Africa’s leading clean cooking company and carbon project developer, BURN, has introduced its next-generation, tech-enabled electric cooking (e-cooking) product suite.
The ECOA Induction Cooker and the ECOA Electric Pressure Cooker from BURN are the continent's first domestically designed and constructed advanced e-cooking appliances.
Including IOT (Internet of Things) sensors in both products enables the business to efficiently manage the customer journey, including tracking real-time energy use.
BURN Chief Executive Officer(CEO), Founder Peter Scott, stated that the brand is known for creating the most fuel-efficient natural-draft biomass stoves in Kenya and distributing them across the continent.
“While we know improved cookstoves still have a critical role to play for rural families, the future of clean cooking in Africa is electric,” he said.
Further, he stated that transitioning households that rely on charcoal to e-cooking represents a massive opportunity to democratize access to zero-indoor-emission cooking for low-income households.
By switching from cooking with charcoal to BURN’s e-cooking products, users can reduce their annual CO2 emissions by up to 4 tons, the equivalent of the CO2 absorbed by 200 mature trees in a year.
“Not only are we introducing a new line of revolutionary e-cooking appliances, but also products that are designed for local cooking practices with regional after-sales support and service.”
Before the end of the year, the items will be introduced in five other African nations in addition to Kenya.
Giving families a more affordable and environmentally friendly cooking option is anticipated to revolutionize food throughout Africa.
According to Scott, BURN has created a cutting-edge "pay as you cook" finance option that enables customers to make tiny mobile phone payments to assure accessibility for low-income homes.
Users can purchase their coo across devices over a year by making weekly payments after a small initial investment.
1.2 million people in Kenya's urban areas survive on less than $2 per day, while the typical household spends about $8 per week on charcoal. Users can save about $3 per week on fuel until they have complete ownership of the product, which amounts to an annual decrease in household fuel costs of about 50%.
Founded in 2011, BURN was created to save forests by revolutionizing the clean cookstove sector.
BURN is now Africa’s leading clean cooking company and one of the only carbon project developers to cover the whole carbon value chain, from project design and in-house monitoring to credit issuance.
Headquartered in Kenya and with direct operations in 9 African countries.
The company has made and distributed nearly 4 million clean cookstoves, transforming the lives of over 20 million people and preventing 14 million tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere.
