Global Market Assessment for Electric Cooking
Coley, Will and Eales, Aran and Batchelor, Simon and Leary, Jon and Galloway, Stuart (2021) Global Market Assessment for Electric Cooking. Modern Energy Cooking Services.
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Abstract
Globally, approximately 2 billion people have access to some form of electricity but do not have access to clean cooking, the majority of which rely on the traditional use of biomass. Cooking with biomass leads to an estimated 3.8 million deaths per year attributed to household air pollution. The widespread practise of cooking with non-renewable wood fuels also contributes to ecosystem degradation and the emission of approximately 1 gigaton of CO2/year (2% of global emissions total). According to the State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services report by the World Bank, ESMAP and MECS, not progressing beyond the status quo is costing the world more than US$2 trillion each year; US$ 1.4 trillion from the negative impacts on health, US$ 0.2 trillion per year from climate impacts and environmental degradation and US$ 0.8 trillion per year from its adverse effects specifically on women. A growing body of evidence is showing that, in many settings, modern energy cooking services such as electric cooking are already cost-effective alternatives. For many countries in the Global South with a strong enabling environment (including having access to affordable, reliable electricity and the presence of a strong, active modern cooking sector) a transition to electric cooking is already taking place, mainly among the consumer class. For other countries where many households have limited or no access to modern energy, a suite of innovative business models and technologies are rapidly expanding opportunities to transition to electric cooking via mini-grid and off-grid systems. To understand where the greatest opportunities and challenges for a scale up of electric cooking in the Global South lie, a Global Market Assessment (GMA) for electric cooking has been conducted by the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme which seeks to “to rapidly accelerate the transition from biomass to clean cooking on a global scale”. The GMA has drawn on the experience of a range of stakeholders to identify the key factors which influence the viability of a scale up of electric cooking and represents this as a weighted score constructed from 37 indicators covering 130 countries in the Global South. As electric cooking relies on a electricity which can now be supplied in a variety of different ways, the GMA provides a score for national grid, mini-grid and off-grid (standalone) supported electric cooking.
ORCID iDs
Coley, Will ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4059-2579, Eales, Aran ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9090-529X, Batchelor, Simon, Leary, Jon and Galloway, Stuart ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1978-993X;-
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Item type: Report ID code: 77307 Dates: DateEvent1 May 2021PublishedSubjects: Social Sciences Department: Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Strategic Research Themes > EnergyDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 05 Aug 2021 10:41 Last modified: 17 Oct 2024 00:16 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/77307