Awareness and Demonstration of electric cooking appliances at Petti, Kilankwa, Abuja. June 2023

With a population of over 240 million in Nigeria, 47% lives in the rural area and still use fuel wood and charcoal for their cooking needs, of which 93,000 women die annually from smoke inhaled, cooking with fuel wood.

Nigeria has over 120 solar power ‘
+mini-grid with majority of the household connected still relying on firewood for their cooking needs


The World Bank and the Rural Electrification Agency has projected that about 10,000 Mini-grids would be built in the next five years in Nigeria to electrify over 10 million households and businesses.

We have organized 3 sensitization workshops and demonstration session in mini-grid communities, on the benefits of electric cooking where we had the men and the women participate.
We are providing Electric cookers that are simple to use.
We are providing instalment payment plans through microfinance bank and cooperative.

Electric cooking is more than just a convenient way to prepare meals. It has the power to transform rural communities by providing ease and cost saving solution for a daily routine.

Africa Climate Week

ACW 2023 and all the Regional Climate Weeks provide a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome and opportunities realized in different regions.

The Weeks consider four major systems-based tracks with a view to providing region-focused contributions to inform the global stocktake:

✅️Energy systems and industry

✅️Cities, urban and rural settlements, ✅️Infrastructure and transport

✅️Land, ocean, food and water

✅️Societies, health, livelihoods, and economies.

The Nigerian Alliance for clean Cookstoves had a two-day Forum

The Nigerian Alliance for clean Cookstoves had a two-day Forum that brings together key policymakers, private sector leaders, research institutions, civil society stakeholders and international partners to discuss the draft clean cooking policy document and plans towards sustainable energy transition. The Forum also took stock of current status of clean cooking activities in the country especially at the state level; discussed how to leverage on carbon financing to expand access to clean cooking solutions and how to promote clean cooking in humanitarian settings.

Clean Cooking Saves Lives

Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum 2022

Join the Nigerian Alliance for Clean Cooking (NACC) and key stakeholders for the Nigeria Clean Cooking Forum taking place in Abuja, Nigeria from October 6-7, 2022.

The two-day Forum brings together key policymakers, private sector leaders, research institutions, civil society stakeholders and international partners to discuss the draft clean cooking policy document and plans towards sustainable energy transition. The Forum will also take stock of current status of clean cooking activities in the country especially at the state level; discuss how to leverage on carbon financing to expand access to clean cooking solutions and how to promote clean cooking in humanitarian settings. Exhibition of clean cookstoves and fuels will take place concurrently with discussions.

UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE UK 2021

The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021.

The COP26 summit will bring parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together almost every country on earth for global climate summits – called COPs – which stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. ‘In that time climate change has gone from being a fringe issue to a global priority. This year will be the 26th annual summit – giving it the name COP26. With the UK as President, COP26 takes place in Glasgow. In the run up to COP26 the UK is working with every nation to reach agreement on how to tackle climate change. More than 190 world leaders are expected to arrive in Scotland. Together with tens of thousands of negotiators, government representatives, businesses and citizens for twelve days of talks. Not only is it a huge task but it is also not just yet another international summit. Most experts believe COP26 has a particular urgency.

CLEAN COOK

People in middle income and low income countries still make use of open fires and simple stoves to cook their food. These methods of cooking can produce high level of dangerous cooking smoke which has been known to cause injury or death overtime especially to women and children who are often the primary cooks and fuel gathers for their families in the developing world. According to World Health Organization (WHO), household air pollution from cooking smoke kills four million people worldwide.  In Africa, Nigeria experiences the highest number of household air pollution.

Series of chronic illnesses associated with breathing such as emphysema, bronchitis, lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases can all be acquired from the smoke exposure produced from this method of cooking. This unsuitable method of cooking also contributes to climate change through emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and aerosols such as black carbon invariably giving rise to about 4% annual greenhouse emission worldwide.

Clean cooking is the method of application of cleaner, more modern cook stoves and fuels to lead a healthy and productive life. This helps in reduction of exposure to harmful smoke and beneficial to the environment and climate change. This method of practice can be divided into three main categories-through the use of electric stove, by the use of a cook stove based clean fuels(biogas, methane, ethanol, solar) and by the use of cook stove designed to burn biomass input(wood, charcoal, other biomass).

The clean cooking stoves are always applicable anywhere that unsuitable and polluting cooking means are being used. It comes in different types and sizes depending on factors such as the availability of materials, the climate, and the method of supply in the region. The benefits of this method include changing lives by improving health, protecting the climate and environment, empowering women and helping consumers save their time and money.

THE WORLD EARTH DAY

The world earth day which is celebrated every 22nd April of the year serves the purpose as a significant reminder that environmental protection is of utmost importance in creating a healthy environment.

The energy sector has for years played its role in the promotion of clean energy all around the world and continues to do so by providing clean energy which includes renewable energy amongst others which gives us to the benefit of enjoying;

 

  • A decrease in air pollution
  • Lower consumer energy bills
  • Greenhouse gas emission
  • Enhanced energy system reliability

Investing in clean energy around your environment to the best thing that you can do for the environment as the electricity gotten from these renewable sources such as wind, solar and geothermal do not in any way promote climate change considering that no fuels are combusted.

UN SDG ARTICLE

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the largest access deficit: here, 573 million people—more than one in two—lack access to electricity. The region is also home to the 20 countries with the lowest electrification rates (figure ES3). Burundi, Chad, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Niger were the four countries with the lowest electrification rates in 2017. Progress in electrifying inner cities has been slow, and most informal settlements are still supplied through fragile distribution networks. The rural access rate of 79% in 2017 was lower than the urban access rate of 97%. To reach remote areas, off-grid solutions are essential; these include solar lighting systems, solar home systems, and—increasingly—mini-grids. SDG target 7.1 calls for universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services. Reliability and affordability remain challenging elements in many countries, even as the number of household connections increases. In 2017, one-third of access-deficit countries faced more than one weekly disruption in electricity supply that lasted over four minutes. A basic, subsistence level of electricity consumption (30 kilowatt-hours per month) was unaffordable for 40% of households in about half of these countries. Access also has a gender dimension. In key access-deficit countries analyzed under the World Bank’s Multi-Tier Framework for Energy, found significant variability in household access rates based on gender of head of household. If the rate of progress in expanding access to electricity remained at the same level as that between 2015 and 2017, universal access could be reached by 2030.

However, connecting the last of the unserved populations may be more challenging than past electrification efforts, since many such populations live in remote locales or overburdened cities. A projected 650 million people are likely to remain without access to electricity in 2030, and 9 out of 10 such people will be in Sub-Saharan Africa. Key strategies for closing this gap will include data-based decision-making and advanced policy-planning frameworks, private sector financing, versatile.