The eCook Zambia Design Challenge aimed to facilitate the participatory design of eCook (a battery-supported electric cooking concept), allowing the generic concept to evolve around Zambian cooking practices.
Monthly Archives: April 2019
eCook Zambia Kick Off Meeting Minutes
Belated but worth a read on the basic ideas.
The eCook Zambia Kick off Workshop brought together key stakeholders from the solar lighting, clean cookstoves and utility sectors to discuss the proposition of battery – supported cooking. The Centre for Energy, Environment and Engineering Zambia (CEEEZ) in partnership with a UK research consortium (Gamos Ltd., University of Surrey and Loughborough University), are collaborating on an initial exploratory study to investigate the opportunity for this potentially transformative technology, which is
designed to extend access to electricity access and clean cooking facilities to poorer households (PV-eCook.org).
Fire, smoke, lives and investment
Most people still use Charcoal?
Charcoal price parity. Read more…
eCook and Gender in Tanzania Final Report
This report presents a gendered analysis of how the eCook concept might fit into the Tanzanian context, with the aim of informing the development of a battery-supported electric cooking concept, eCook.
eCook Zambia FGD Summary Report
This report summarises the findings from four Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) held in Zambia, with the aim of informing the development of a battery-supported electric cooking concept, eCook.
An Irish stew per mile.
I remain fascinated by the electric vehicle discussions and of course, the battery developments are very relevant to eCook. I saw this interesting discussion about a Tesla. Read more…
Modern Energy Cooking Services
So, Loughborough University are leading a major programme of work on modern energy cooking services. This builds on our work and blogging here.
Solar Electric Cooking 