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Pete Schwartz, at Cal Poly, USA, demonstrates combining PV with phase change mediums for energy storage, allowing for cooking after dark

Fogão Solar represents solar cooking at a seminar on sustainable urban management in Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Washington Post solar cooks on its roof

Madagascar NGO ADES reports that 4.6% of households there use ADES stoves

SCI Awards the Order of Excellence to the Republic of the Marshall Islands

Bancha, the first solar-kitchen-only village in India

Mali NGO Togo Tilé reports stellar solar cooker sales for 2018

Events

International conferences

• NEW: 5-7 November, 2019 (Nairobi, Kenya): Clean Cooking Forum 2019 - The Clean Cooking Alliance and the Kenya Ministry of Energy will co-host the Clean Cooking Forum 2019, to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 5-7. With the theme of “Investment. Innovation. Impact,” the sector’s flagship event will bring together hundreds of attendees from around the world working to build an inclusive industry that makes clean cooking accessible to the three billion people who live each day without it. More information...

• 22-24 January 2020 (Faro, Portugal): CONSOLFOOD2020 - To be held at the Institute of Engineering, Universidade do Algarve, Campus da Penha. The conference will focus on solar thermal food processing. The deadline for receipt of abstracts was 15 June 2019. More information... 

Canada

• NEW: July - August 2019 (Powell River, B.C.): Solar cooking demonstration - The PREP Society’s Community Resource Centre, located at 4752 Joyce Ave., will have a solar cooking display taking place at the centre from 12p.m. to 3p.m., four days per week. More information...

Morocco

• September 2019 (Benguerir Green City):  Solar Decathlon AFRICA - More information...

United States

New York

• 26 September 2019 (Nyack): SCI Science Director Alan Bigelow PhD to speak - The event will be held at the Nyack Library from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. More information...

See also

• Past events
• Conferences
• Organizing solar cooking events

New content

• Document: Handbook on how to build and use the Copenhagen Solar Cooker
• Design update: Ben 2 and Ben 3 Firewood Stoves variation where the tripod can be constructed without welding - Dieter Seifert
• Design: Newton Solar Oven 2.0
• GoSun news: GoSun Releases DIY Kit to Get People to “Tinker” with its Solar Oven - thespoon
• EVENT: 18 August 2019 (Sorède, France): Third Solar Cooking Day - More information...
• Economic article: Economic benefits of solar cooking
• Document: Climate Protection and Overcoming Poverty Traps - Proposals for the realization of the UN Development Goals (Engish, German) - Dieter Seifert
• PV/heat storage cooking: Research group at Cal Poly, USA uses photovoltaic and phase-change material for heat storage to allow for cooking after dark
• Brazil news: Elmo Dutra represents solar cooking at a seminar on sustainable urban management
• Uganda individual: Esther Nattabi

• Report: Solar Cookers International White Paper - Edward Ortiz
• India resource: Manufacturers of Box Type & Dish Type Solar Cooker - Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (May 2013)
• Uganda news: Green Day celebration in Kampala included solar and fireless cooker demonstrations
• Report: Powering Jobs Census 2019: The Energy Access Workforce - Power for All
• Video: Barbecue solaire : la “bonne cuisine” écolo - France 3 Rhône-Alpes
• Video: Episode 1 of Sunchef Sara, a show about off-grid cooking in northern Denmark
• Cooker comparison test results: Roger Haines conducted cooking tests with the Haines 1 and 2 solar cookers compared to the CooKit and the HotPot
• EVENT: July - August 2019 (Powell River, B.C., Canada): The PREP Society’s Community Resource Centre will have a solar cooking display at the centre four afternoons per week
• EVENT: 16 July 2019 (Online, 7 p.m. CDT): Sun Ovens 101 Workshop - Still time to register for the free online workshop set to take place at 7 p.m. CDT. All the basics of solar box cooking with live Q&A.
• Patent: Solar concentrator assembly and methods of using same - Scot Frank
• Evacuated tube cooking: Solar Cooking with Go Sun Sport-Spaghetti At The Winter Solstice
• Video: 40-year-old vintage solar cooker full unboxing
• Nepal news: Nepal Government Endorsed National Environment Policy - Nepal24Hours.com
• Solar dryer manual: The Solar Tunnel Dryer Type Kisumu - Bernhard Müller
• Wall oven design: Solar Z
• USA SCI Associate: Tom Hoffmann
• India news: Union Budget 2019: A Mixed Bag for the Solar Industry - Saur Energy International
• Madagascar NGO news: ADES Annual Report for 2018