We sell clean burning cookstoves for use in household energy and fuel for cookstoves as pellets made from waste biomass.
We assist in the effort to reduce deforestation by offering energy efficient cookstoves and in the effort to reduce women and childrens' exposure to smoke from polluting cookstoves. Our cookstoves are more than 50% energy efficient compared to the common Zambian Mbawula cookstove with a 90% reduction in polluting gases in the kitchen environment compared to a three stone fire.
Pellets
We produce a renewable cookstove fuel. The outset is to take any residual waste biomass product, either from forestry or agriculture and process it into a pellet.
The preference for residual waste product is founded in the interest finding alternative uses for these residual products as they otherwise would rot or not being put to use in any way.
Our primary biomass resource at the time is waste sawdust. Home Energy is located next to a sawmill, that is Rainlands Timber, outside of Kitwe, Zambia and have access to excess sawdust from the sawmilling operations.
We produce a standardized pellet that offers the stove user a consistent and clean burn with low particulate and CO emissions and high thermal efficiencies. In our Peko Pe stove, 1 kg of the fuel yields normally a cooking time of 1.5 hours. With a fuel, uniform in shape, moisture, density, size, and energy content the stove user will experience a reliable and dependable burn every time.
We deliver pellets throughout Zambia. Use our contact form to get in touch with us for discussions on supply of pellets.
Clean burning cookstoves
We offer two clean burning cookstoves, one is the Peko Pe and the other is the Sawduster.
Both of these stoves address the recent global mobilization around household energy access issues. An important milestone is the recent launching of the public-private organization Global Alliance on Clean Cookstoves led by the United Nations Foundation to help 100 million households adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020. A primary driver of this mobilization is the realization that considerable health benefits can be gained by improving indoor air pollution with the use of efficient cookstoves and clean fuels.
Discussion of household energy access in the climate change community is also helping keep up attention on the issues around clean cookstoves. Today, clean cookstove project promoters sell carbon credits in the voluntary market on the higher efficiences these stoves offer compared to existing practice. It is excepted that clean burning cookstoves with biochar producing capacity will in the future obtain carbon credits on the capability that biochar offer for long term sequestration of CO2.
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We do stove demonstrations
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A Peko Pe stove user
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Waste biomass as corncobs
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Tinsmiths at work, producing the Peko Pe
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The Peko Pe 6 liter
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The Sawduster
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Pellets for use in cookstoves