Global Clean Cooking
Over 2020-21 a trio of us came together to collectively develop a White Paper championed by Ken Robertson, but whose source and technical design were contributed by Steve O’Gorman. Ken is a former NGO founder and current overseas development consultant. Steve likewise has many years of experience in overseas development. Our White Paper described the potential of co-deploying thermal energy storage devices with solar-powered micro-grids for cooking in rural communities. We were addressing the major challenge of hazardous biomass-based cooking by 2.8 billion of the world’s people, most of whom are women and girls. The identified sustainable development goals (SDGs) for this project were SDG5 and SDG7. Two graduate students at the University of Calgary’s Sustainable Energy Development Program (SEDV) worked with us over the year, identifying the key obstacles preventing an expansion of clean cooking to rural communities in Tanzania, and identified a model that has been deployed in Bangladesh and that might be adapted, with suitable modifications.
We remain interested in off-grid energy solutions and global clean cooking as a project area to pursue. If this topic is one you are pursuing, please feel welcome to contact us for a discussion.
