Background Paper For Clean Cooking Market Place 2013, Nepal

Out of 5.43 million families in Nepal, 4.50 million (83%) live in rural areas and most of them have no access to any clean cooking energy. These households are using fuels like firewood, cattle dung or agrowaste in traditional three-stone or metal tripod stoves. Roughly 1.78 million households are using some kind of clean cooking energy like Improved Cookstoves (ICS), biogas, kerosene, LPG and electricity. This figure is obtained by adding an estimated 450,000 households using ICS and around 1.33 million households using cleaner fuels like biogas (131,596), kerosene (55,610), LPG (1,140,662) and electricity (4,523)1, as primary cooking fuel.

Thus, roughly 3.65 million rural households are cooking in traditional stoves with fuel like firewood, dung and agrowaste and almost 2.85 million households may qualify only for ICS at least in short term and some 800 thousand households may qualify for domestic biogas, particularly those currently using cattle dung for cooking(563,126)2. Of course, solar cookers can be promoted as cooking energy solution in some mountain districts,where firewood is really scarce and biogas is also not feasible.

Source: nepalcookstoves.org
Author: Saroj Rai, Senior Renewable Energy Advisor, SNV

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CRT/N’s Participation at CCMP 2013

CCMP 2013 July

August 12, 2013

As a part of promoting clean cookstoves, Alternative Energy promotion Centre (AEPC) organized an international event "Clean Cookstoves Market Place 2013 (CCMP 2013)" from July 10th - 12th 2013 in Kathmandu with the purpose of exploring and showcasing successful national and international cookstoves designs and business models along with creating a conducive environment for collaboration between cookstoves entrepreneurs and financing institutions. Nepal Alliance for Clean Cookstoves website was officially lunched as a national level alliance that works as an affiliate of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.

The event included Seminar, Expo and Field Visit. Centre for Rural Technology Nepal (CRT/N) being one of the supporters of the event had participated actively in the mission.  Products, Services and Partnership opportunities were showcased by CRT/N with highlights on Regional Cookstoves Testing and Knowledge Centre (RTKC) establishment that provide cookstoves testing services with precise efficiency and accuracy.  The test results of some of the stoves were pretty interesting to visitors. The other highlight of CRT/N was the Improved Cookstoves Programme with Carbon Finance (ICF) in which the two rocket stoves viz: Rocket stove with Metallic Combustion Chamber and Metallic Top Plate (RS1.1) and Rocket Stove with Ceramic Combustion Chamber and Metallic top plate (RS3.1) being promoted in the far-western development region were showcased. One another attraction was the Business Model ICS (Institutional Rocket Stove with Chimney, IRSC) recently developed by Rural Energy and Technology Service Centre (RETSC) team at CRT/N.

Besides these several public/private organizations entrepreneurs from different part of the world (chiefly from India, China, and Nepal) working in clean cooking solutions participated in the event.