Business PV Cooking Last Mile Communities

The report examines how to increase the use of solar PV-powered cooking solutions in marginalized 'last-mile' communities by addressing financial and awareness barriers through public and private capital and scalable business models.

• The adoption of high-tier (Tier 4+) clean cooking solutions is a critical need that is frequently underfunded and not sufficiently prioritized. Barriers to widespread use include low end-user awareness of benefits and high upfront costs.
• Solar PV-powered cooking technologies have become more cost-competitive and financially viable due to the falling cost of solar PV modules. Viable options include pure electric cooking (eCooking) powered by solar PV, as well as ethanol stoves and biomass gasifier stoves supported by PV.
• Overcoming barriers in last-mile communities—which are often off-grid or marginalized in national energy and climate policy—requires both supply- and demand-side interventions, specifically affordable financing for scalable, market-based business models.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Business PV Cooking Last Mile Communities. https://www.sei.org/publications/business-pv-cooking-last-mile-communities/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Business PV Cooking Last Mile Communities. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/business-pv-cooking-last-mile-communities/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025business, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Business PV Cooking Last Mile Communities}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/business-pv-cooking-last-mile-communities/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }