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Update browserBy Prof. Ed Brown, MECS Research Director. Building on some of the issues raised in the current MECS newsletter, our colleague Dymphna van der Lans,…
Read the full article, The critical urgency for advancing clean cooking solutions in light of the Covid-19 pandemicWritten by TaTEDO (Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Organization, MECS Southern Partner), about their activities in February and March 2020. Find out more about related eCooking…
Read the full article, Modern Energy Cooking Services in Tanzania: eCookbooks, eCooking demos and government lobbyingby Jon Leary, Agnes Kalyonge, Monica Kalyonge, Hannah Blair, Sam Grant and Max Garnick. These solar eRecipes are designed to tackle the widespread perception that…
Read the full article, Solar eRecipes - establishing the minimum viable product for solar electric cookingFundamental components of an EPC. The latest paper authored by members of the MECS team highlights the emerging opportunity for manufacturers to enter the largely…
Read the full article, Untapped opportunities: markets for efficient electric cooking appliance manufacturing in East and Southern AfricaBy Dr Simon Batchelor Photo credit: IRENA assembly. As the IRENA assembly gathered in Abu Dhabi there was both good news and worrying news. The…
Read the full article, The decade of renewable energyEd Brown, Yabei Zhang and Rohit Khanna represented MECS at COP25 in Madrid. Here they are speaking with Samira Bawumia, Second Lady of Ghana and…
Read the full article, MECS at COP25By Dr Jon Cloke, Addis Ababa 06.11.2019. As part of its general outreach and despite the shadow of Brexit creeping ever closer, the UK MECS…
Read the full article, MECS and the African Union Commission - EU PartnershipPlease refer to the article below for discussion of the results of a recent survey of households in Uttar Pradesh, India, which showed that the…
Read the full article, Electric cooking starts to simmer in rural Indiaby Mourine Chepkemoi, Jon Leary, Victoria Chengo, Jacob Fodio Todd & Karen Chepkurui On 14th -15th May 2019, Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) was officially…
Read the full article, MECS East Africa LaunchBy Dr Simon Batchelor I recently chaired the third LPG for Development Summit co-organized by the Global LPG Partnership and World LPG Association, a one day side event at the 32nd World LPG Forum &…
Read the full article, LPG as an interim step towards clean cooking: notes from The 32nd World LPG Forum & 2019 European CongressMonday 23 September 2019. British scientists and innovators are able to access up to £1 billion of aid funding to develop and test new technology…
Read the full article, Press release from the British Council: up to £1 billion of aid funding has been made available to unleash the talent of British scientists and global innovators to tackle climate change.By Dr Jon Cloke Solshare is one of the pioneers in peer-to-peer electricity trading, funded by European utilities interested in the core concept of the…
Read the full article, The art of sharing - MECS visit to SolShare