Approach to Designing Delivery Models of Energy Cooking Services in Tanzania (MECS-TRIID)

The project conducted a study for assessing the entire market systems of the cooking energy appliances (Efficient Electric Pressure cookers-EPC) in order to identify, assess and understand actors, barriers, enablers and drivers to and propose effective delivery/business models for scaling up uptake of modern energy cooking appliances in urban grid based and rural mini grid based customers in Tanzania. The time scale of this project is six months (19 Aug 2018 -28 Feb 2020) The project aim was to assess and understand the entire modern cooking energy market systems in order to propose sustainable delivery/business models for scaling up uptake of modern energy cooking appliances and services in Tanzania. The project was implemented in urban and peri-urban areas of Dar es Salaam Region (Ubungo and Kinondoni Districts) and rural areas of Gairo district in Morogoro Region where PowerGen Company is currently operating a Mini-Grid electric power plant. Tanzanian eCook Book At the end, the project came up with a research report narrating the marketing of modern energy cooking appliances and an approach for designing Delivery Models of Energy Cooking Services. Other deliverables were Tanzania eCook Books (English and Swahili Versions).