Love is where the budget is
Inter-ministerial debate and cooperation – the role of the legislator. By Dr Simon Batchelor. The Climate Parliament working with Wilton Park are able to convene…
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By Dr Nigel Monk, CREST Our earlier blogpost, The Joy of Tests, introduced some rationale behind testing system elements such as cooking appliances in a…
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By Dr Nigel Monk, CREST Why are CREST performing technical tests? The ‘Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology’ (aka MECS_Techs to our friends, which includes…
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By Dr Simon Batchelor In a previous blog I noted that Ockwell et al had developed the paper TRANSFORMING ACCESS TO CLEAN TECHNOLOGY: LEARNING FROM…
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By Dr Simon Batchelor In the paper TRANSFORMING ACCESS TO CLEAN TECHNOLOGY: LEARNING FROM LIGHTING AFRICA, David Ockwell, Rob Byrne, Victoria Chengo, Elsie Onsongo, Jacob Fodio Todd and Joanes…
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David Ockwell, Professor of Geography, University of Sussex MECS aims to transform access to modern energy cooking services within the next 5 years. The programme…
Read the full article, Transformative innovation is 5 dimensional, not 2 dimensionalElectric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) in Kenya: a huge untapped opportunity
by Jon Leary, Agnes Kalyonge & Monica Kalyonge The future looks bright for electric cooking in Kenya, with Jikoni Magic, Hotpoint Appliances Ltd. and KPLC…
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By Dr Jon Cloke Since the roll-out of the MECS programme earlier in 2019, a range of different opportunities have presented themselves within other energy…
Read the full article, MECS and designing Energy Access courses for African Universities - the Learning Partnership Workshop in NairobiWhy understanding real cooks is fundamental to going Beyond Fire
Dr Jon Leary & Dr Simon Batchelor HIVOS and the World Future Council have published a new report in their Beyond Fire series (Couture and…
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By Dr Meron Tesfamichael. June 2019. During a visit to Uganda, Meron Tesfamichael from STEaPP UCL, was asked to comment on a draft ‘theory of…
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By Dr Nigel Scott, Gamos Khayelitsha, South Africa, 2002. Copyright, N Scott. At the recent LCEDN conference, Ben Campbell described the nature of displaced communities…
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Dr Nigel Scott, Gamos (Nigel is a Co-Investigator on the newly announced MECS programme) I was at a meeting for the design challenge being organised…
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