Electric Cooking
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NEWS
As Uganda Scales Up Electric Cooking After Kenya’s Carbon Crash
Uganda’s electric cooking conversation starts with a number that rarely makes headlines. Adoption is estimated at 2%. The government wants that figure to be between 18% and 20% by 2030. That is not incremental growth. It is a structural reorientation of how households prepare meals. Behind the ambition sits infrastructure that already exists. Generation capacity expanded rapidly after projects such…
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ENERGY
BURN raises $5 million to expand its electric cooking technology to more households in Kenya
BURN, Africa’s leading clean cookstove manufacturer, distributor, and carbon project developer, has secured a USD 5 million investment from EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) through the EU Funded Electrification Financing Initiative (ElectriFI). This investment will allow over 100,000 Kenyan households to transition to clean, electric cooking—reducing household energy costs and eliminating an estimated 1.4M tons of CO₂ emissions over the…
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NEWS
BURN Secures $15 Million To Scale Electric Cooking In East Africa
BURN, the manufacturer of clean cooking stoves has secured a US$15 million investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The investment was announced during the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings in Washington. This funding will accelerate BURN’s efforts to manufacture and distribute its IoT-enabled ECOA electric cooking appliances to over 1 million households in East Africa. The ECOA Induction Cooker (IDC)…
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