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● projectScaled · national · 2014
BURN Manufacturing Jikokoa clean cookstoves
BURN Manufacturing designs and locally manufactures efficient cookstoves (flagship: the charcoal-burning Jikokoa) in a solar-powered factory near Nairobi, which opened its vertically integrated plant in 2014, the first modern one of its kind in the region.
illustrative atlas image · Abdelrahman Ahmed / Pexels01 The context
The Jikokoa uses far less charcoal than the traditional ceramic jiko. Distribution combines retail, credit sales and prices subsidized with carbon finance. An independent RCT with 1,000 households in Nairobi (Berkouwer & Dean, AER 2022) validated the efficiency and welfare gains.
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EvidenceBURN Manufacturing (Ashden Award winner profile)Ashden · 2019
EvidenceCredit, Attention, and Externalities in the Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies by Low-Income HouseholdsAmerican Economic Review, Vol. 112(10) · 2022