Clean Cooking Forum 2022

Site Visits

The 2022 CCA Forum offered participants a selection of site visits showcasing innovative clean cooking solutions in and around the Nairobi area. The visits took place on Thursday, November 7, and included transport, refreshments, and a box lunch. Further details can be found below.

Ethanol For Cooking : KOKO Networks

KOKO Networks is an international technology company and a global leader in clean ethanol cooking fuel and cooking products. The company builds and deploys dense networks of cloud-connected “KOKO Points” installed inside local shops, which serve as clean fuel ATMs and in-store digital media playing devices. KOKO also manufactures modern, high-power ethanol stoves at its factory in Gujarat, India.

Last year, KOKO partnered with Vivo Energy Kenya for the supply of bioethanol to KOKO Points using KOKO’s hardware and software technologies, while KOKO launched its Nairobi Network of 700 Agents in mid-2019.

Participants will tour KOKO’s Technology Production Facility in Nairobi to see how the network is managed, including demonstrations of KOKO Points and KOKO Cookers. For more information on the facility, click here.

Minimum participants: 20

Maximum participants: 50

Estimated trip time: 4.5 hours

Proposed itinerary:

08:00 – Depart from hotel
09:00 – Arrive at KOKO facility (25 km)
11:00 – Depart from KOKO facility
12:30 – Arrive at hotel

Biomass Stoves Manufacturing: BURN Manufacturing

BURN Manufacturing is based 30 minutes north of Nairobi. It manufactures, designs, produces, and distributes low-cost, high-quality efficient cookstoves. BURN is one of the leading modern cookstove companies which manufactures all its products locally in its state-of-the-art cookstove manufacturing facility.

Since 2013, BURN has sold over 650,000+ “Best in Class” biomass stoves in East Africa. These stoves have helped three million beneficiaries save USD 215 million in fuel expenditures and 2.6 million tons of wood while reducing indoor air pollution by 65-81%. BURN currently sells about 30,000 stoves per month and is on track to reach 40,000 stoves per month over the next three months. BURN is currently conducting its first significant capital raise to bring its biomass cookstoves – as well as a new range of electric, hybrid, and liquid fuel stoves – to Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

See BURN’s video for more details.