the greatest opportunities and challenges lieBy Dr. Simon Batchelor (Gamos Ltd.) In April 2020, we circulated a working paper among the MECS team for comment. The paper was made to communicate…
Read the full article, Low Power Electric Pressure Cookers – a discussion of silicon controlled rectifiers?By Jessica Fraser The first of a series of webinars organised by GIZ, GPA and MECS, on the topic of cooking energy in displacement settings,…
Read the full article, Webinar on Cooking Energy in Displacement SettingsBy Dr Simon Batchelor (Gamos Ltd.) When I visited China (in Nov 2019 – which seems a long time ago now!), Nick Rousseau and I…
Read the full article, Mash, Beans and ViscosityBy John Barton (Loughborough University) The MECS eCooking Power Station pilot to explore battery assisted cooking in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda will be deployed in…
Read the full article, Exploring methods to divert excess solar power for water heatingBy Dr. Simon Batchelor (Gamos Ltd.) Readers of our blogs will note that we mainly talk about domestic cooking, and how to pivot those using…
Read the full article, Larger electric pressure cookers for institutionsBy Martin Price, Gamos Ltd. In a recent working paper and accompanying blog for MECS, I argued that the clean cooking sector needs to move…
Read the full article, Facilitating the clean cooking transition in small citiesBy Joni Cook (Loughborough University), Shukri Abdulkadir (Loughborough University), Melinda Barnard-Tallier (Gamos Ltd.) and Jon Leary (Loughborough University). MECS and our Country Partners are delighted…
Read the full article, Feast on a mouth-watering range of dishes shared by MECS partners situated in Cambodia, India, Uganda and Zambia in celebration of World Culture Day 2021By Matt Leach (Gamos Ltd.) Electric cooking is one of the key options for a transition to modern energy cooking services, and SDG7 aims for…
Read the full article, Modelling the costs and benefits of moving to modern energy cooking servicesBy Martin Price (Gamos Ltd.). By 2050, it is projected that there will be 2.5 billion more people living in cities compared to today, and…
Read the full article, Cooking Transitions in Urban Contexts: Researching Beyond the Urban/Rural Binary