Description
Kenya has a vibrant and liberalised solar market. However, households have largely used photovoltaic (pv) solar for lighting and running low energy household devices. The falling cost of storage batteries and pv modules, rising cost of biomass fuels, all put together present unprecedented opportunity to optimise cooking with electricity using highly efficient appliances such as DC SEPC.
Development and evaluation of a direct current solar electric pressure cooker unit (dsepc) project was a one-year project implemented by Scode with funding from Modern Energy Cooking services (MECS)- a project run by UK’s Loughborough University
Project Aim and Objectives
The project’s aim was to develop and evaluate a DC electric pressure cooker unit among rural households in Mogotio and Mbaruk administrative locations in Nakuru County
The project’s Specific Objectives were to:
- Review existing DC electric pressure cookers available in the market
- Develop DC Solar electric pressure cooking (SEPC) system in the Scode workshop suitable for cooking Kenyan dishes
- Test and evaluate performance of developed DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system in Scode workshop
- Evaluate potential for adoption of the developed DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system
- Investigate consumer financing models for DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system suitable for target market
- Assess the affordability of the DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system to potential users in the study areas
- Develop parameters for standardization of the developed DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system
RESOURCES
Here are some links to reports on our findings throughout the project period:
https://social.scode.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/e-Cook-Baseline-Survey-Report.pdf
https://social.scode.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Control-Cooking-test-report.pdf
https://social.scode.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/EPC-KPT-report.pdf
https://social.scode.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/SEPC-development-report.pdf
https://social.scode.co.ke/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Raw-data-DC-Solar-Cookers.pdf
