Clean Cooking / Full Data Release Report

Are electric cooking appliances the future of clean cooking?

In our new comprehensive data release report, the A2EI analyses the entire data collected by our smart meters monitoring the usage of electric pressure cookers (EPCs) by 100 pilot users in rural Tanzania from March 2020 to May 2021.

Eighteen months have passed since the A2EI team, in collaboration with Nexleaf, Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS), and PowerGen, initiated the pilot project to help answer the question if electric cooking appliances are the future of clean cooking. One hundred participants located across six different mini-grid-connected villages were trained on the usage of EPCs and given EPCs connected to smart meters that monitored their usage.

In December 2020, A2EI released an energy consumption dataset collected by the smart meters during the first nine months. We are excited to now share an updated and final dataset that covers the entire fourteen month pilot.

The new data release report accompanies the data frames. Our research shows that many households have tangible interest in using electric cooking appliances and that these users can reap positive benefits from the appliance usage. The degree to which a user may access such benefits will depend on the broader context of their environment, such as the regulatory framework, grid design, and applicable electricity tariffs.

Download the full data release & ReadMe here:
raw data frames
ReadMe

Download the data release report here:

Clean Cooking Data Release Report #2

Please reach out to us at cleancooking@a2ei.org in case of any questions, feedback, or further interest in collaborating.