Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers

RTKCs also support local producers and manufacturers to improve products, communicate performance to customers, and provide training and other resources to catalyze stoves and fuels activities.

This list includes organizations that are focused on a cookstoves and fuels testing and/or design. Please contact the testing organizations directly about potential collaborations or to find out what testing services they may offer. The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) does not certify testing organizations and provides this list as information for our partners.

To suggest additional organizations to include, please contact CCA at info@cleancooking.org.

A green dot indicates that this testing organization has a Conflict of Interest Policy and/or a Quality Assurance Information/ISO 17025 Certification is available to share upon request.

• Conflict of Interest Policy – Describes an organization’s policies around technology neutrality and providing independent, third-party testing
• ISO Efficiency and Emissions Testing – Refers to the use of the ISO Protocol 19867-1:2018 to test cookstoves for (1) efficiency and (2) carbon monoxide and PM2.5 emissions

Name	Country	Location	Point of Contact	Email	Conflict of Interest Policy	ISO Efficiency	ISO Emissions
Aprovecho Research Center	United States	Cottage Grove, Oregon	Sam Bentson	sbentson@aprovecho.org
Asian Institute of Technology	Thailand	Khlong Nueng	Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh	kimoanh@ait.ac.th
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Md Mominur Rahman	mrrahman@che.buet.ac.bd
Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT)	China	Beijing	Guangging Liu	guangqing_liu@126.com
Berkeley Air Monitoring Group	United States	Berkeley	Michael Johnson	mjohnson@berkeleyair.com
Bioenergy Innovation and Assessment Laboratory (LINEB)	Mexico	Morelia, Michoacan	Victor Ruiz	vruiz@cieco.unam.mx
Burn Design Lab	United States	Vashon Island, Washington	Paul Means, Cooper Sloan	paul@burndesignlab.org and cooper.sloan@burndesignlab.org
Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRCODU)	Uganda	Kampala	Joseph Arineitwe Ndemere	josephndemere@gmail.com
Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC)	Uganda	Kampala	Agnes Naluwagga	analuwaga@creec.or.ug
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)	Nepal	Kathmandu	Anzoo Sharma	anzoo@crtnepal.org
Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Energies Renouvelables Kitsisa-Khonde (CERERK) Center for Studies and Research on Renewable Energies Kitsisa-Khonde	Congo, Democratic Republic	Kinshasa	Augustin Lomena Mulenda	lomena.mulenda@ista.ac.cd
Centre for Study and Research on Renewable Energy (CERER)	Senegal	Dakar	Moustapha Kane	moustapha9.kane@ucad.edu.sn
Centro de Pruebas de Cocinas (CPC), Stove Testing Center	Bolivia	La Paz	Marcelo Gorrity	mgorrity@gmail.com
China Agricultural University (CAU)	China	Beijing	Yuguang Zhou	zhouyg@cau.edu.cn
Clean Cookstoves Development and Testing Center	Nigeria	Afikpo	Okechukwu Ugwu	okey@iceednigeria.org
Colorado State University	United States	Fort Collins, Colorado	Christian L'Orange	Christian.lorange@colostate.edu
The Cookstove and Charcoal Development Center	Sierra Leone	Freetown	Mohammed Augustus R. Kamara	yeabumagbass@yahoo.com
Cook Stove Testing Laboratory (Rwanda Standards Board)	Rwanda	Kigali	Bernard Kabera	info@rsb.gov.rw
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	Ghana	Accra	Gloria Boafo-Mensah	gboafomensah@csir-iir.com
Dedan Kimathi University of Technology Centre for Energy Studies	Kenya	Nyeri	Magdaline Muigai	magdaline.muigai@dkut.ac.ke
Department of Chemical Engineering, North-West University	South Africa	Potchefstroom	Harold Annegarn	hannegarn@gmail.com
Instituto Nacional de Normalizacao e Qualidade (INNOQ)	Mozambique	Maputo	Sonia Mendes	smendes275@gmail.com
Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) Stove Testing Centre	Kenya	Nairobi	Cicilia Mesa	cicilia.mesa@kirdi.go.ke
Laboratorio de evaluación y certificación de cocinas mejoradas a biomasa (formerly SENSICO)	Peru	Lima	Ing. Msc. Maria Vilcapoma Sarmiento, Ing. Rafael Torres Rojas, Tec. Pablo Cuentas Nanquen	mvilcapoma@sencico.gob.pe and rtorres@sencico.gob.pe and pcuentas@sencico.gob.pe
Laboratorios Técnicos, Ministerio de Energía y Minas de Guatemala	Guatemala	Guatemala City	Mayra Villatoro	jefelab@mem.gob.gt
Ministry of Water and Energy Workshop and Laboratory	Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Adonay Asrat Zeleke	adonayta16@gmail.com
Nyabyeya Forestry College	Uganda	Masindi	Jackson Mutegeki	jmutegeki@gmail.com
Renewable Energy Testing Station	Nepal	Kathmandu	Bijaya Raj Khanal	bijaya@retsnepal.org
Research Institute for Energy and Mine	Laos	Vientiane	Xayalak Vilaida	x.vilaida@nuol.edu.la
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and Ministry of Energy and Mines	Laos and Cambodia	Vientiane and Phnom Penh	Bastiaan Teune, Laura Clough	bteune@snv.org and lclough@snv.org
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and Institute for Technology and Science	Cambodia	Phnam Penh	Bastiaan Teune, Laura Clough, Dr Moly	bteune@snv.org and lclough@snv.org and or.molyitc@gmail.com
Solar Cookers International	United States	Sacramento, California	Alan Bigelow	info@solarcookers.org
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)	India	New Delhi	Akif Farooqui	akif.farooqui@teri.res.in
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	United States	Research Triangle Park, North Carolina	Jim Jetter	Jetter.Jim@epa.gov
National Stove Eligibility Laboratory, University of Nigeria, Nsukka	Nigeria	Nsukka	Cosmas Anyanwu	cosmas.anyanwu@unn.edu.ng
University of the Philippines Diliman	Philippines	Quezon City	Mylene G. Cayetano	mgcayetano@upd.edu.ph
Zamorano Improved Cookstoves Evaluation Center	Honduras	San Antonio de Oriente	Victoria Alejandra Cortes Matamoros	vcortes@zamorano.edu