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66 IRENA (2023), Renewables-based electric cooking: Climate commitments and finance, https://www.irena. org/Publications/2023/Dec/Renewables-based-electric-cooking-Climate-commitments-and-finance 67 International Energy Agency (2023) A Vision for Clean Cooking Access for All, World Energy Outlook Special Report, https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/212dda1e-63ec-4f42-a530-f2ef3da74fdf/ AVisionforCleanCookingAccessforAll.pdf 68 Cooksafe Coalition (nd), The future of cooking is electric, https://cooksafecoalition.org/wp-content/ uploads/2022/11/23098-GCR-Cooksafe-Report-D10.pdf 69 MECS (2023) Comparing energy consumption and costs – from cooking across the MECS programme, https://mecs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Comparing-energy-consumption-and-costs-from- cooking-across-the-MECS-programme.pdf 70 International Energy Agency (2023) A Vision for Clean Cooking Access for All, World Energy Outlook Special Report, https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/212dda1e-63ec-4f42-a530-f2ef3da74fdf/ AVisionforCleanCookingAccessforAll.pdf ELECTRIC COOKING Most specialists agree that electric cooking (‘e-cooking’) from renewable energy sources remains the ideal solution over the longer term. Universal adoption of e-cooking by 2030 would reduce carbon emissions from cooking by up to 40 per- cent over 2018 levels. However, this would require major investments in enhancing electricity access and grid reliability, including by bolstering generation capacity, improving transmission and distribution systems and reducing losses. 66 In large part, enhancing electricity access is the goal of SDG 7, with the benefits to advanc- ing e-cooking coming from a spillover effect from universal electrification. How- ever, the funding required to achieve SDG 7 (see Table 2) highlights the challenge of achieving this double goal of increased cleaner cooking and renewable energy. Over the last decade, e-cooking provided solutions to 12.5 percent of those who gained access to clean cooking through the uptake of hotplates, induction plates and other e-cooking appliances. 67 Historically, electricity was not seen as a practical clean cooking solution in low- income settings, due mainly to the widespread lack of reliable electricity access and high cost. However, with advances in electrification, increased access to renew- able energy through mini-grids and off-grid solutions and the falling cost of electric appliances e-cooking is now seen as an important part of the clean cooking mix. 68 E-cooking appliances include hot plates, modern cooktops (induction and infra- red), electric pressure cookers, rice cookers and others. A MECS study on the en- ergy efficiency of such appliances found that, when compared with traditional resistive element hotplates, modern cooktops (induction and infrared) can save 10 percent, automated devices such as rice cookers can save approximately 25 per- cent and electric pressure cookers can save approximately 50 percent energy. 69 Many developing country governments and electric utilities favor electric cooking solutions in order to reduce dependence on imported LPG. There is growing inter- est internationally in incorporating clean cooking components into household elec- trification programs. The additional cost of providing an e-cooking device when connecting consumers to the grid is thought to be about 10 percent. 70 In some
Reduction of carbon emissions through universal adoption of e-cooking by 2030 over 2018 levels: 40 %
3. CLEAN COOKING SOLUTIONS
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