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Update browserBy Meron Tesfamichael (University College London), Agnes Naluwagga, Derrick Kiwana (CREEC). In Kampala, preparing a dish of beans stew and matooke (a popular local dish)…
Read the full article, Locating and connecting the dots between cooking and electricity in UgandaBy the Global LPG Partnership WHAT IS BIOLPG? BioLPG is green LPG (bottled gas) produced from renewable resources. The components of bioLPG - biobutane and…
Read the full article, Assessing potential for bioLPG production and use within the cooking energy sector in Africa – a ground-breaking new Report issued by MECS and the Global LPG PartnershipBy William Coley, University of Strathclyde. To better understand the viability of a scale up of electric cooking across the global south[1], the University of…
Read the full article, Global Market Assessment for electric cookingBy Martin Price (Gamos Ltd.) One of the major objectives of the MECS programme is to change the narrative on clean cooking: to treat clean…
Read the full article, How can MECS influence policy?The Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Electric Cooking Outreach (ECO) challenge fund competition is to provide over £826,000 of funding to 14 projects as part…
Read the full article, MECS ECO competition funds 14 projects to the value of £826,000 to facilitate greater uptake and understanding of opportunities for the use of efficient electric cooking appliancesAt the start of the Decade of Action towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and on the occasion of the High Level Political Forum, MECS,…
Read the full article, A call to action to scale up clean cooking at the 2020 High Level Political ForumBy Dr Joni Cook & Dr Jon Leary (MECS team, Loughborough University). In this latest piece of the Leave No-One Behind (LNOB) blog series, we discuss the…
Read the full article, LNOB and the Global LEAP: Ensuring Inclusivity in the Selection of Super-usersBy Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis. The phrase, critical raw materials (CRMs) gets heard a lot in design, but what does this actually…
Read the full article, Critical Raw Materials and their impact on modern energy cooking provisionBy Dr Jaqi Lee, S2A Associates, Sustainability Systems Analysis. The Modern Energy Cooking Services programme (MECS) has been set up to increase the uptake of…
Read the full article, How can environmental assessment contribute to the Modern Energy Cooking agendaBy Dr Simon Batchelor. A new working paper by Prof Ed Brown and myself (S Batchelor), outlines why Covid 19 recovery plans should focus on an…
Read the full article, Cooking Health Energy Environment and Gender (CHEEG) - guiding Covid recovery plansBy Dr Nigel Monk, Dr Richard Blanchard and Dr John Barton (CREST, Loughborough University). Reducing the costs of cooking is one of the enablers to…
Read the full article, To insulate or where to insulate, which is the question? Side-by-side testing to assess the benefits of adding insulation to a commercial electric pressure cookerAs MECS country-level activities increase and expand, it is becoming increasingly relevant for researchers to decipher the policy instruments public institutions use to coordinate and…
Read the full article, Domestic cooking energy markets and the contingent role of public policies