EcoSafi introduces the cleanest, most efficient biomass cookstove ever made
May 14 2024 - 3:00AM
Today at the IEA Summit for Clean Cooking in Africa, EcoSafi, a
provider of high quality clean cookstoves and sustainable biofuels,
announced a major step in their fight against climate change with
the release of the EcoSafi BetterStove. It has also received the
first-ever ‘A’ rating for a clean cookstove project from ratings
agency BeZero Carbon.
Over 2 billion people still cook their meals using wood,
charcoal, or even dung, a practice that’s one of the leading causes
of global carbon emissions and deforestation, and the leading cause
of death and disease from household air pollution.
The BetterStove serves as a substantial leap from past biomass
stoves, giving families a clean, sustainable, and affordable way to
make dinner. Designed to combine form with function, BetterStove is
the cleanest, most efficient, and best performing biomass stove in
production, delivering gas-like performance on planet-saving,
sustainable biofuel. More than offering just great performance, the
BetterStove completely reimagines how cookstoves look, showcasing a
bold, sleek design that families will be excited to use.
The BetterStove has several features that enable it to perform
better than any other biomass cookstove on the market:
- Efficient: BetterStove offers unmatched
thermal efficiency and run time. It is 25% more efficient than the
next best gasifying stove, which is the key driver of reduced
carbon emissions. Just one batch of sustainable biofuel provides up
to 2.5 hours of cook time.
- Affordable: EcoSafi’s biofuel is half the
price of charcoal or LPG and delivers an equivalent, if not better,
cooking experience.
- Clean: The BetterStove meets the WHO
definition for a clean cookstove, which includes tier 4+ for PM2.5
and tier 5 for CO, meaning the BetterStove is comparable to
electric, LPG and other similar technologies.
- Sustainable: The stove is 95% cleaner than
charcoal and can avoid up to 3.5 tons of carbon emissions per
customer, per year, when using the strictest methodology and
metrics available. BetterStove’s IoT-native design also delivers
real-time carbon impact verification.
- Customer-centric: Designed for years of use,
and with years of customer feedback, the BetterStove is also backed
by a lifetime warranty unmatched by any other stove. Remote sensing
capabilities allow EcoSafi to not only measure carbon emissions
accurately, but respond to real-time insights that can ensure
customer satisfaction.
“Families deserve a clean, low-cost, reliable way to make
dinner, one that won’t hurt their pocketbook or our planet. This
stove cooks better than any biomass stove being made today, saving
families time and money, while helping cool the planet,” said
EcoSafi CEO Tom Price. “We are delighted to offer our customers a
premium product that was designed with their feedback, to meet
their needs and wants at every step. Our new cookstove has a clean,
modern design that customers will be proud to use in their homes.
At EcoSafi, we are obsessed with quality, from the stoves
themselves, to the sustainable biofuel pellets that power them, to
the carbon credits we offer. This new stove is an embodiment of
that ethos and our commitment to delivering the best products and
service possible.”
The release of the BetterStove further solidifies EcoSafi as a
trusted leader in clean cooking, and builds on recent
industry-first success. Last week, the company announced its
issuance of the first carbon credits generated in Africa under Gold
Standard’s industry-leading Metered and Measured Energy Cooking
Devices (MECD) methodology. The company has already received an
offer for their entire first tranche of premium credits, which come
recommended by UC Berkeley for delivering proven impact, at a price
of $30 each. The pending transaction would be almost 10X the spot
market price for cooking offsets, proving that high quality credits
command premium prices.
Even more significantly, yesterday, EcoSafi was proud to have
received an ‘A’ rating from BeZero. This is the highest rating
BeZero has ever given a cookstove project anywhere in the world,
and the first ‘A,’ validating EcoSafi’s commitment to charting a
new path forward in high integrity carbon for the entire cookstove
industry. To read our ratings summary and learn more about our
BeZero rating, click here and register for a free BeZero
account.
EcoSafi was honored to be the only cookstove company invited to
exhibit as a Climate Innovation Partner at the COP28 UN Climate
Change Conference in Dubai, and to be among a handful of companies
invited to be featured at this week’s IEA Summit.
Currently operating in Kenya and Uganda, EcoSafi’s stoves are
free to use with a one-time, $5 service fee plus a subscription to
EcoSafi’s affordable biofuel. EcoSafi’s fuel pellets are made
entirely from sugarcane waste in Africa, saving trees and slashing
carbon emissions. The BetterStove will be available to customers
starting this summer.
If you’re interested in a demo of the BetterStove contact
betterstove@ecosafi.com, or, if you would like more information on
purchasing EcoSafi's high-quality, high-integrity carbon credits,
contact carbon@ecosafi.com.
About EcoSafi EcoSafi is a provider of clean
cookstoves and sustainable biofuels delivering on the promise of
clean cooking and high quality carbon credits in Africa. It offers
a premium cookstove and low-cost, sustainable biofuel made from
agricultural waste to replace the burning of harmful wood fuels –
the leading source of climate emissions per household in the
developing world, and a leading driver of deforestation in Africa.
A champion for integrity around carbon markets, EcoSafi scales its
impact via high-quality carbon credits, trusted by the most
rigorous buyers on the market.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available
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