Siddhanth Jayaram

Understand local cooking practices, fuel availability, and other contextual factors that influence the use of cookstoves. Pilot recommend device for feedback from beneficiaries.

At the time of distribution, data from every household is collected to create a project database. This database is used to track the impact of the project over time and to make adjustments to the project design.

After project implementation, the project is monitored to assess its impact on health and the environment.

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Improving health and environment through clean cookstoves

thermal efficient than traditional mud/three stone fired cookstoves 

reduction in the consumption of firewood as fuel

EKI is a market leader in climate change solutions, with over 14 years of experience and a global presence in 16+ countries. They specialize in carbon offset solutions and asset management, serving 3500+ clients across 40+ countries worldwide. To date, EKI has supplied over 200+ million offsets and operates with standards like CDM, VCS, Gold Standard, GCC, IREC, TIGR, and more. Founded in 2008, the company is dedicated to creating a net-zero carbon future. EKI launched the Green Cooking initiative to solve this and replace the smoke emitting traditional mud/three stone fire cook stoves with improved cook stoves that are safer and also fuel efficient.

Improves the thermal transfer to the cooking pots

Provides a conducive environment for clean, efficient combustion of wood

Substantially reduces fuel consumption

Reduces emissions for cooking and water heating in homes

Traditional mud and three stone fire cook stoves are only about 8-10% fuel efficient resulting in acute firewood wastage. Costs are prohibitive for rural households to shift to cleaner fuels, despite government subsidies. The Green Cooking initiative aims to replace smoke-emitting traditional fire cookstoves in households, with Improved cook stoves (ICS) that are safer and also fuel efficient. These stoves are distributed free of cost to economically weaker families in remote locations.

EKI launched the Green Cooking initiative to solve this and replace the smoke emitting traditional mud/three stone fire cookstoves in households with Improved cook stoves (ICS) that are safer and also fuel efficient. The purpose of the project is to reduce the demand for fossil fuels and biomass for household cooking needs. The ICS are provided free of cost to economically weaker families in remote locations. The ICS deployed under this project incorporate energy efficient technology to help as follows:

How does the project tackle this?

The purple area represents the Udalguri region in Assam, one of the locations where Improved Cook Stoves were distributed - cookstoves

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Improving health and environment through clean cookstoves

50% to 60% of households in rural India still cook using traditional biomass stoves and open fires

Impact on people, communities and planet

35,045

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45-55%

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