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Electric cooking stove is a sustainable long-term solution with multi-fold benefits
Electric cooking stoves are a prime solution in closing the remaining clean cooking gap, capitalising on cheap and carbon-free electricity. It serves as a long-term solution with no added burden on fuel imports. Building on the Government’s planned efforts to close the clean cooking gap by increasing the uptake of electric cooking stoves, and through the dissemination of ICS and biogas digesters, NEXSTEP analysis suggests the remaining gap be closed with the promotion of electric cooking stoves.
Electric cooking technology is classed as Level 5 in the World Bank MTF for Indoor Air Quality Measurement. Electric cooking stoves are more efficient than other cooking stoves, including gas stoves. The annualised cost of electric cooking stove is cheaper, compared to the use of LPG stove and biogas digester. While ICS is estimated to have a lower annualized cost than electric cooking stoves, concerns have been raised by various studies regarding their suitability as a long-term clean cooking solution for the general population.
Nevertheless, the use of electric cooking stoves is also limited to households with sufficient power capacity, i.e., households connected to the main grid or to larger mini- grids. The economic status of the households/communities should also be taken into consideration in the clean cooking programmes, whereby lower cost technologies (i.e., ICS and biogas digesters) may be promoted in the most deprived communities.
Electric cooking stoves are a prime solution in closing the remaining clean cooking gap, capitalising on cheap and carbon-free electricity. It serves as a long-term solution with no added burden on fuel imports. Building on the Government’s planned efforts to close the clean cooking gap by increasing the uptake of electric cooking stoves, and through the dissemination of ICS and biogas digesters, NEXSTEP analysis suggests the remaining gap be closed with the promotion of electric cooking stoves.
Electric cooking technology is classed as Level 5 in the World Bank MTF for Indoor Air Quality Measurement. Electric cooking stoves are more efficient than other cooking stoves, including gas stoves. The annualised cost of electric cooking stove is cheaper, compared to the use of LPG stove and biogas digester. While ICS is estimated to have a lower annualized cost than electric cooking stoves, concerns have been raised by various studies regarding their suitability as a long-term clean cooking solution for the general population.
Nevertheless, the use of electric cooking stoves is also limited to households with sufficient power capacity, i.e., households connected to the main grid or to larger mini- grids. The economic status of the households/communities should also be taken into consideration in the clean cooking programmes, whereby lower cost technologies (i.e., ICS and biogas digesters) may be promoted in the most deprived communities.
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