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TaTEDO SESO in collaboration with her partners (The Government of Tanzania, the Tanzania Natural Resources Forum, and the European Union) assigned a team of three experts to review and analyze related policies and legal frameworks hindering sustainable charcoal value chain promotion in Tanzania from Mid-June to the end of August 2024. T

The United Republic of Tanzania, which comprises of Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, brings forth her Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) guided by both national and international contexts. These INDCs were prepared in consistence with decision 1/CP.20, and will be implemented by 2030.

The completion of this important PURE Investment Prospectus is a contribution of joint efforts from a range of individuals and organizations. We wish to express our deepest gratitude to the Mott Foundation for its contribution of project financial resources and the World Resources Institute (WRI) for providing the platform and support for this project. We are particularly indebted to our technical advisors, Eng Estomih Sawe (TaTEDO SESO CEO), Mr. David Njugi (Productive Use Specialist-WRI), and Mr. Anderson Ngowa (Finance Associate-WRI), for their valuable guidance, constructive feedback, and unwavering encouragement throughout the implementation of this project. Their expertise was instrumental in shaping the direction and quality of this work.

Climate change is serious global challenge threatening humanity and achievement of the local, national and global development plans including the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals. Modern energy services are a powerful engine of economic and social development. It is a foundation stone of the modern industrial economy and provides an essential ingredient for almost all human activities: it provides services for cooking and space/water heating, lighting, health, food production and storage, education, mineral extraction, industrial production and transportation.

TANESCO (Tanzania Electric Supply Company) is the government-owned power utility in Tanzania, and is responsible for generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. This briefing note explains the opportunity TANESCO has to take an integrated electricity access and modern energy cooking approach. TANESCO can increase its revenue and the demand for surplus electricity in the future by promoting and accelerating customers’ transition to electric cooking (eCooking) on energy efficient appliances. At the same time this would affect the health and wellbeing of their customers, mitigate carbon emissions, and protect the local environment from deforestation. TANESCO’s planning processes can encourage grid-connected customers to efficiently use electricity for cooking at affordable costs. This is a win-win scenario where the financial sustainability of the utility, and the wellbeing of customers and the environment can all be positively affected through a strategic approach to integrate electricity access and modern energy cooking, as is being pursued in neighbouring Uganda and Kenya. We recommend a pilot of energy efficient cooking appliances to pursue this objective and can offer support in this endeavour.

Tanzania is a nation of approximately 60 million people with most households using biomass as the primary source of cooking energy. Firewood is the most common fuel in rural households and charcoal is the most common fuel in urban and peri-urban households.

This paper defines eCooking Delivery Models (eCDMs) as the activities, resources and actors needed to deliver modern electric cooking (eCooking) appliances to end-users in need of innovative clean cooking solutions in the Global South. We define the eCooking Market System (socio-economic and cultural context, the enabling environment, market chains, support services) which conceptualizes the real-world market factors and surrounding context related to enabling the uptake and sustained use of eCooking appliances by end-users. We also describe an approach to design eCDMs and identify the support services required to start and sustain the market delivery infrastructure. The eCDM concept and approach are demonstrated through designing eCDMs and support services for electric pressure cookers (EPCs) for two end-user segments in Tanzania:

More than half of the 1 billion people in the world without electricity live in Sub-Saharan Africa, and rapid population growth is projected to outpace electric grid expansion. For communities across the region, a consistent and affordable supply of electricity can open new possibilities for socioeconomic progress. Mini-grids—electrical generation and distribution systems of less than 10 megawatts—can play a role. These decentralized technologies are expected to bring power to 140 million Africans by 2040.