ABSTRACT
Clean and efficient cooking energy solutions have been identified as a high impact opportunity by SEforALL as well as Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 to meet objectives related to energy efficiency and energy access. The chapter analyses the impact of improved cookstove use on energy and related emissions under various scenarios. The SEforALL scenario was taken from the African Hub of the SEforALL objective, which aims to eliminate solid fuels for cooking by 2030. The business as usual (BAU) scenario based on 2000–2017 trends is no more than close to 30 per cent of the clean energy (no solid fuels). The scenarios also included doubling the current adoption rate of improved charcoal stoves in urban areas and improved wood stoves in rural areas, doubling the fuel substitution rates – firewood to LPG in urban areas and firewood to improved charcoal stove in rural areas, and 50 per cent increase in both adoption and fuel substitution rate. There is some improvement, but targets are still far off being met. An analysis of the SEforALL scenario indicates that efforts required are huge compared to BAU – it requires high fuel substitution rates, where the firewood-charcoal and charcoal-LPG fuel substitution rates in urban areas will need to be increased by factors of 6 and 16 respectively, compared to the baseline scenario. In rural areas, the firewood-charcoal and charcoal-LPG fuel substitution rates will need to be increased by factors of 37 and 32 respectively. Several barriers will need to be addressed before large-scale dissemination of improved cookstoves and LPG, including financing of the initial investments and establishing supply infrastructure for LPG.
