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.

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:

1. Review existing DC electric pressure cookers available in the market
2. Develop DC Solar electric pressure cooking (SEPC) system in the Scode workshop suitable for cooking Kenyan dishes
3. Test and evaluate performance of developed DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system in Scode workshop
4. Evaluate potential for adoption of the developed DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system
5. Investigate consumer financing models for DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system suitable for target market
6. Assess the affordability of the DC Solar electric pressure-cooking system to potential users in the study areas
7. 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:

• E Cook Baseline Survey Report
• Control Cooking test report.pdf
• EPC KPT report
• Water-Boiling test Results and discussions
• SEPC development report
• 13th EU International Conference Presentation
• Raw data DC Solar Cookers