Solar cooking news archive

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Manufacturers can now schedule a Performance Evaluation Process (PEP) test of their solar cookers

Solar Cookers International releases SCI Toolkit

CONSOLFOOD2020 international conference to be held January 2020 in Faro, Portugal

Bahamas Hurricane Dorian relief project seeks to deliver 1,000 Global Sun Ovens

SCI's Alan Bigelow’s Solar-Cooking Revolution

IndianOil commences pilot test study of indoor solar cooking system in Leh, Ladakh, India

Alzubair Saiyed has conducted workshops in more than 100 Indian villages since 2016

The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust hosts young Namibians from eight regions of the country to embrace environmental sustainability

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

Sun Buckets documentary chronicles the development of a solar cooking heat storage system

Heliac Solar earns the Judges' Choice Award in MIT Climate CoLab contest

Chef Pierre-André Aubert's solar restaurant, Le Présage, featured in video of the Gout de France festival

India team preparing for mass production of solar wall oven

GoSun Fusion debuts with solar powered battery back-up for nighttime cooking

AfriShiners 3rd International Workshop to be held in Eldoret, Kenya in March 2019. (Unfortunately, registration is full for this event)

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• Zambia Facebook group: Solar Cooking in Zambia!
• Honduras Facebook group: Clima Renovable Honduras
• India news: Solar Cooking Journey - Alzubair Saiyed
• Photovoltaic solar cooking video: Students of IIT Bombay have invented solar stove.
• Heat storage video: UNesar on DD Girnar
• Kenya news: Kenyan Ministry of Energy launches first national Gender Policy in the energy sector ever - Energia
• Funding resource: Financing Decentralized Renewable Energy for the Last Mile - Energypedia
• Video: Building a Dierx solar box cooker - Solar Cooker Workgroup Sliedrecht NL
• (EVENT) 1 December 2019 (Bengalaru, India): Building a portable Solar Cooker Workshop - Live cooking with the Sun
• Design: SUNWINGS evacuated-tube solar cooker - Simplified Technologies for Life
• Photovoltaic solar cooking report: Solar Powered Induction Cooking System - Sibiya & Venugopal
• (EVENT) 25-26 November 2019 (Berlin): Energy Transition in the Arab World
• USA news: Solar Cookers International to exhibit and advocate at COP25 conference in Madrid, Spain
• DRC NGO: PNUD en République démocratique du Congo
• India news: Gujarat Man Helps Tribal Women Make Solar Cookers That Cost Just Rs 100! - The Better India
• Design award: The PRINCE-40 community solar cooker wins Indian national award
• Kenya news: Long way to Kenya’s dream of clean energy - The East African
• Solar drying video: Solar Conduction and Convection Dryer - Rudra Solar Energy
• Event news: CONSOLFOOD2020 Preliminary programme
• Switzerland news: EPFL creates a solar cooker with solid potential in Switzerland
• Germany Facebook group: Kochen mit Sonnenlicht
• India Facebook group: Solar Cooker India
• Design: Jo Muller of Australia has built an evacuated-tube solar cooker built into plastic toolbox.
• Vendor: The CooKit solar panel cooker can be purchased from Solar Cookers International inside the United States
• Design: Jumbo version of the Fun-Panel solar cooker - Elmo Dutra
• Data: Over three million solar cookers and counting...
• Report: Using pressure cookers with a solar cooker and heat-retention - Elmo Dutra
• WhatsApp group: Fogão Solar Brasil
• (EVENT) Brazil event: 12-14 May 2020 (Tubarão, Santa Catarina): ENSUS 2020
• Solar pioneer: Celebrating the Sun Queen (Mária Theresa Telkes) - SWE Magazine
• Wiki article: Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

• Photovoltaic cooking news: Electric cooking starts to simmer in rural India - Energyworld.com
• Mexico news: Solar Cookers Produce More Than Food for Mexican Women - Inter Press Service
• Manufacturer news: Solavore is no longer in the business of marketing solar cookers
• Algeria video: Le festival de la cuisson solaire d'Adrar 2016
• USA news: PVDG’s Wholly Owned Subsidiary, Sun Ovens International, Inc. Expanding Into International Markets
• USA news: Engineering students crank up the heat at 'Solar Oven Throw Down' - KUGN 9 News
• (EVENT) 23 October 2019 (Ada, Oklahoma, USA) - Ag Fest to demonstrate solar cooking on the East Central University campus
• Manufacturer news: GoSun Goes to Crowdfunding to Kickstart its Series A - The Spoon
• Peru Facebook group: Eco Solperu
• Classroom news: School of Engineering and Sciences developing solar cooking technology into their curriculum - Solar Cookers International
• Madagascar news: Back to the Green Island with Efficient and Solar Stoves - Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire
• Water pasteurization report: Water Disinfection Experiment Design Report - Nzoia Water and Services Co Lt
• Ghana news: Students bring solar powered projects to Ghana - Mustang News
• Video: Cooking by burying pots underground in a desert environment
• India news: Modi government to offer Ayushman, Ujjwala benefits for PMAY users in three month trial program - Financial Express
• India news: Here comes the sun - Pune Mirror
• India news: SECI tenders 500 quantities of solar cooking systems - PV Magazine India
• Upcoming international conference: CONSOLFOOD 2020
• Slides: Oportunidades y recomendaciones para tecnologías apropiadas en países en desarrollo - Dieter Seifert
• India news: Keeping the Mahatma’s light shining - Mongabay

• Wall oven news: Sunrice: The Solar Rice Cooker
• USA manufacturer news: The Solar Oven Society online store has been closed. There is no indication at this time about when or if it will reopen.
• Solar cooker design: SunGenius has recently begun production of their hybrid Patio Solar Oven
• Fuelwood cooking problem: Clean Cooking: The Forgotten Link in Universal Energy Access - International Policy Digest
• Bahamas hurricane relief: Hurricane Dorian relief project organized by b4dignity, with the goal of delivering 1,000 Sun Ovens
• France video: Libertad 400 by SUNplicity
• South Africa news: Industrial design students at the Univ. of Johannesburg have solar cooker design competition
• USA article in the media: Alan Bigelow’s Solar-Cooking Revolution - The New Yorker
• Water pasteurization news: Research results from the NGO Sun24 on the use of the Boil 3 Add 1 Method to reap the energy savings of water pasteurization instead of boiling, without the need for a thermometer
• USA NGO: Sun24
• USA Facebook group: Promote Solar Cooking in your Community
• The Bahamas news: B4Dignity to send 1000 Global Sun Ovens to The Bahamas
• Country article: The Bahamas
• Fresnel cooker design calculator: Easy Flat-Pack Fresnel Reflector
• Algeria Facebook group: الطبخ الشمسي في أدرار- الجزائر Cuisson solaire à Adrar -Algérie
• Article in the media: OSAT: Open Source Technik für Afrika ß Frei Zugänglich und Angepasst - Dieter Seifert
• (EVENT) 4-5 April 2020 (New Haven, Connecticut, USA): Global Health & Innovation Conference
• (EVENT) 27-29 September 2019 (Valencia, Spain): BioCultura en Valencia
• USA manufacturer news: Sun Ovens International acquired by Poverty Dignified, Inc.
• Document: Günther Kunkel's recommendations for slowing desertification
• India news: IndianOil commences pilot test study of indoor solar cooking system in Leh, Ladakh, India
• Clean Cookstove Survey: 2019 Modern Energy Cooking Services Survey, sponsored by the World Bank (reference only, past due date of 9/14/19)
• Slide presentation: Opportunities and Recommendations for Appropriate Technologies in Developing Countries (English, German) - Dieter Seifert
• Heat storage news: IOCL flags off pilot study of solar indoor cooking in Leh - Daily Excelsior
• (EVENT) 28 September 2019, (Mimbres, New Mexico, USA) Harvest Festival Solar Cook-off - More information...
• Cooker design: Copenhagen Solar Cooker Light improved to make cooking a snap
• India news: Gujarat Man Teaches Tribal Women to Make Solar Cookers That Cost Just Rs 100! - The Better India
• India news: #KindnessMatters: Engineer invents Rs 60 solar cooker to help rural women - CNBC TV18
• Mexico news: Mexican Women Use Sunlight Instead of Firewood or Gas to Cook Meals - Inter Press Service
• (EVENT) 27 September, 13, 20, 27 October 2019 noon to 1 p.m. (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) Solar cooking demo: - Luther Krueger of the Minnesota Solar Cookers group, will be demonstrating the basics of solar cooking at the farmers market in the King Field neighborhood, located at 43rd and Nicollet Ave. S., over several days.
• (EVENT) Webinar: 19 September, Thursday at 3:00 p.m. CEST (9:00 a.m. EDT, 13:00 GMT): Sustainable Energy for Essential Humanitarian Services:- the second of the four-part webinar series “Sustainable Energy in Humanitarian Settings”
• Construction plans: Newton Solar Oven 1.0

• Cookbook: The Kenya eCookbook: Beans & Cereals Edition - How to Save Time and Money
• Glazing design: Plastic greenhouse enclosure made from flat sheet of polycarbonate
• France video: Recent SUNplicity solar cooking event
• Italy individual: Matteo Muccioli
• Construction plans: Newton Solar Oven 2.0
• Namibia news: The Namib Desert Environmental Education Trust hosted young Namibians from eight regions of the country to embrace environmental sustainability
• India news: IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi and ARES (FBK) jointly execute ITPAR Project Titled "STAR" - webindia123
• Improved-combustion stove design: Baba Moto Stove
• 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

• India news: Dr. Ajay Chandak to lead a solar cooking expedition to Ladakh
• (EVENT) 29-30 July 2019 (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Safe Access to Fuel and Energy Workshop 2019
• Call for proposals: 30 July 2019: PFAN Call for Proposals Seeks Projects & Businesses with Climate Adaptation Benefits for Development & Investment Support
• Photovoltaic cooking resource: Beyond Fire: How to achieve electric cooking - Hivos & World Future Council
• Event planning resource: Solar Brunch Guide
• Testing news: SCI opens solar cooking testing center in Nairobi, Kenya
• Refugee camp news: SCI brings solar cooking to more than 300 people in the Kakuma Refugee Camp
• Country: Marshall Islands
• (EVENT) 28 August 2019 (Riverdale, the Bronx, USA): SCI Impact Celebration - Solar Cookers International invites donors to an exclusive event from 5:00p.m.- 7:00 p.m.
• (EVENT) 7 September 2019 (Sacramento,California, USA): SCI Impact Celebration - Solar Cookers International invites donors to an exclusive event from 3:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
• Solar cooker manufacturer: Haines Solar Cookers
• Solar cooker reviews: Roger Haines provides a video review of various styles of solar cookers.
• (EVENT) 26 June 2019 (Chesterfield, Vermont, USA): Cooking with the Sun - A hands-on class for ages 6-12 to learn about solar cooking, and go home with recipes and a solar oven.
• India news: Time To Replace LPG? This Gujarat Man’s Solar Stove Lowers Cooking Costs by 80% - The Better India
• Photovoltaic cooking news: Kenya launches US $461m off grid solar solutions - Construction Review Online
• Facebook group: Minnesota Solar Cookers group
• Facebook group: Copenhagen Solar Cooker Group
• India news: RK Singh reviews the issues pertaining to Renewable Energy sector, calls upon the lenders - Dariya News
• USA news: Citizens for Solar hosts 37th annual solar cooking demonstration in Tucson, Arizona
• (EVENT) 22 June 2019 (St.Paul, Minnesota, USA): Summer solstice potluck picnic, with solar cooked samples, at 5:30 p.m. in Hampden Park.
• India news: Increasing the share of cleaner cooking among rural households of India - Observer Research Foundation
• Presentation slides: Proposals to finance energy projects of developing countries by the voluntary compensation of greenhouse gas emissions (Engish, German) - Dieter Seifert
• Germany interview: Wolfgang Scheffler: Die Geschichte des “Scheffler-Spiegels” - SunPod
• South Africa vendor: Sustainable.co.za
• Solar cooking book: Forni Solari (Italian)
• Heat storage news: Solar Stove reduces the cooking costs by 80% and is a safer alternative - Tech Explorist
• Photovoltaic cooking news: Bancha, the first solar kitchen only village in India
• South Africa news: Sustainable energy was the focus on Africa Day - South Coast Herald
• Sweden individual: Sara Hjalmarsson
• Sweden blog: Sara Hjalmarsson's Blog - (English version)
• Annual Report: Solar Cookers International's Annual Report for 2018
• Funding resource: Unlocking Public and Private Finance for the Poor - UN Capital Development Fund

• Fresnel lens concern: Heliac offers a directive on the use of their product to avoid accidentals fires
• Design and plans: The E&S Solar Oven
• Report: Solar Water Pasteurization and Water Disinfection in Developing Countries - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Discussion forum archive: Solar Cooking Archive Discussion Forums
• Uganda Facebook group: Solar Connect Association Uganda Gulu Branch
• Mali news: Togo Tilé reports stellar solar product sales in 2018
• Montenegro individual: Bozina Komatina
• Annual report: Rapport d’activités 2018 - Bolivia Inti-Sud Soleil
• Research paper: Ensuring the Completion of Solar Cooking Process under Unexpected Reduction in Solar Irradiance - Atul Sagade, et al
• SolSource news: Available on Amazon.com
• Kenya Facebook group: Solar Cooking Introduction
• Italy Facebook group: SolAAR Lab
• Wiki article: Health benefits of solar cooking
• Heat storage news: Sun Buckets documentary
• Solar cooker design: GoSun Go
• India news: World Earth Day: On Mission to Save Environment, Gujarat Engineer Designs Solar Cooker That Costs Just Rs 100 - News 18
• Funding resource: UNDP Transparency Portal
• USA Facebook group: Secret Solar Institute of North Nevada
• Brazil Facebook group: Garota Intelligentsia

• Fresnel solar cooker news: You could soon save hundreds on your energy bills with this ‘solar oven’ that uses heat of the SUN to cook your dinner - The Sun
• Sweden news: SaltX hackathon winners to solve climate change - The Daily Telescope
• Philippines news: A shelter driven by the sun - Inquirer.Net
• Photovotaic solar cooker news: After Saubhagya, govt plans induction stoves for the poor - Live Mint
• Photovotaic solar cooker news: Bridging the last mile: Accelerating access to cooking energy in India - Opinion by Amit Kumar | ET EnergyWorld - Energyworld
• India news: On Mission to Save Environment, Gujarat Engineer Designs Solar Cooker That Costs Just Rs 100 - NEWS 18
• Evacuated-tube cooker news: We tested the GoSun Go solar oven — here’s what we thought - Inhabitat
• Mexico news: Mexican student develops cactus capsules to purify water with the aid of a solar cooker - The Yucatan Times
• Afghanistan news: Using the sun to reduce air pollution in Kabul - The Hindu
• Project funder: Global Environment Facility (GEF)
• USA news: Allen changes focus to solar energy - Bingham County Chronicle
• Cyprus news: Cyprus inventor and entrepreneur explains his solar cooker business - CyprusMail Online
• Research paper: An investigation of a solar cooker with parabolic trough concentrator - Muhamman Noman, et al

• Uganda news: Four Ugandan companies win grants to power refugee camps - Uganda 7
• (EVENT) 5-7 July 2019 (Trozena, Cyprus): Solar Cooking with a black ceramic steam cooker
• NGO news: SCI's Performance Evaluation Process named as Finalist in MIT Climate CoLab "Energy Supply 2018" contest
• Manufacturer news: Heliac Solar earns the Judges' Choice Award in MIT Climate CoLab "Energy Supply 2018" contest
• India news: Smart Solar Cooking Solutions Design National Challenge 2019 for young Indian innovators. Application required by 31 March 2019
• Mexico news: The Mexican NGO Techamos Una Mano donates solar cookers to owners of crowd-built houses in Oaxaca
• Materials: Graphene Device Sops Up Sunlight, Heats to 160 °C (320 °F) in Seconds - IEEE Spectrum
• France Facebook group: Les Festins Photoniques
• Solar Cookers International news: SCI Blog
• Photovoltaic cooking paper: Insulated Solar Electric Cooking – Tomorrow's healthy affordable stoves?
• (EVENT) 30-31 May 2019: Pathways to Clean Cooking 2050: Leaving No-one Behind (Wexford, Ireland) - The conference will focus attention on reaching the furthest behind first, with topics such as: 􏰀households and settings, evaluating pathways to modern sustainable cooking energy systems, policy options, and more.
• Book: The tale of a young Bangladeshi boy who enters his school's sustainability contest with a solar cooker design to help improve his family's health - Kids Can Press
• Cooking news: GoSun Thermo tracks food temperature wirelessly
• Cooking pot news: Heat retention myths and facts: Does cast iron hold heat better than clad? - CenturyLife.org
• Solar cooker design: Newton Solar Oven
• Germany news: Kooperation beim Klimaschutz - Sonnenenergie
• Cooking pot news: Soot-based coatings for solar cookers - H. Servín-Campuzano, et al

• India news: Vocational Training On Preservation Of Fruits And Vegetables Concludes At Krishi Vigyan Kendra Fatehgarh Sahib - 5 Dariya News
• Manufacturer news: New stove manufacturer in India uses heat storage for evening cooking
• (EVENT) 22-24 January 2020: CONSOLFOOD2020 (Faro, Portugal) - The next solar thermal food processing conference is being planned, and is encouraging submission of abstracts, by 31 May 2019.
• Education news: Wellesley author’s book has kids cooking with solar power - The Swellesley Report
• (EVENT) September 2019 (Benguerir Green City, Morocco): Solar Decathlon AFRICA
• Solar drying news: Solar Energy Drying in Haiti: Reducing Peanut Loss
• France vendor: Soleil Vert
• Solar wall oven news: Window-mounted solar oven - Design Innovation Center (Mumbai)
• India news: StartupBharat: From solar stoves to 3D printing, four stories of innovation from Gujarat - YourStory

• Carbon credit news: Compensation of CO₂ emissions as a global opportunity for climate protection (English, Spanish) - Dieter Seifert
• Individual news: RPCV Patricia McArdle: PCV, Diplomat, Novelist, Solar Cook - Peace Corps Worldwide
• GoSun news: GoSun woos outdoor cooks with Fusion's solar power - TechXplore
• (EVENT) 6-7 April 2019 (Altötting, Germany): - EG-Solar is sponsoring a solar cooking conference in Altötting, Germany in conjunction with local students. The conference language will be German. Contact Bernhard Müller if interested in more information.
• (EVENT) 8-10 May 2019 (Florianopolis, Brazil): - ENSUS 2019 - VII Encontro de Sustentabilidade em Projeto
• Evacuated-tube cooker news: GoSun's Fusion solar cooker revealed at CES 2019 - C|Net
• Puerto Rico news: Faith-Based Social Entrepreneurs Bank Puerto Rico Trash Will Fuel Island's Growth - Forbes
• (EVENT) 21-23 March 2019 (Eldoret, Kenya): - The AfriShiners 3rd International Workshop will take place in Eldoret, Kenya in March 2019 (Unfortunately, registration is full for this event). More information...
• Namibia news: Solar cooking impresses workshop participants - The Namibian