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Were excited to share with you the collective results ofPartners efforts in 2009. PCIA Partners annual resultsreports provide a snapshot of their ongoing hard workand dedication. So far 54 Partners working in 61

countries have submitted reports on their 2009activities. Issue 24 of the PCIA Bulletin highlights theirprogress manufacturing, selling, and testing stoves,accessing carbon finance, scaling operations, and muchmore. 2009 results show how, as a global partnership,we are making significant progress in reducing exposureto indoor air pollution (IAP) from cooking and heatingpractices, and improving the health, livelihood, andquality of life for millions of people living in thedeveloping world.

As seen in their results from 2009 and goals for 2010,reporting Partners are undertaking a diverse range ofactivities that includes: manufacturing and/or selling

approx. 1.4 million appliances; assisting the start up oflocal stove factories and production facilities; conductingpromotional campaigns to increase stove marketability;setting up regional testing centers; promotingalternative fuels such as ethanol, Jatropha andbriquettes from waste materials; preparing certificationprotocols; and pursuing carbon finance.

Even if you did not submit your 2009 results in time forthis publication, your achievements and goals can stillbe counted. Visit http://www.pciaonline.org/results/2009/submit to fill out a report on behalf of yourorganization. Partner results will be presented at the2011 PCIA Forum, and complete results reporting isrequired of all organizations requesting consideration for

financial support to attend the Forum. In addition, theresults reports are helping us: identify speakers andcase studies for the 2011 Forum; recognize Partnerachievements at the Forum; and guide future PCIA

work.Ultimately, the collective efforts of the Partners and thePartnership have had profound impacts on improvedhealth, family economics, and quality of life; reducedpoverty and impact on the global and local environment;and increased job opportunities. However, we still havemuch more to do. Join us for the 5th BiennialPartnership for Clean Indoor Air Forum in February,2011 in Lima, Peru, where more than 300 householdenergy and health leaders will convene to share theirsuccesses, and leverage resources and expertise togenerate even greater results. We hope to see youthere!

PCIA Bulletin - 2009 Results Reporting

This quarterly newsletter provides updates on the activities of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air (PCIA) and itsPartners to improve health, livelihood and quality of life by reducing exposure to indoor air pollution, primarily amongwomen and children, from household energy use. Currently, over 380 governments, public and private organizations,and multilateral institutions are working together to increase the use of affordable, reliable, clean, efficient, and safehome cooking and heating practices. Visit www.pciaonline.org to join!

August 2010 Issue 24

Feature Articles (Partner Highlights) ....... p. 2

- S toveTec at Scale ................................ p. 2

- SNVs N ational Bio gas Program mes ... p. 3

- SCA Promo ting Integrat ed Cook ing .... p. 4

- TWP Suppo rting Haiti Reli ef ............... p. 7

- Aprovecho: Stove Design & Testing .... p. 8

- Ber keley A ir: Science B ased M &E ....... p. 9

Part ner Prof ile Updat e Ca mpai gn ............. p. 12

Happenings ............................................... p . 15

- KP T Tra ini ng Update ........................... p. 16

- Conduc ting the WBT and CCT ............. p. 17

- EPAs Second Round of Stove Testing p. 18

- A New Global All ian ce ......................... p. 19

- Stove Cam p 201 0 ................................ p. 20

Map : Countr ies of I mpl emen tati on .......... p. 22

In This Issue

1.38 m ill ion stovesweremanufactured and/ or sold by reporting

Partners in 2009 .Look inside for

charts, graphs and statisticsfrom 2009 results reporting!
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FEATURE ARTICLES - Partner Highlights from 2009 Results Reporting

StoveTecBen West; [email protected]://www.pciaonline.org/stovetecStoveTec reports that Shengzhou StoveManufacturer (SSM) manufactured and sold100,000 stoves in 2009 , impacting over 500,000people. How has the factory developed thecapacity to manufacture this high volume of

stoves?

StoveTec is in a joint venture with SSM in China with theability to mass produce high quality, low cost Rocket typestoves designed by Dr. Larry Winiarski. The factory cancurrently manufacture over 60,000 stoves per month witheasy ability to extend manufacturing to make over amillion stoves a year.

The factory uses a total quality management productionand operations process for continued improvement in themanufacturing of the stove. The factory has developedseveral innovative techniques to manufacture largenumbers of stoves via proper clay mixing, extrusion,

drying, firing and finishing.

All of this is possible because of the work of theAprovecho Research Center (ARC), which worked withthe factory owners through various stove iterations andset up a new laboratory at the factory to test the stovesfor emissions and fuel efficiency, using internationallyapproved standard testing protocols.

StoveTec has been proactive in testing its stoves.What have you learned from t esting, and whattangible improvements in t echnology, or in otherareas of your business, has testing m ade possible?

How have you incorporated test results into yourmarketing materials?

Testing allows StoveTec to make continuous productimprovements not only for our base product line, but alsoto make specific improvements for specific cookingcircumstances. For example, cooking pots can be veryregionally specific. Pots used in Haiti have a very roundedbottom that reduces the efficiency a cook would see withthe flat bottom pot that our stove was designed for. With

lab testing we can make quick improvements to ourproducts to accommodate the needs of our clients andprojects around the world.

How im portant is carbon finance for scaling upyour stove sales and manufacturing? Wh atprogress have you made towards obtaining carbonfinance?

Carbon financing is very important for scaling up ourinitiatives. It is well documented through third partymarket testing that while a good portion of a local marketin a developing country (approximately 20% of themarket) can pay for the full landed cost of our stove(landed includes shipping costs), stove subsidization viacarbon financing can help reduce the cost of the stove $2-$5 and dramatically improve a cooks ability to purchasea stove (approximately 50% - 70% of the market).We have a dozen partners pursuing stove projects thatwill utilize carbon financing. All of these stove projectsare in the early stages and have not yet received carbonfinancing.

What role do you see public-private partnerships

playing in expanding the reach of your stoves? Areyou interested in partnering with countrygovernments? W hat challenges and successeshave you experienced to date?

Although weve had various discussions with thisstakeholder group, public-private partnerships (PPP) havenot had a role in projects to date. These partnerships are

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We chose 6 of the 54 Partners that submitted results reports for in-depth interviews about their 2009 results and goals for2010. The organizations were selected based on particularly interesting details provided in their results reports, and the factthat they represent a geographic and thematic cross section of PCIA Partners. StoveTec is manufacturing and selling stovesat scale, SNV is working on biogas digesters and national-level standards in addition to improved stoves, while Solar ConnectAssociation promotes both solar cookers and biomass stoves. Berkeley Air Monitoring Group provides field-based monitoringservices, Aprovecho Research Center focuses on stove design and testing, and Trees, Water, and People is participating inthe relief effort in Haiti and building regional partnerships to scale up their operations. In the following pages youll hearfrom each of these organizations individually.

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increasingly of interest as we continue to develop breadthand capacity. StoveTec and our partners have specificneeds and ideas that we believe PPP groups would findbeneficial to their metrics, therefore we are very

interested in partnering with country governments as wellas other stakeholders.StoveTecs mission is to deliver the best available cookstoves to cooks around the world that need them. We areinterested in any partnerships that will help us worktoward achieving our mission.

StoveTec has an interest in becoming more thansimply a stove manufacturing company. What aresome of StoveTec other strengths, and what isyour long term vision for the organization? StoveTec currently embodies reasonably good businessskills. In the future we would l ike to strengthen ourbusiness skill set and work harder to help our partnersdevelop and expand their projects. Within the mission ofour organizations we imagine that StoveTec will be ableto pursue synergistic social ventures or stove relatedbusiness functions such as brokering project funding,assisting with and developing carbon credit projects, orsetting up micro finance opportunities as a few examples.

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SN VPrakash Ghimire; [email protected]://www.pciaonline.org/snv

You have work ed with three stove testingorganizations to evaluate your biogas digestersperformance. Describe your experience w ithtesting, what you learned, and how you used theresults to improve your product.

SNV commissioned three institutes, Chengdu EnergyEnvironment International Cooperation (CEEIC),Department of Renewable Energy Sources (DRES),

Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture andTechnology, India; and Kiwa Gastec Certification(GASTEC), Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; to test samplesof biogas stoves and lamps. Samples of stoves wereobtained from eight countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia,Ethiopia, India, Lesotho, Nepal, Rwanda and Vietnam;and lamps were supplied from four countries: Cambodia,Ethiopia, India and Nepal.

The test results provided information on physicalappearance, air tightness, biogas consumption (heatrate), flame transmission, combustion stability, thermalefficiency, concentration of carbon monoxide in smoke,wind resistance, fire resistance, surface temperature,

noise, durability, structure, and material and surfacefinishing, in addition to marking/branding, packaging andinstructions for users of appliances.

On the basis of thermal efficiency, the stoves fromBangladesh and Cambodia met the prescribed minimumefficiency of 55% under both the Chinese and the Indianstandards. The stove from Rwanda was very close to theprescribed efficiency. None of the stoves and lamps metstandards for carbon monoxide concentration in smoke/flue gas.

What advice do you have for other organizationsjust beginning to test their products?

Many developing countries are promoting fixed domebiodigesters. Considering high but variable gas pressure,and high content of methane in biogas, questions havebeen raised about the suitability of existing standardsbeing used in China and other countries. Therefore, thereis a need to develop specific standards for appliancessuited to fixed dome biodigesters. Each country shouldformulate its own standard specification after consideringfactors, such as cooking vessels, food habits, cookingenvironment etc. Expertise should be sought for drafting

standard specification in consultation with localmanufacturers and technical institutions.

Your results report mentioned w orking to complywith national standards in 14 countries in Africaand Asia. What challenges and successes have youhad? What steps could be taken to create a morefavorable regulatory environment for your work?


Another satisfied customer

Construction of a fixed dome biodigester
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In most of the countries where SNV is supportingbiodigester programmes there are no existing nationalstandards related to biogas appliances. This is why CEEICfollowed a testing procedure prescribed in the Chinesestandard specifications; DRES used the proceduredescribed in the Indian standard specification, andGASTEC developed its own methodology for both stoveand lamp. However, keeping in view the wide differencesin test results for the same sample, SNV believes thatthere is need to have national standards that take intoaccount the national/local context while formulating suchstandards. SNV, through the national biodigesterprogrammes, is supporting the formulation of standardsrelated to biogas appliances. These standards are used asthe yardstick in all the national programmes. However,little progress has been made so far to brand them asnational standards. Willingness as well as commitmentsfrom government standardization authorities to work withbiodigester programmes in branding the programmestandards as national standards is vital.

SNV reported almost 55,000 biodigestersmanufactured in 2009. What systems do you havein place to track the number of digestersmanufactured? Do you track their use in the fieldafter installation? If so, what have you learnedabout digesters long term performance, use andmaintenance needs?

SNV supported the construction of 53,617 family sizedbiodigesters in 2009. Till the end of 2009, a total of299,908 biodigesters have been supported under theframework of SNV supported biodigester programmes inAsia and Africa. SNV puts special emphasis on building

the capacity of implementing partners to monitor thefunctional status as well as effects of biodigesters onusers. Maintaining quality is always the top priority.Biodigester construction companies and mason teamswho wish to cooperate with a national biodigesterprogramme and benefit from the subsidy scheme, will berequired to seek recognition from the nationalprogramme office. Such recognition is subject to a seriesof strict conditions.

Quality control on plants in operation and underconstruction is a key aspect of quality enforcement andthe long-term success of the programme. An inspectionform is filled out for each plant inspected, and the

resulting data is entered in a central database to monitorresults over time. Each year Biogas User Surveys areconducted for at least 100 randomly sampled biodigestersto monitor the functional status as well as effects ofbiodigesters on users. Likewise, periodic technical auditsare carried out to monitor technical performance ofbiodigesters. Routine evaluation of the programme fromthird parties is an integral part of the programme cycle.

What steps are you taking to ensure thesustainability of country level biogas programsafter SNVs direct involvement is over? Inparticular, how do you encourage thedevelopment of local technical expertise and buildthe capacity of small businesses?

The ultimate objective of all activities undertaken in the

framework of national biodigester programmes supportedby SNV is to arrive at a commercial biogas sector that canbe sustained by capable stakeholders and financedwithout any Official Development Assistance (ODA). SNVbelieves that building viable domestic biogas programmesevolves around three important aspects: programmaticsustainability, technical sustainability, and financialsustainability.

Aiming for programmatic sustainability, SNV follows anintegrated approach to optimize institutionalarrangements and to strengthen the capacities of allactors in the sector. The role of the private sector iscrucial. SNV aims to build on organizational and

institutional capacities already available in the countryand to strengthen these assets through local capacitybuilding organizations. Hence, SNV does not implementactivities directly, limiting its permanent deployment ofmanpower to a small number of biogas advisers perprogramme. Technical sustainability is pursued byintroducing a rigorous, research and development as wellas quality management component to the programmewhich ensures that supply-side actors remain fullyaccountable to their customers. Quality managementdoes not limit itself to technical aspects only, but includesa promotional message, user satisfaction, and after-salesservice. The financial sustainability of large-scaledomestic biogas programmes is more complex to achieve,

foremost requiring national governments to contribute tothe costs. Carbon benefits need to become a sustainablesource of income for biogas sectors.

SNV believes that sector development is a long-termcommitment and cannot be achieved overnight. A long-term effort of between 7 to 20 years may be required tocreate the required critical business mass in the biogassector.


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Solar Connect AssociationKawesa Mukasa; [email protected]

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Solar Connect Association reports selling both

household solar cookers and improved stoves.How did you decide to sell both, and how did t hedecision affect your business? What differences doyou notice between customers who purchaseimproved stoves versus those who purchase solarcookers? How many households purchase both?

We decided to sell solar cookers and improved cookstoves because prospective solar cooker users alwaysasked What if there is no sun?, What if it rains?, Howwill we cook at night?, etc. We decided to marketintegrated cooking where it would be preferable to usesolar cookers and hay baskets during sunshine, andimproved wood/charcoal stoves when it is not possible touse solar cookers. This decision increased sales for solarcookers but also required more space for the storage andsale of improved cook stoves which are picking up now.We sell on average 120 cook stoves per month.More educated customers easily purchase solar cookersand need little explanation, while the less educatedreadily purchase improved cook stoves because theyeasily relate them to firewood and charcoal savings. Solarcookers are also easily purchased by people with moreincome while improved cook stoves are purchased by alllevels of society. 1,070 households purchased both solarcookers and improved stoves in 2009.

What is your approach to marketing? How do youinform households about the dangers of IAP an dbenefits of solar cooking and integrated cooking?

We go directly go to the villages and trading centersusing local women (Marketers) selected from targetedvillages. We demonstrate at our Production and Resource

Center located in the village of Kikokwa. We also have ashop in Mbarara where demonstrations take place everyday throughout the year. We do home visits and homeparties where awareness campaigns result in sales.We ask women and girls how they feel being in smokefilled cooking places. Many are not happy with the smokeas it irritates their eyes, makes them cough, and causesthroat diseases especially affecting pregnant mothers andchildren. Households are informed of the benefits ofintegrated cooking including saving money and time,cleanliness, improved health, and saving wood andcharcoal given our big families in Uganda.

How m any production and distribution points doyou operate in Uganda? What are your plans toexpand in the future?

We have one production unit in Mbarara District and weare trying to increase its capacity to serve the whole ofUganda. We have 14 distribution points in villages. Each

home of a marketer is a distribution point and we have14 local women Marketers in 14 villages in MbararaDistrict.

In the future we plan to increase production capacity andquality of our products and then market the productsthroughout the country starting with Kampala District andthe nearby districts. We will recruit more competent staffand collaborate with other stakeholders interested in thetype of products we distribute. The problem is that bankshere are not well sensitized to give soft loans to energybusinesses like ours which is an obstacle to expansion.

SCA reported selling 1,460 biom ass stoves, 1,980

solar cookers, and 980 hay baskets in 2009 . Whatsystems do you have in place to track sales? Doyou track their ongoing use in the field? I f so, howlong do they remain in use?

Sales are tracked by the marketer in each village and atour Resource Center in Kikokwa village near Mbararatown. We record how many units are produced and soldusing an Excel spreadsheet.

We track their ongoing use in the field by making anevaluation report at end of every year. The evaluationasks questions about levels of satisfaction, number oftimes the product is used per week, family size, amount

of money and quantity of firewood/charcoal saved, andcomparison of efficiency of different stoves (we acquirefrom different suppliers). Marketers who live amongstend-users also monitor on-going use frequently (about 2times a month). During home visits and home parties inbeneficiary households, we hear the opinions, remarksand questions of end users, and through all theinformation gathered we are able to know the degree ofuse of the products we distribute in the villages. Solar


Mrs. Mariam makes a hay basket, arranging differentlayers of grass, plastic, newspaper, cotton, sponge and

old newspaper inside the basket.

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cook kits remain in use for about a year, while parabolicsolar cookers we get from China are used for about 4years. Box Cookers work for many years and Lorenastoves need repairs after 2 years, while rocket stovesneed repairs after 1 -2 years of use.

SCA is working on opening a new distributionpoint in Kampala to serve clients throughoutUganda. How will you t ransport products to thepoint of sale? What challenges are youencountering as you set up the distribution pointand develop supply chains for materials andfinished stoves?

We shall transport products from the production unit inMbarara to a new distribution point in Kampala using

public transport (buses and lorries) which is cheap. Fortransportation of products to clients in the villages, weshall have to slowly raise funds and purchase a pick-uptruck.

Hiring a big enough depot is still expensive for us. Pricesof materials change often due to inflation yet it is difficultto increase prices for customers. The products we havebeen selling in Mbarara were subsidized by Wild Geeseand Solar Cooking Foundation Netherlands, but therewill be no subsidy for products sold to the rest of thecountry from the distribution point in Kampala. Thismeans the price of products in Kampala and other partsof the country will be different from that of Mbarara.Potential clients elsewhere know how much we sell inMbarara but are not aware of the European subsidy wereceived to reduce prices there.


Partners By the NumbersThis issue features six By the Numbers boxes that give

quick facts about the impact PCIA Partners are havingaround the world. The organizations featured submittedcomplete, timely results reports, and are noteworthy forthe scale or type of their activities. Ugastove is an Africa-based organization manufacturing at scale; ReliefInternational sold over 80,000 biomas stoves in 2009;and Wana Energy Solutions promotes LPG stoves andfuel. Proyecto Mirador is a smaller organization accessingcarbon finance in Honduras; EnDev Bolivia is workingwith Government and local stakeholders to develop anational level stove program; and Asho Jati Gore ispromoting biomass stoves and household bigogasdigesters in Bangladesh. As you read this issue, keep aneye out for By the Numbers boxes like the one here to

learn more about these organizations great work.

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Uganda Stove Manufacturers Ltd(UGASTOVE LTD), formally calledUrban Community DevelopmentAgencies Ltd (UCODEA), is engagedin production of energy savingstoves for households & institutionsor organizations (both fixed and

portable) in Uganda. They also buildincinerators, charcoal briquettes,fireless box cookers and many more.

UGASTOVEs mission is to promotesocio-economic development among the urban poor byengaging them in innovative environmentally friendlyeconomic activities. This is reflected in current projects,the staff employed, and future plans. In 2010 UGASTOVEis planning to continue mechanizing the manufacturingprocesses and eliminating the use of hand tools to reducedrudgery and improve product quality.

Primary goal: Fuel savings (with improved biomass

energy saving stoves)Manufactured: 22,823 household biomass stoves, 55

institutional biomass stoves and 18biomass baking ovens in 2009

Beneficiaries: 283,615 people throughout Uganda

2010 Goal: More than 55% thermal efficiency on thestoves and plan to manufacture 155,000stoves by the end of 2010

Uganda Stove Manufacturers Limited(UGASTOVE LTD)

By the Numbers

Partner organizations vary in manufacturing and salescapacity. More than 50% of Partners who reportedmanufacturing and/or selling appliances, are working witha volume of less than 5,000 per year; but othersmanufacture and/or sell hundreds of thousands. Well gettips from these top producers in future issues!

Partners Reaching Scale
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Trees, Water & PeopleSebastian Africano; [email protected]://www.pciaonline.org/twp

You have worked wit h two stove testingorganizations to evaluate your stoves'performance. What have you learned from stovetesting? How have you used the test results topromote stoves to other organizations? Whattechnical improvements have you been able tomake as a result of testing?

We have conducted both cross-sectional KitchenPerformance Tests and paired-sample Controlled CookingTests on our stoves in Central America, and have thusbeen able to validate the fuel and carbon savings thatthey generate for users in the field. The most importantinformation that we gleaned from repeated testing,however, was how flexible we have to be with stovedesign when dealing with different populations - evenregionally, or within the same country. Different cooks

have different needs, and our stoves need to respond tothose needs. As a result of testing in the field we'vebeen able to adjust and improve features of the stovesover time, and increase usage rates as a result. Themore end-users you connect with during testing, themore you learn about the products you are putting intothe field, and how those products can serve a broaderswath of the population.

What type of biomass stove do you promote? Howlong do the stoves last in the field, and what stepsare you taking to improve their durability?

Most of the 40,000+ stoves we have built in the past 12years have been brick & mortar griddle stoves withchimneys, built into a family's home. I have seen stoveslast between 3 -7 years, and can last longer with propermaintenance and refurbishment. These are completelydifferent to implement than the less-expensive one ortwo-pot-cookers that you see around the world. Onereason is their increased cost, which is higher due to theamount of materials required, and another reason is

because it's a significant switch from cooking over anopen fire. When you put a griddle between the pot andthe flame, heat-transfer efficiency goes down, andcooking times increase. If a cook is switching from usinga traditional griddle stove for everything, the change isminimal, but if the cook is switching from an open fire,the adaptation almost always takes longer. The otherreason is that a team of 2 builders can only install 2-3 ina day, making scale more challenging to reach. Thebenefits, however, are over 80% reductions in IAP, cleanpots, an aesthetically pleasing and complete cookingsolution, and a sanitary kitchen environment. The valuethat the cook places on these benefits, which are tangibleand immediately visible, makes all the difference in quickadaptation to the stove.

What role is Trees, Water & P eople playing in therelief effort in Haiti? How do hou sehold energyand improved biomass stoves support the reliefand reconstruction effort?

TWP was able to send 432 two-door StoveTec stoves toHaiti immediately following the quake, and recentlydonated a container of 1,344 more of these stoves toInternational Lifeline Fund. We had been working onstoves in Haiti since 2007, and were on our way to Haitito co-host a national conference on biomass stoves whenthe earthquake hit. What we learned during our 4 weektrip there in April/May 2010, was that stoves need to besafe, portable and able to cook for larger groups ofpeople (10+) if they are to find success in the currentemergency environment. Life in the camps for theinternally displaced is congested - tents literally touch oneanother, and people cook both between tents, and insidetheir tents. These factors are important to consider when

thinking about what stove to implement, as we need toprovide a safe environment for families cooking severaltimes a day. We were able to train a team of 8 monitors,along with our project leads, Elizabeth Sipple and CalitoAmbois, who have worked with TWP since 2007.Currently our plans include partnering with InternationalLifeline Fund to construct a stove factory and team inHaiti that will provide employment to a host of Haitianworkers, appropriate products for both firewood andcharcoal users, as well as training, monitoring andcoordination services for other organizationsimplementing stoves in the country.

TWP is currently pursuing carbon finance. How

will carbon finance help scale up your cook stoveactivities?

Carbon finance will allow us to increase the impact of ourprograms in a variety of ways. Primarily I see carbonfinance as a vehicle to increasing stove durability andlongevity in the field. Repair and refurbishment of stovesis a challenge for all stove programs, in terms of theinstitutional capacity required to do it successfully over a


Commercial tortilla producers are one of theprincipally targeted beneficiary groups for JustaStoves and other TWP Ecostoves in Central America.

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While most reporting Partners listedIAP reductionastheir primary goal, Partners have diverse reasons forthe work they do, including other responses, such asbetter livelihoods, safety and policy/regulations.

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Aprovecho Research Center Dean Still; [email protected]

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Aprovechos goals for this year include developing90% emission reduction stoves, improvedcharcoal stoves, improved pots, and decreasedblack carbon stoves. Please describe your effortsto achieve these goals.

Responding to requirements for stoves that protect healthand for stoves that address climate change, Aprovechohas been testing and developing various new cookingtechnologies. Improving heat transfer to the pot meansthat less energy is needed to boil and simmer. Improvedpots and pot skirts, submerging pots, etc. dramaticallyreduce wood used and emissions. Improving heattransfer often does not add cost to the stove. Then byimproving mixing of air, gases, and smoke 90% emissionreductions are possible. Black carbon can be reduced bylowering the temperature of the flames. It's great thatnature made fire easy to clean!

Aprovecho also collaborates with regional testingcenters. What roles do regional testing centerscurrently play in the assessment and developmentof improved stoves?

Without the portable emissions monitoring system

(PEMS), an emissions hood in a suitcase developed byNordica MacCarty at Aprovecho, we wouldn't be able toquantify emissions and develop better cookingtechnologies. That's why the regional testing centers withPEMS are important to us, so that folks can have thetools to make regionally appropriate low fuel use, lowemission stoves.

What vision do you have for global and regionaltesting centers? What would you like Partnerorganizations to know about the services,equipment and expertise of Aprovecho and otherstove testing centers?

The PEMS, an emissions hood, and the IAP box, thatmeasures CO and PM in a house or at the nose andmouth of the cook, are relatively inexpensive. Our hope isthat we can help partners to use both instruments toaccurately measure emissions using the Water BoilingTest (WBT) and the Controlled Cooking Test (CCT). Ourstaff can help folks to know how to improve both heattransfer and combustion efficiency. A Regional TestingCenter like Zamarano University in Honduras can do thesame.


broad geographical area, and in a timely fashion. If acombustion chamber needs replacing after three years,and no one is there to replace it, and the user doesn'tfeel confident enough to replace it themselves, the stovecan quickly fall out of use. Using carbon finance tocreate regional stove centers, with qualified personnel torepair and refurbish stoves locally, or to providereplacement parts for communities of stove users willgreatly increase the longevity of the stoves, and byextension the continued reduction of CO2 emissions. Thisis a virtuous cycle that could fill a very important gap forstove programs and beneficiaries alike, and which wouldbe made possible with funds secured through the carbonmarket.

TWP reports working on building stronger regionalpartnerships. What types of organizations are youinterested in partnering with ? How will thesepartnerships support your long term goals,including manufacturing 8,000 stoves in 2010?

We like to partner with forward-thinking organizationswho are passionate about transferring skills andtechnology to their beneficiary base. Our programs havealways revolved around developing self sufficiency in thecommunities where we work, and we seek partners whohave innovative ideas and approaches to accomplishingthis. An example would be the FORCUENCAS project - awatershed protection project funded by the EU in

collaboration with the Hondurangovernment. FORCUENCAS worked with our Honduranpartner AHDESA to develop an integrated strategy forbuilding over 8,000 of our open source JustaStoves. Because of their 10 years of experience andproven track record in implementing Justa Stove projects,AHDESA was placed in a supervisory position on theproject, and trained over 100 builders from severalorganizations in the proper installation and socializationprocess involved in making a stove interventionsuccessful. Building local capacity is paramount to ouroperations, and we look for partners that value a similarapproach.

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What recomm endations do you have for Partnerorganizations which have not t ested their stovesto get started with the process? What are theadvantages and disadvantages of engaging a thirdparty for testing?

This is a complicated question. I think that it's better forpartners to do their own testing leading to better stovesin use. However, it is necessary to know how to operatethe equipment and then how to change stoves to use lesswood, make less smoke, carbon monoxide, etc. We cantest and improve a stove here for $3,000 and send backdrawings of what was done. But we can't ask the cooks ifthe changes are ok with them. Cooks need to give atleast 50% of the input into the design process. So, theimprovement process can go back and forth between laband field, sometimes.

What is the business case for investing in stovetesting? What other benefits have you found?What have organizations learned by investing intesting that has allowed them to improve theirproduct or better meet end users needs?

Carbon credits and other sources of funding require realsavings verified by third party analysis. I hear that GTZ isthinking that a new charcoal stove has to be at least 40%better than the traditional stove for a project to start.Doesn't any project want at least 40% improvement? Toget this level of improved performance requires testingwith the WBT and CCT, hopefully before the new stove isintroduced. Luckily, testing can be done at little or nocost when only fuel savings are being considered! IfAprovecho can help, please let us know. We look forwardto seeing so many of our good friends at the PCIA Forumin Peru!


Berkeley Air Monitoring GroupSimone Brant; [email protected]://www.pciaonline.org/berkeleyair

Berkeley Air lists key goals of providing highquality, scientific monitoring and evaluation ofappropriate household energy technologies andapproaches for developing countries and helpingclients identify and replicate successful projects.In your experience, what comm on characteristicsdo successful household energy interventionshave?

Most importantly, a successful project has a stove that isreally ready to be disseminated. This means that thedistributer has done its homework on what people cookand want in a stove and the stove has been through acomprehensive testing and design cycle incorporatinguser feedback. Additionally, successful programs will havemechanisms in place so that the customer invests in thestove, but does not have to bear the entire cost burden.Use of smart subsidies or microfinance allows a higherquality stove with lasting impacts to reach lower incomehouseholds.

What w ould you like Partner organizations toknow about the services, equipment and expertiseof Berkeley Air Monitoring Group?

Berkeley Air is a social venture based in California, USA,with affiliates in several African and Asian countries,founded by David Pennise and Dana Charron withsupport from the University of California Berkeley. We areinvested in protecting global health and climate byproviding high quality, scientific monitoring andevaluation of appropriate household energy technologiesand approaches for developing countries. We provide the

expertise and skills required to critically assess the effectsof household energy practices on indoor air pollution andhealth, greenhouse gas emissions (carbon creditgeneration), household fuel use, socioeconomic indicatorsand time-activity patterns, and technology adoption andusage.

Our services include study design, field sampling, dataanalysis, report writing, presentation and training. Weoften provide these services together with regional orlocal partners to build local monitoring capacity and keepcosts affordable. We also sell the UCB particle monitor, aportable, datalogging monitor for use in indoorenvironments and will soon begin offering stove use

monitors (SUMS) for sale. As adoption is often a complexprocess, these logging temperature sensors allow us tomeasure stove use by tracking the temperature of thestove over time.

Many PCI A Partners are interested in the types ofindicators that Berkeley Air m easures but lack theresources to engage a third party. What init ialsteps can these organizations take to monitor andevaluate the impact of their programs? Whatresources, equipment, and training are availablefor these organizations?

A good place to find basic information on monitoring and

evaluation is the PCIA website [see http://www.pciaonline.org/testing]. Over the past several years,Berkeley Air and others have conducted several trainingsessions including regional Indoor Air Pollution andHousehold Energy Monitoring Workshops, sessions at thePCIA Forum, and a recent webinar on KitchenPerformance Tests. The WHO Catalogue of Methods isanother excellent resource that covers methods forqualitative assessments of household energy impacts.


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An organization that wanted to start evaluating on itsown might begin with conducting focus groups,interviews, and/or Water Boiling Tests to get initialfeedback on fuel usage and costs and impressions of thestove. These pilot results will help the organizationdetermine what indicators they could measure and whatsamples sizes would be required to document impacts.

For a more complex evaluation, one option is to find thirdparty funding. For example, the PCIA is currently fundingKPT and CCT training for several organizations. It is alsopossible for organizations with similar stoves in adjacentlocations to jointly fund an evaluation. One of BerkeleyAirs goals is to build local capacity, and we would behappy to help support PCIA Partners in their evaluations.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of

engaging a third party organization for monitoringand evaluation?

An experienced monitoring organization brings aconsistent and proven methodological approach, fit-for-purpose instruments, and advanced quantitative analysisskills. A third-party organization also brings follow-through. Often organizations get excited about collectingdata, but dont have time or capacity to analyze andreport it.

Independent third-party program evaluation isincreasingly viewed as best practice by many grant-makers and investors since it produces high quality,

credible information that supports sound data-drivendecision-making. We have heard from our clients thathaving independent results has facilitated the verificationprocess for carbon offsets from cookstoves.

Of course, the major disadvantage is cost. Additionally,an organization seeking to build in-house monitoringcapacity will want to integrate a monitoring consultantinto their operations in a way that also builds internalcapacity.

What changes would you lik e to see to existingmethodologies for developing carbon offsets fromimproved cook stoves?

Many cookstove projects are currently using the GoldStandard methodology to document voluntary emissionreductions credits. We have suggested threeamendments to this methodology.

1. Include more guidance to ensure representativesampling, appropriate application of adjustment factors,and an improved approach to uncertainty and theapplication of conservativeness.2. Use field-based emissions measurements eithermeasured specifically for individual projects or via morecredible field-based defaults.3. Implement a more credible, transparent, consistentnon-renewable biomass approach and methods.We would also like to see more opportunities forcookstove projects in the Clean Development Mechanism

(CDM), particularly through a methodology that uses amore realistic baseline than the current fossil-fuel oneand requires some field measurements.

Finally, all cookstove carbon initiatives would benefit fromincreased capacity among auditors to validate and verifystove projects efficiently and effectively.

At what stage in carbon project development is itmost appropriate for organizations to engageBerkeley Air?

Berkeley Airs work in the field begins once there havebeen some initial sales or dissemination. However, it is

good to contact us earlier in the planning process, so wecan begin monitoring as soon as the program is ready.



Berkeley Air staff monitoring emissions from a 2-pot traditional mud stove in Tamil Nadu, India

Indoor air pollution sampling equipment including aUCB Particle Monitor

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What is the business case for investing inmonitoring and evaluation? What other benefitshave you found? What have organizations learnedby investing in monitoring that has allowed themto improve their program or better meet endusers needs?

We live in a results-oriented society. Developmentorganizations, philanthropists and commercial investorsall want to know that the stoves they are supportingperform as advertised on the ground. Over and over

again, we observe that field results are very differentfrom lab test results. Investing in monitoring andevaluation from the outset allows a program to knowwhat is happening on the ground, avoid nasty surprises,and use the proof of their success to attract financialsupport.

Through our evaluations, several organizations havelearned that their stoves were either not ready fordistribution or not performing at the level they had hopedin terms of indoor air pollution reductions. Both stovesare currently being redesigned, and we expect this willlead to long-term success.


Reporting partnerswork in a total of 61

countries throughoutthe globe. See page22 for a map!

Where do PCIA Partners work?

Asho Jati Gore (AJAG) works to empower poor and vulnerable people, especially women, by making them capable, self-sufficient, and self-governed. AJAG does this through building the capacity of local institutions, promoting the utilization oflocal resources, and creating need based problem solving programsinvolving skilled, trained and experienced staff. Focus areas includedisposal of household solid waste and garbage, renewable energy,ICS, and biogas implementation.

Primary goal: Indoor air pollution reduction

Sold: 717 household biomass stoves and 11institutional biomass stoves in 2009

Beneficiaries: 5,950 people in Bangladesh

Thermal Efficiency: Targeting 90%

2010 Goal: Sell 3,050 stoves

Asho Jati Gore

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Success So FarThank you to everyone who has updated their profile sofar as part of our first ever Partner Profile Updatecampaign. Since launching the PCIA in 2002,membership has grown from a handful of foundingorganizations to currently more than 380 organizationsspanning the globe. While its always been a challengemaintaining an up-to-date database of Partner contactsand activities, its more important than ever today. Ourgoal is to keep 100% of Partner Profiles current withinthe past year. As of August 1, 116 organizations (30% ofPartners) have up-to-date profiles (within the past 12months). We encourage all Partners who havent madeupdates since August of 2009 to log in to the PCIAwebsite and let us know what youve been up to. If yourorganization has not updated its profile in the past 12months, you will need to do so prior to applying forairfare support to the 2011 Forum. Please read theinstructions below for updating your organizationsprofile.

Prize WinnersSince we launched our Partner Profile update campaignearly this year, weve announced three rounds of prizesfor those Partners who made substantive updates. Thewinners of these prizes were announced on the PCIAwebsite.

1st Round Winners(Each has won round trip airfare for a member of theirorganization to attend the 2011 PCIA Forum)

Impact Carbon

Solar Household Energy, Inc.

2nd Round Winners

(various prizes, see below) Proyecto Mirador

Lodging expenses for one participant at the 2011PCIA Forum

Mfaminy en Conservation SocietyAn organizational profile in thisPCIA Bulletin (see pg.13)

Odey Renewable Energy Technology Company

Limited Highlighted profile status on the PCIA homepage

The Charcoal Project Highlighted profile status on the PCIA homepage

3 rd Round Winners

(Each as won an organizational profile in thisPCIABulletin; see pg. 14)

Foundation for Sustainable Technologies

(FoST)

China Agricultural University's Energy

Engineering and Low Carbon Technology Lab/Renewable Resources Lab


Relief International/EWV combats poverty by helping small producers and other entrepreneurs build sustainablebusinesses that create jobs and increase productivity, market opportunities and incomes. They achieve this by

expanding access to appropriate technologies, technical assistance knowledge and finance. Relief International/EWVhas a demonstrated track record of mass sales of consumer-oriented designed stoves that use less biomass, reduceindoor air pollution, last longer, and are safer than traditional stoves.

In 2009, EnterpriseWorks/VITA merged with Relief Internationalfurther expanding the range of services it offers to those that needthem most. The merged organization is currently working in morethan 30 countries.


Sold: 80,655 household biomass stoves in 2009

Stoves reduce: CO by 36%, particulate matter by 54%

Beneficiaries: Over 500,000 in 2009


Relief International & Enterprise Works/ VITA (EWV)

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Updating your Partner Profile

If you already have a username and password:1. Log in to the PCIA Web site using the username andpassword you set up when you registered. If you haveforgotten your password, please click on the Requestnew password link on the homepage.2. Once logged in, you can edit your organizationsprofile. If you have trouble logging in, please contact usat [email protected].

If you do not have a username and passw ord: (orcan't remember your username)1. Email us with your desired username, initial password,first and last name, and the organization name.2. You will receive a confirmation email with detailedinstructions. Be sure follow instructions to change yourpassword so that only you know it.3. Log in to the PCIA website to update your profile andadd your colleagues as secondary contacts.


Organizational Profiles for Partner Profile UpdateWinners

Mfaminyen Conservation Society

The Mfaminyen Conservation Society (MCS) is a Nigerian

community-based organization with the mission topromote the cultural heritage in the Mfaminyencommunities land and their environment throughfostering the spirit of communal participation inconservation and the sustainable use of cultural andbiological resources with equal involvement of men,women, and youths. The Mfaminyen communities are inAkamkpa and Etung Local Government Areas in CrossRiver State, and have a common boundary with theneighboring Ejagham Forest in Cameroon that links withthe Korup National Park.

MCS completed the pilot phase of its Nigerian ImprovedCook Stove Program, using the Ekwuk stove developedby Mfaminyens Linus Ita, and is looking to scale up. Asummary report from this pilot is available for downloadfrom their Partner Profile on the PCIA website underRelevant Publications. A series of Ekwuk stove

construction training workshops were held in thesecommunities as part of the pilot. Five months after theworkshops, over one hundred women and men who builtand used the stoves were interviewed. Their feedbackprompted a second edition of the training manual andVCDs of these interviews were made and distributed

throughout the rainforest communities to increase thestature of both the stove and the people who use it. Theinterviews were complemented by a quantitative surveywhich found that the average Ekwuk stove saved at least2,610 lbs or 14 cubic meters of fire wood per year. Amonitoring visit to all eight communities 14 months afterthe initial workshops estimated over 4,500 Ekwuk stoveshad been built. Roughly speaking, these stoves have thepotential to reduce firewood usage and CO2 emissions byover 10,000 tons/year. However, the impact is perhapsbest described by the stove users themselves in the pilotsummary report.

Please see Mfaminyen Conservation Societys PCIA profilefor more information, including the pilot summary reportand a construction manual for the Ekwuk Stove: http://www.pciaonline.org/mfaminyen-conservation-society.

For those Partners who reported manufacturing/constructing appliances in 2009, the overwhelming majority (forboth Household and Institutional appliances) are Biomass stoves. Below is a breakdown by percentage of the types ofappliances reported. Appliances that made up less than 1% are not included.

Breakdown of Household and Institutional Appliances Sold in 2009

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The Foundation for Sustainable Technologies(FoST)FoST is a Nepal-based non-governmental organizationworking in several countries including Afghanistan,Cambodia, India and Nepal since 2002, with the missionto: provide education on renewable and alternativeenergy sources; create awareness on the application ofenergy efficient technologies for cooking; promote theutilization of solar energy for cooking, waterpasteurization and space heating; and empower womenthrough fuel briquette making.

FoSTs achievements include training 300 families insolar cooking, 200 students in solar cooker building frompaper and sheet metal with reflective materials, 500families on solar water pasteurization to protect fromwater-borne diseases, 200 families in solar drying foodstuff, 200 families in energy efficiency including heatretaining technologies, 600 families in firewood efficientstoves, and about 1,000 families in making fuel briquettesfrom waste materials.

FoSTs targets for 2010 include training 100 families onbriquette making, 50 families on solar cooking and solarcooker building, 40 on solar drying, 40 on solar waterpasteurization, and 50 families on mattress weaving usingwaste materials such as grasses, straws, corn wastes,video/cassette tapes, plastics from packaged food,shopping bags etc. FoST encourages older communitymembers (60+) to share their experiences and transferskills to the young generation. Our strategy is to supportthis older age group to show their talents in public so thatthey can be empowered and their products can be easily

marketed. We want to show their hidden skills to theirown families, and neighbors. In Nepal, people over 60feel they are a burden because they cannot support tothe family.

In January 2010 FoST organized a week-long camp tobring together various skilled weavers to transform theirskills into environmentally-sound items such asmattresses, mobile phone bags, water bottle bags, caps,shopping bags, curtains, and musical instruments.

Please see FoSTs profile for more information:http://www.pciaonline.org/FoST including a list of mediahighlights of their work such as the BBC video Cookingwithout Gas which was a runner up for the WorldChallenge Award in 2007.

China Agricultural Universitys Energy Engineeringand Low Carbon Technology Lab (EELC)/Renewable Resources Lab (RRL)

The EELC and RRL of China Agricultural University focuson various technologies including bioenergy, solarenergy, animal manure treatment and recycling, plantresidues, and village organic wastewater treatmentamong others. Two special laboratories have also beenset up: the Biogas Engineering Lab for technologyinnovation and testing; and the Biomass StoveCombustion Lab which assesses combustion, emissions,efficiency, convenience and overall design. These labsaim to assist farmers and low-income people in China andAfrica.


In 2005 Wana Energy Solutions Uganda Ltd (WeS) was established as an international energy and environmentalconsulting firm dedicated to promoting responsible, sustainable and integrated development of energy and environmentalservices, technologies, policies and practices that safeguard the environment and improve the quality of life.

WeS has established itself as a one stop shop company which installs and distributesliquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to organized and private homes, hotels, hostels, prisons,and institutions of higher learning within and around Kampala area.

It is estimated that more than 90% of the population in Uganda use fuelwood as asource of energy for cooking. The company strives to replace firewood and charcoal as asource of energy for domestic and business use in Uganda with Liquefied Petroleum Gas(LPG). We envision supplying cleaner energy with a view of meeting the current need ofsupplying a cost effective, efficient, clean and reliable form of power to all Ugandans.


Sold: 1,500 household LPG stoves and supplied 10 institutional LPG stoves

in 2009

Beneficiaries: 7,500 people throughout Ghana


Wana Energy Solutions

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Current initiatives in biogas include: co-fermentation;affordable technology extension; digestates treatment;GHG emission monitoring and reduction; and clean/convenient energy for cooking and lighting in villages andlivestock farms. Current initiatives in biomass stovetechnology include: family-scale gasification; gasificationof organic residues (kitchen waste, plant residues etc.);clean/convenient energy for cooking, heating andlighting; and indoor air quality monitoring andimprovement at the village and family levels.

Other initiatives include algal biomass production (for usein cooking/heating/lighting, and waste water treatment)as small-scale production units, and strategic planning forbiomass based energy development at regional andnational levels.

For more information on these initiatives, and on the labsthemselves, please visit their Partner Profile on the PCIAwebsite: http://www.pciaonline.org/china-agricultural-

university-EELC-RRL.


HAPPENINGS

A big congratulations to the 10 PCIA Partners below.Listed in rank order, each of these organizationsreported manufacturing and/or selling at least 10,000stoves in 2009!

1.Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit(German Technical Cooperation) GTZ

2.Groupe Energies Renouvelables Environnement etSolidarits - GERES Cambodia

3.Relief International/EnterpriseWorks-VITA4.Alternative Energy Promotion Center/Energy Sector

Assistance Programme5.China Association of Rural Energy Industry6. SNV - Netherlands Development Organisation7.Uganda Stove Manufacturers limited8.HELPS International9. En Dev Bolivia

10.StoveTec

The Top 10 over 10,000

Recent Partner Activity

Partners Learned About Monitoring Fuel Use forCarbon Finance during PCIA W ebinar

On June 8, 2010, 51 Partners participated in PCIAsMonitoring Fuel Use Using the Kitchen Performance Testwebinar to learn more about designing and implementinga monitoring study to quantify the fuel savings of theirimproved cook stoves. Researchers and carbon financedevelopers presented case studies from China and Ghanato characterize fuel use patterns and measure fuel use tocompare traditional and improved cooking technologies.

We wish to thank our outstanding panel of speakers:Michael Johnson and Todd Wofchuck of Berkeley AirMonitoring Group, Jimmy Tran from the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, Evan Haigler of Impact Carbon,and Erik Wurster of E+Co. You can listen to the webinarand download their presentation and question andanswers at http://www.pciaonline.org/proceedings/webinar-monitoring-fuel-use-kitchen-performance-test.

The webinar successfully demystified stove performancetesting; equipped participants with sufficient basicknowledge to develop a stove performance testing plan;inspired Partners to implement a performance testingplan; and motivated additional Partners to commit toshare stove performance test results and lessons learnedwith others through PCIA. In a follow-up evaluation ofparticipants, 42% of respondents indicated that as aresult of this webinar they intend to develop a stove

testing plan. Thirty eight percent will incorporate newinformation from the webinar into their existing stovetesting plan and 17% will incorporate new informationinto their household energy and health program.

Participants contributed to the success of the webinar byproviding valuable feedback on ways to utilize KPT data,such as collecting and posting KPT results on the PCIAwebsite. In addition, they generated a list of topics forfuture webinars including additional KPT studies, stovedesign and performance, overcoming stove adoption anduse challenges, improving our understanding of GoldStandards, and examples of KPT results presentedagainst CCT and WBT data. PCIA is working to schedulethese topics in upcoming webinars. If you would like toshare your experience on one of these topics with aworldwide audience, or if you have additional topics topropose, please contact us at [email protected].

Do you have ideas for the 2011 Forum agenda, or knowof Partners doing noteworthy work in support of the PCIAmission? Keep watching the Forum website in the currentweeks. Agenda item and award nomination submissionforms will be available soon!

http://www.pciaonline.org/2011Forum

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The objective of Proyecto Mirador is to create a fuel-efficient stove building project that utilizes carbon finance to providea market based financial solution to address the problems of deforestation, indoor air pollution, global warming and slow

economic development in rural Honduras. If successful in securingThe Gold Standard certification, this project can serve as a model forother stove projects by monetizing certified carbon savings, as well asgreatly accelerate the dissemination of fuel-efficient stoves in ruralCentral America where degraded conditions of forests, indoor airpollution and rural poverty exceed acceptable levels.


Installed: 2,500 household biomass stoves in 2009

Beneficiaries: 11,250 in 2009

2010 goal: Sell 4,000 stoves

Carbon finance: Registered with the Voluntary Gold Standard

Proyecto Mirador

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Kitchen Perform ance Test Training UpdateMichael Johnson, Dana Charron, David Pennise,[email protected] Air Monitoring Group

PCIA and Berkeley Air Monitoring Group have beenworking on a project funded by the USEPA to trainPartners in conducting Kitchen Performance Tests (KPTs),with the aim of producing more field data on improvedstove fuel savings. The project is part of a broader effortto increase stove performance assessment capacity forPartner organizations, with a complimentary project beingundertaken for Controlled Cooking Test and Water BoilingTest training (see Evaluating and Improving thePerformance of Stoves: Conducting the Water Boilingand Controlled Cooking Testson pg. 17 of this bulletin).This training may also serve a step towards carbonfinancing for these projects as fuel savings estimatesfrom the KPT can be used within the Gold Standardmethod.

We are currently planning the trainings and fieldcampaigns for projects in Peru, Nepal, and India,corresponding to the three Partners selected for thistraining opportunity:

- In Peru, GTZ-EnDeV and the Peruvian government(SENSICO) are collaborating in the dissemination of the

Inkawasi improved stove. The program has installed over12,000 Inkawasi stoves, which have shown promisingfuel savings and reductions in indoor air pollution levelsduring controlled cooking tests.

- The Center for Rural Energy in Nepal has been workingon the Improved Stove Component of the AlternativeEnergy Promotion Centre/Energy Sector Assistanceprogramme. The program has disseminated improvedstoves across Nepal at the rate of 50,000 per year.

- In India, we are planning the KPT training with FirstEnergy, who manufactures and distributes the Oorjaimproved stove. The Oorja is an advanced combustion,forced air stove and is specifically designed to burnprocessed fuel pellets made from agricultural residues.Over 400,000 Oorjas have been sold to date in Westernand Southern India.

You can read the announcement and selection criteria athttp://www.pciaonline.org/news/usepa-request-applications-kpt-training. The training and field

campaigns are slated to happen in August throughSeptember 2010. A Berkeley Air Lead Trainer will visiteach program, during which there will be a week oftraining followed by two weeks of data collection inhomes. The week of training will consist of presentations,training exercises, practice conducting questionnaires,and fuel weighing in homes.


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In order to make maximum use of the time available fordata collection, a cross-sectional study design is plannedfor the two week field campaign, in which separatesamples of traditional stove users and improved stoveusers will be monitored. To also obtain before andcomparisons in the same homes, which is the preferablestudy design for statistical purposes, a follow-upmonitoring period is also planned and will be conductedindependently by the Partners. For the follow upmonitoring, fuel consumption will be measured in homesthat used traditional stoves during the cross-sectional

study but then transitioned to an improved stove afterthe initial two-week field campaign.

The resulting data will provide key information onbaseline fuel consumption in Asia and South America, aswell as estimates for potential fuel savings achieved bythese stove programs. Data from the three projects isplanned to be published in peer reviewed journals andwill be presented at the PCIA Forum in Lima, Peru inFebruary 2011.


Of the Partners who reported testing their stoves, themain test theyve used is the Water Boiling Test(WBT), followed closely by the Controlled Cooking Test(CCT) and the Kitchen Performance Test (KPT). Morereporting Partners have measured % thermalefficiency than any other performance indicator,although many are also testing emissions. At the time ofpublication only 27 Partners reported having tested theirstoves. PCIA is working to address this by providingcapacity building workshops and technical assistancerelated to the WBT (pg. 17) and KPT (pg. 15-16), andthrough other events including the upcoming the PCIAForum in Lima, Peru.

Stove Performance Testing by PCIA Partners

Evaluating and Improving the Performance ofStoves: Conducting the Water Boiling andControlled Cooking Tests

Plans are underway to improve the fuel efficiency andreduce pollutant emissions of improved stoves in

Rwanda, Lao and Bangladesh. The U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency is funding Aprovecho Research Centerto assist three Partner organizations to conduct the WaterBoiling Test (WBT) and/or Controlled Cooking Test (CCT)to evaluate and improve the performance of their stoves.

The three Partner organizations competitively selected forthis training and technical assistance, CARE Rwanda, SNVLao and VERC Bangladesh, have well established stoveprograms; are committed evaluating and improving theirstoves performance; and have sufficient organizationalcapacity to implement the testing. In addition, each ofthese organizations will partner with a university or other

organization who has the potential to use the knowledgegained from this consultancy to provide stove testingservices to other stove programs in the region. You canread the announcement and selection criteria atwww.pciaonline.org/news/opportunity-learn-how-conduct-water-boiling-and-controlled-cooking-tests.


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The interactive and collaborative trainings will take placeover the next six months. They will involvepresentations, discussions, hands-on testing, dataanalysis exercises, and qualitative/survey exercises. Bythe end of the technical assistance phase, eachorganization will have the capacity to conduct stoveperformance testing, perform the necessary data

analysis, and make design modifications which improvethe performance, safety and durability of their stove.

The results of these WBT and CCT studies will bepublished in a peer reviewed journal and presented at theupcoming PCIA Forum in Lima, Peru in February 2011.Stay tuned for updates!


The WBT is a laboratory test that evaluates stove performance while completing a standard task (boiling andsimmering water) in a controlled environment to investigate the heat transfer and combustion efficiency of thestove. The WBT is the easiest, quickest, and cheapest test to conduct. It reveals the technical performance of astove, not necessarily what it can achieve in real households.

The CCT is a field test that measures stove performance in comparison to traditional cooking methods when a cookprepares a local meal. The CCT is designed to assess stove performance in a controlled setting using local fuels,pots, and practice. It reveals what is possible in households under ideal conditions but not necessarily what is

actually achieved by households during daily use.

The KPT is a field test that assesses qualitative aspects of stove performance through household surveys andcompares the quantitative impacts of improved stoves by measuring daily cooking fuel consumption in the kitchensof real households. This is the only stove performance test that measures actual fuel use in homes.

You can learn more about these stove performance tests and download the test protocols at www.pciaonline.org/testing.

Stove Performance Tests

EPAs Second Round of Cook Stove TestingJim Jetter;[email protected]. Environmental Protection Agency

Researchers at U.S. EPAs laboratories in Durham, North

Carolina are conducting a second round of cook stovetesting in support of PCIA. Results from the first round oftesting were published in the scientific journal, Biomassand Bioenergy, Vol. 33, 294-305, 2009, and results areavailable at PCIAs web site at: www.pciaonline.org/research

The second round of testing includes new, innovativestoves that are now being disseminated in the field.Stoves are being tested for performance, fuel efficiency,and air pollutant emissions using the latest revision of theWBT (Water Boiling Test) protocol. Testing includesevaluation of pollutants that affect global climate change,as well as human health. Pollutants being measured

include carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane,hydrocarbons, particulate matter, black carbon, elementalcarbon, and organic carbon. Light absorption andscattering of particle emissions are being measured inreal time with a specialized instrument (one of eleven inthe world) called the PASS-3 (Photoacoustic SootSpectrometer, 3-wavelength). Stoves are being testedwith fuels with two different moisture levels.

Mutagenicity potential of particulate emissions is beingevaluated in collaboration with EPAs National Health andEnvironmental Effects Research Laboratory.Results from the second round of testing are expected toprovide important information on potential climate

change impacts and sustainability, as well as healthaspects of cook stoves. Laboratory testing is not asubstitute for field testing, but the lab tests willcomplement field studies being conducted by PCIA andPartners. Results from the testing will be published injournal articles and will be posted on the PCIA web siteas soon as they are available.

Stove testing crew: Jim Jetter, EPA; Jerry Fairclothand Dr. Yongxin Zhao, both Arcadis, a contractor toEPA. Emissions testing equipment in background.

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A New Global Alliance for Clean CookstovesLeslie Cordes; [email protected] Nations Foundation

In late March, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves(Alliance) convened leading technical and developmentexperts, stove manufacturers, and donors to explore thedesign of global, sustainable, and market-based solutionto the problems posed by the use of inefficient andpolluting cookstoves. The Alliance is a new global effortled by the United Nations Foundation, the ShellFoundation, and agencies within the German and USgovernments to scale-up efforts to deploy cleancookstoves in the developing world. Since the Marchmeeting, the UN Foundation has been workingaggressively to get the Alliance off the ground and areplanning a formal launch in New York this September.

A global alliance committed to a common vision is criticalin addressing the barriers to the development of cleancooking solutions. With the recent growth and success of

innovative business and carbon finance models, advancesin stove design, compelling new research on the harmfulimpacts on health, and the mounting need for effectivenear-term climate solutions, the time is right to coalescearound a common strategy to meet the core needs of thefield and support solutions that can help place millions ofclean stoves in households around the world.

The Alliance is seeking to spur the deployment of 100million clean cookstoves by 2020. Together with private,non-profit, UN, and public sector partners, the Alliance

will work to increase awareness of the issue in donor anddeveloping countries, support health and climateresearch, advance the development of innovative financemechanisms, catalyze development of supply anddistribution chains, help reduce tariffs and other tradebarriers, and work to develop international standards andfield testing protocols.

To learn more about the Alliance, please contact LeslieCordes, UNFs Director of Partnerships for Energy andClimate, by email or at (202) 862-6307.

EnDev works to enable access to modern energy for as many Bolivians as possible. EnDev works in 4 lines of work:

1) Energy for illumination, grid densification, mobile solar appliances/lamps2) Energy for cooking - biomass stoves for households and institutions, connection and installation of natural gas

appliances for schools3) Energy for social infrastructure (schools, health centers) - photovoltaic systems, solar

water heating, connection and installation of natural gas appliances for schools4) Energy for productive uses including crop transformation, micro irrigation, biogas.

In 2010 EnDev is working to refine stove designs to improve performance, strengthen anewly organized testing center in LaPaz, building the capacity of local businesses to

manufacture the Malena stove, and working with the Ministry of Housing to improvenational stove dissemination campaigns.


Installed: 10,000 household and 916 institutional biomass stoves in 2009

Beneficiaries: 96,000 people in Bolivian households and institutions

2010 goal: Install 30,000 stoves in 2010

Efficiency: Targeting better than 40% efficiency and 85% emission reductions

EnDev Bolivia

By the Numbers

Registration has begun for the 5th Biennial PCIA Forum,which will take place in Lima, Peru from February 21-February 26, 2011. Register here:http://www.pciaonline.org/2011Forum/register/ to join

more than 300 household energy and health leaders insharing experiences and developments in the fields oftechnologies, fuels, monitoring and evaluation,commercialization, carbon financing, awareness raising,research and more. For the 2011 event, we have alsoopened up a Spanish-language registration form:http://www.pciaonline.org/2011Forum/register/es.

If you have any questions, or trouble with the registrationform, please email [email protected].

2011 PCIA ForumRegistration Now Open!

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ETHOS/ Aprovecho Research CenterStove Camp 2010Dean Still; [email protected] Research Center

Fifty two high energy participants attended Stove Camp

this year at Colgans Island, camping near the river,making and testing stoves, listening to Freds Big Bandharmonize so beautifully. Fred and his volunteers cookedbreakfast every morning and dinners at night time partieson Rocket and TLUD institutional stoves. Two $250 prizeswere awarded:

Best Corn Stalk Burning Stove for Malawi (sponsoredby StrawJet www.strawjet.com )

Best Charcoal Stove for Haiti

Stove Camp provides a venue for a gathered scientificcommunity to advance knowledge. Participants madenew stoves and tested them daily for fuel use andemissions. Every morning the data was shared and newbetter informed stoves were constructed.

This year a great deal of progress was made on charcoalstoves using Haitian type pots and Haitian type charcoal.A longer term water boiling test was designed to mimichow food is made in Haiti. Many participants had workedin Haiti which added a lot, of course. Charcoal stoveswere made (or found) that used about 50% of the fuel

and made something like 35% less Carbon monoxidecompared to traditional Haitian stoves. Nick Salmonsfrom International Lifeline Fund made a very successfulHaitian charcoal stove that was voted Best in Class byhis peers.

Both Rocket and TLUD stoves were made that could burnbundled sticks of corn stalks made by Straw Jet inMalawi. The sticks are 2 in diameter and could addanother renewable fuel source for farming villages! Thezero cost tall combustion chamber Rocket stove built byJon Anderson won this prize.

A report on Stove Camp will be available soon atwww.aprovecho.org Aprovecho staff will be continuing toevolve best performing charcoal stoves for a couple ofmonths and, as always, we invite serious folks to join usin the iterative design process in lab and field.

October 4, 2010 - 1st deadline for airfare financial support applications

October 29, 2010 - Decisions announced for 1st round of airfare financial support applications

November 15, 2010 - FINAL deadline for airfare financial support applications

December 10, 2010 - Decisions announced for 2nd round of airfare financial support applications

January 17, 2011 - Registration closes: January 17, 2011

Mark Your Calendar: Important PCIA Forum Deadlines!

This newsletter is published by Winrock International onbehalf of the Partnership for Clean Indoor Air. To sharecomments, suggestions, news, and article contributionsplease email [email protected]. The deadline forcontributions to next quarters Bulletin #25, the topic ofwhich is The 2011 Forum, is September 1, 2011.

DISCLAIMER: Unless otherwise stated, informationcontained in this Bulletin is not necessarily theopinion of and/or endorsed by all Partners.

Your Comm ents are Welcome!

Stove Camp 2010 Participants

Register Now!The 2011 PCIA Forum w ill be held in

Lima, Peru

February 21-26, 2011

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The household energy and health community lost agreat friend and colleague recently, with the death of

Aid Africa Founder and Director Ken Goyer in June,after a 2-year battle with cancer. During that time, helobbied his doctors to let him return to the Gulu area ofUganda as frequently as possible to continue hisimportant work of providing education, medical careand mud-brick rocket stoves to displaced families inIDP camps. Memorial services were held in June inboth Gulu and California, and a celebration of Ken's lifewas held in Eugene, OR in July. For more information,or to send your condolences, thoughts, or me

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