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Rosa Solar Stoves was founded by Clement Musonda, working in Lusaka, Zambia. The original Rosa Solar Stove was designed in 2010, with a few innovations of the typical solar box cooker. In 2014 they made modifications to a parabolic type cooker, and they have continued to use both styles.
They are a social and environmental company providing the following activities : Training on solar cooking and food drying process; manufacturing and distribution of them; solar PV designing and installation; solar water heating installation; financing modeling of solar systems.
In 2011 and 2012, Rosa presented their solar box cooker for natural medicine usage at the Kafakumba Training Center, Ndola, Zambia. In 2017, Rosa developed their own version of a called the Heliac. It is is very efficient and can cook all of the local foods. Rosa Solar Stoves has received registration documents by the Patents and Companies Registration Agency of Zambia, PACRA.
In Zambia, many people use charcoal for cooking in urban areas, and in rural areas they use firewood. Rosa Solar Stoves' work with solar cookers and green activities, are a step towards reducing deforestation and climate changes issues in Zambia and other places in Africa. This solar technology helped responders save a number of lives from a cholera outbreak, which occurred from December 2017 through March 2018, in Kanyama area of Lusaka.
Clement Musonda attends to a solar box cooker
The Fresnel lens style solar stove made by Rosa Solar Stoves
Clement Musonda has created a hybrid gas/solar stove
Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves Rosa Solar Stoves also offers training in solar food drying, solar water heating, and advice in financing solar systems.
- Rosa Solar Stoves wishes to thank all who have supported their efforts financially, but acknowledge there is still much work to do, and seek partners and investors to help with future projects
News[]
Rosa Solar Stoves updraft solar food dryer, Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves
- October 2023: Solar food drying - Clement Musonda reports Rosa Solar Stoves has begun experimenting with their new version of an updraft solar food dryer. With this design, the hot air flows upward through an extended lower level solar heat collection trough, and enters the bottom of a cabinet underneath the food. Sliced food is added on screen trays from the rear of the cabinet. The dry air rises through the trays and around the food, exiting through a vent at the top. It appears their design also includes a solar PV panel to power a fan to move more air through the drying chamber.
- July 2023: Clement Musonda has provided some updates on how they use their version of the Heliac cooker. They find they use the solar cooker during the day, and then slip an ethanol fueled cook plate over the solar portal and use it in the evening.
The Rosa Solar Stove uses solar cooking during the day, and an ethanol fueled cook plate in the evening
- Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves
- December 2022: Clement Musonda reports Rosa Solar Stoves received a certificate from Global Waste management.
- October 2022: Clement conducts a cooking demonstration for friends from the USA, who have farming and education projects in the Mazabuka area.
A cooking demonstration for friends from the USA in the Mazabuka area
- Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves
- October 2022: Demonstration at the Zambia Governance Foundation NGO. They invited us to demonstrate a clean alternative to charcoal for a project they would like to implement in the Lwangwa and Runfunsa areas.
Demonstration at the Zambia Governance Foundation NGO
- Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves
- October 2022: Clement has reported the organization has begun to offer training in solar PV design and installation.
Lusaka, Zambia, Photo credit: Rosa Solar Stoves
- October 2022: Rosa Solar Stoves conducted a solar cooking demonstration in the Misisi community within Lusaka, Zambia.
Audio and video[]
- December 2022
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Zoe Williams interviewed Clement Musonda about his development of Rosa Solar Stoves in 2018
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The benefits seen with using solar stoves are many, but some are listed below:[]
- Reduce air pollution and promote health
- Reduce deforestation
- Reduce climate changes
- Improve nutrition and tackle cholera
- Create jobs
- Reduce poverty
- Develop communities
Presentation & workshop demonstrations[]
- 2011-2012: Rosa Solar Stoves presented solar box cookers at the Kafakumba Training Center for use in natural medicine which included: solar box cookers for cooking and water pasteurization helping to reduce dehydration.
- 2016: Rosa Solar Stove ran a seminar and training workshop at the youth groups of the Church of Christ in Harare, Zimbabwe.
- 2017: Rosa Solar Stoves shared their Heliac solar stove in public, in Kanyama, boiling water to avoid contracting cholera in Lusaka, Zambia.
- 7 July 2018: Rosa Solar Stove made a presentation and demonstrated solar cooking at the Government Complex.
- 26 July 2018: Rosa Solar Stoves presented a proposal at Bongo Hive, for the Southern Africa Innovation Support Project, SAIS.
Documents[]
- July 2023: Zambia business registration certificate 2023
- July 2023: Rosa Solar Stoves company profile 2023
External links[]
See also[]
Contact[]
- See Clement Musonda.Clement Musonda