Solar e-Cooking: A Proposition for Solar Home System Integrated Clean Cooking

Batchelor, Simon; Talukder, Md. Zargis; Uddin, Md. Kamal; Mondal, Sandip; Islam, Salekul; Redoy, Rezwanul; Hanlin, Rebecca; Khan, Md. Raisuddin

doi:10.3390/en11112933

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“…Evidence from eight MECS countries [4,31,45,52,69] shows that eCooking and electricity tariffs have an inverse relationship, i.e., people cook more with electricity when the tariff is low, suggesting that cost is one of the key barriers to the adoption of eCooking. What is more, there is a clear relation between the adoption of electricity for cooking and higher incomes [18,52].…”

Section: Financial Tax and Subsidymentioning

confidence: 99%

eCooking: Challenges and Opportunities from a Consumer Behaviour Perspective

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New opportunities are opening for electric cooking (eCooking) as a cost-effective, practical and desirable solution to the twin global challenges of clean cooking and electrification. Globally, momentum is building behind the transformative potential of eCooking to achieve a range of environmental and social impacts. However, cooking is a complex, culturally embedded practice, that results in an array of behavioural change challenges that must be understood and overcome for these new opportunities to translate into impact at scale. The Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme was designed to explore this space and pilot innovative new eCooking services with the potential to rapidly scale. This paper reflects upon the programme’s key learnings to date on the behavioural change dimension of eCooking. It consolidates what we now know on the subject and highlights the gaps that remain, where further investigation is needed. The evidence shows that the uptake of eCooking can be hindered by (often false) perceptions around cost, taste and safety, the high cost and steep learning curve for new appliances, the lack of awareness/availability/after-sales service for energy-efficient appliances and the reluctance of male decision-makers to authorise appliance purchases. However, it also shows that the convenience and potential cost savings offered by energy-efficient appliances can offer an aspirational cooking experience and that uptake could be driven forward rapidly by urbanisation and changing lifestyles.

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Section: Financial Tax and Subsidymentioning

confidence: 99%

eCooking: Challenges and Opportunities from a Consumer Behaviour Perspective

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“…Some already‐prototyped examples include smart grids that could leverage the emerging ICT infrastructure and the accompanying proliferation of mobile phones in SSA to enable dynamic pricing schemes that could offer low‐cost distributed renewable electricity during off‐peak hours (Brown et al, 2018). Such ICT‐based schemes could also spur the widespread diffusion of inexpensive, low‐powered solar e‐cooking stoves (Batchelor et al, 2018).…”

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Innovative and mission‐oriented financing of renewable energy in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A review and conceptual framework

Soumonni

Ojah

2021

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Notwithstanding the high levels of renewable energy resources across Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), modern energy use based on these abundant natural resources remains negligible. Furthermore, the current electrification rates and reliability of available power supply in the region have consistently remained significantly lower than the global average over the last three decades. And of the reasons advanced for this state of affairs, the lack of appropriate financing is said to be a crucial one. Therefore, focusing on a comparative overview of the dominant approaches to financing electrification, we characterize the persistence of this regional gap as a reflection of relative “policy stasis.” We then problematize this condition of stasis by employing the theoretical perspectives of mission‐oriented finance in conjunction with those of innovative finance and renewable energy innovation. In addition, we review relevant peer‐reviewed articles over the same period, and find evidence that indicates an underappreciation of financing models that stimulate endogenous technological innovation in renewable energy in SSA. Our analysis suggests that the types of innovation, associated configurations of financial actors, levels of capital intensity, and perceived risks in relation to beneficiaries, diverge from those accounted for in the dominant financing models. Consequently, we propose a novel, historically path‐dependent conceptual framework that emerges from the intersection among the concepts of mission‐oriented finance, endogenous innovation, and innovative financing, which we term “endogenous innovative financing.” This framework ultimately guides our recommendations for more promising financing mechanisms for resolving the interwoven challenges of sustainable universal electrification and renewable energy innovation in SSA. This article is categorized under: Energy Research & Innovation > Economics and Policy Energy and Development > Economics and Policy Energy and Climate > Economics and Policy

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“…In developing countries, food preparation is largely covered using coal, solid biomass, and only to a lesser extent are gaseous fuels used in the form of propane-butane [15,16]. According to a study [17] about 3 billion people use for food preparation the so-called open fire, which burns solid biomass or coal.…”

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Numerical Analysis of Concentrated Solar Heaters for Segmented Heat Accumulators

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This presented paper focuses on the design and evaluation of the concept of concentrated solar heaters for segmental heat accumulators, which are designed to cover the energy needs of selected communities in terms of food preparation without the need for fossil fuels, which have a negative impact not only on the climate but especially on health. The proposed device is based on the traditional method of food preparation in the so-called earth oven; however, the fire-heated stones are replaced with heat accumulators heated by solar radiation. This approach eliminates the need to change common and long-term habits of food preparation for selected communities. The device connects solar vacuum heat pipes, a solar radiation concentrator, and heat accumulators. The concept was evaluated based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis with the use of a transient simulation of selected operating situations in three geographical locations. The results showed a significant temperature increase of the heat accumulators, where in the most effective case the temperature increased up to 227.23 °C. The concept was also evaluated based on a calorimetric analysis of the system consisting of heat accumulators and food. The resulting temperature in the considered case reached the pasteurization temperature necessary for safe and healthy food preparation.

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Solar e-Cooking: A Proposition for Solar Home System Integrated Clean Cooking

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

eCooking: Challenges and Opportunities from a Consumer Behaviour Perspective

eCooking: Challenges and Opportunities from a Consumer Behaviour Perspective

Innovative and mission‐oriented financing of renewable energy in Sub‐Saharan Africa: A review and conceptual framework

Numerical Analysis of Concentrated Solar Heaters for Segmented Heat Accumulators

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