The initiative will introduce electric cooking solutions to households that are connected to the grid but still rely on biomass for their daily cooking requirements. This includes the distribution of electric pressure cookers (EPCs) designed by PowerUp, a Uganda-based startup, along with electric induction stoves. Specifically, the mitigation activity aims to equip 200,000 households prepared for the energy shift from charcoal to electricity with these e-cookers.

This move enables a significant transition from biomass-dependent cooking to the cleanest option available: electricity. These stoves offer numerous advantages, including enhanced safety, elimination of exposure to harmful biomass smoke related to cooking, considerable reduction in meal preparation time, and substantial financial savings for families. Moreover, they present an opportunity for immediate decarbonization in low-income countries with high biomass reliance.

Integrated Sensors: All e-cookers feature built-in sensors that continuously measure real-time consumption data.

Reliable Data Storage: Capable of storing 13 months of consumption data, allowing for accurate comparisons with baseline stoves and fuels (data collected twice a year).

Behavioural Insights: E-cookers additionally monitor cooking modes, dishes, and durations to capture data for improved SDG reporting (e.g. time savings) and aid futures technology development.

• UpEnergy Group and its local subsidiary, UpEnergy Ghana Ltd, work closely with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Ghana, the Ministry of Energy, and the Energy Commission to bring a meaningful, locally relevant project to 200,000 households (approximately 0.8 million Ghanaians).

• UpEnergy Group has worked closely with the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN to ensure the utmost rigorous, conservative and transparent design and carbon accounting protocol for this mitigation activity.

• The INDC and NDC published by Ghana in 2015 and 2021 respectively, mention "Expand the adoption of market-based cleaner cooking solutions" as a part of INDC policy actions which supports the national policy measures "Sustainable Energy Action Plan", "National Natural Gas Master Plan", and "National LPG Programme".

• This project activity can help reduce direct stress on natural resources, reduce direct emission of toxic pollutants and in return improve Social Inclusion, Sustainable Energy Transition and develop Smart Communities with improved living conditions. All of which are mentioned in Ghana’s NDC.

• While a very small scale of electric cooking devices currently exists in Ghana, these programs suffer from one or more of the key barriers mentioned above (lack of affordability, lack of quality, lack of wide accessibility). For example, while nearly 90% of Ghana’s population has access to electricity, only about 1% of Ghanaians use electricity as their primary source of energy for cooking.

• Without carbon revenues, affordability issues will continue to persist as the key barrier to increased adoption rates of electrical cooking.

• As such, the carbon revenues from the sale of mitigation outcomes are critical to help unlock access and drive mass-scale awareness and adoption of cleaner cooking technologies.

• Early and continuous engagement with different governmental departments and local NGOs in the clean cooking space in Ghana, have enabled UpEnergy to design mitigation activities that are in line with NDC requirements but lack funding or technical accessibility.

• 200,000 households in peri-urban and rural areas in Greater Accra, Eastern, Central and Ashanti regions will benefit from this activity. There are households from the middle-income class that would otherwise not be able to access or afford these technologies.

• The carbon revenue from KliK Foundation’s contribution will enable these technologies to be subsidised more than 50% and, in this way, reach those households that would not otherwise be able to afford them.