Technology Research, Development, and Tools for Clean Biomass Cookstoves Funding Opportunity
In April 2012, the Energy Department announced a funding opportunity for applied research to advance clean biomass cookstove technologies for use in developing countries. The funding will support the development of innovative cookstove designs that allow users to burn wood or crop residues more efficiently and with less smoke than open fires and traditional stoves. These competitively selected projects will transform existing cookstoves and lead to designing next-generation cookstoves, thereby helping to save lives and improve livelihoods. The Department of Energy, along with other federal agencies, is a founding partner of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a public-private partnership to advance cookstove technologies that improve indoor air quality, reduce carbon emissions, and deliver important benefits for people's health and the economies of developing nations around the world.
The Energy Department will provide $2.5 million over three years to support the three innovative projects to dramatically improve the combustion efficiency of stoves cooking with biomass fuel and will improve our understanding of combustion physics, thereby enabling future developments in cookstove designs. Pending fiscal year 2013 funds for this effort, an additional two alternate projects will be awarded.