Influencing policy and investment

• Transformed the investment strategies of governments and investment banks in support of SDG7 - shifting focus from improved biomass cookstoves to modern clean energy alternatives.
• Developed a Gold Standard verified methodology with ClimateCare, enabling projects supplying clean, energy-efficient cookers to use carbon finance to help fund their work.
• Innovative financial programmes - including EnDev and Beyond The Grid Africa - are now incorporating concessional finance for electric cooking devices into their programmes
• Policy work has supported a planned roll out of 50,000 energy efficient appliances in Nepal and the launch of a cooking tariff in Uganda.
• Our pioneering eCookbooks package supports households, utility companies and policy-makers to make better informed decisions about energy and cooking
• Launched the Global Electric Cooking Coalition (GeCCo) alongside global partners at COP28 to address the need to reduce carbon outputs generated by traditional cooking methods.
• Developed a multi-dimensional framework to assess and monitor gender equality, equity and women’s empowerment in modern energy cooking services, helping investors, donors, funders, and impact buyers compare projects and make more informed investment decisions.

Driving market development

• The MECS Challenge Fund has supported business investment in clean cooking technologies and solutions in the Global South.
• Burn Kenya shifted focus to invest in manufacturing energy-efficient electric appliances at scale and expanding their premises to develop a dedicated production facility for electric pressure cookers.

Inspiring charities 

• Our eCook project directly influenced the Clean Cooking Alliance’s global strategy for the sector
• We convinced the US NGO CLASP of the case for electric cooking - the promotion of efficient electric cooking appliances is now a priority market-creation activity for them.
• Dutch NGO Hivos were inspired by our focus on interdisciplinary work and gender equality to prioritise electric cooking.