Efficient Cooking with Ugastoves

Project Information

Project Title: Efficient Cooking with Ugastoves

Methodologies: GS-VER Methodology „Improved Cook-Stoves and Kitchen Regimes“, developed by Dr. Adam Harvey, JP Morgan Climate Care; Sectoral Scope: 3
Project Description:
The project reduces the amount of green house gases emitted through production and use of charcoal and firewood as cooking fuels, by introducing widespread use of efficient charcoal and wood stoves (including those used by institutions such as schools) which replace existing inefficient stoves primarily in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, with expanding sales throughout the country. Wood-fuels marketed in Kampala are sourced from forest areas hundreds of kilometres from the town, and as these sources become depleted, it can be reasonably expected that more distant areas of the country will be used. The project is based on pilot work conducted in 2005 by the Urban Community Development Association of Kampala. A stove manufacturing business with the name Ugastoves was founded on the basis of this pilot work in 2007. The improved charcoal stove reduces fuel consumption by introduction of an insulated combustion chamber which increases combustion efficiency and retains heat. The wood stoves use the well-proven rocket technology, which consists of an insulated elbowjointed combustion chamber that increases combustion efficiency and retains heat while also raising the cooking pot to the hottest point above the flame. The institutional rocket stoves further increase heat transfer by having the cooking pot rest within a skirt. Currently inefficient and polluting cooking regimes are deeply established in the culture. The project aims to break this mould and move large populations away from conditions under which GHG emissions are unacceptably high, and health effects are unacceptably inhumane, for the women and children spending long hours each day in conventional kitchens. The carbon finance provides a basis for maintaining a professional commercial relationship between the user and the disseminators, while also introducing an affordable price, a quality guarantee and a warranty system. The quality assurance strategy is a major benefit of carbon finance. It has the potential to introduce a new set of quality expectations amongst consumers and so shift the critical mass of prevailing practice away from inefficient cooking. The crediting period of the project is 7 years renewable and total emission reduction over the first 7-year period is expected to be 518,581 tC2eq (74,083 tCO2eq per year in average). The project contributes significantly to the mitigation of climate change and the region’s sustainable development and is designed as a voluntary Gold-Standard project.

Host Country: Uganda
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