Webinar announcement: 'Uganda Utility eCooking project – lessons from introducing 1,500 EPCs in GKMA and early data insights'

Registration is open for the forthcoming webinar ‘Uganda Utility eCooking project – lessons from introducing 1,500 EPCs in GKMA and early data insights’, to be held on Wednesday 27 November 2024, from 11:00-12:30 GMT.

Webinar overview:

In 2022, Umeme approached MECS about the possibility of a utility-led EPC pilot project, having been inspired by the Uganda eCookbook, which aims to raise awareness that eCooking is the most time and cost-effective method to cook typical Ugandan dishes. Funded by MECS and supported by MEMD, Umeme has procured and distributed 1,500 EPCs in Kampala to staff and customers, partnering with Solageo, and in collaboration with CREEC and the Access to Energy Institute (A2EI). This project aims to create awareness and then demand for eCooking appliances, enabling further suppliers to enter the sector and grow their businesses, while also collecting crucial usage data and opinions on electricity costs from almost 500 participants to evaluate the eCooking tariff introduced by ERA, which could enable creation of a more favourable environment as eCooking is scaled. Valuable insights are already revealing themselves through RCT experiments that send monthly rebates to some participants and provide biweekly SMS updates to others. Through the project, CREEC recently trained 34 technicians in eCooking appliance repair to provide a scalable supportive environment around eCooking adoption. The project is already expanding, with a second EPC order of 2,750 EPCs on its way to Umeme.

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Featured image credit: Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Uganda.