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Institutional Solar Thermal Cooking Stove

A thermal solar cooking system for institutional cooking within schools and hospitals

June 2020

Institutional Solar Thermal Cooking Stove

A thermal solar cooking system for institutional cooking within schools and hospitals

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date June 19, 2020
From Sweden
Maturity stage TRL 9 / CRI 2 - Commercial Trial Small Scale

Addressing the lack of electricity, reliable supply and sustainable energy sources, this solution developed a tailor-made cooking system with the same capacity as the wood fuel stoves, using only the sun's rays as fuel. Apart from a minor demand of power for solar tracking, sustained by a small PV panel, the system requires no electricity or other fuel, storing heat for morning cooking. The institutional solar stove consists of a number of solar collectors (2 to 6, depending on application type, location and need for input heat), a heat storage component and an adequate number of cooking units, for school and larger-scale cooking - referred to as sufuria heaters. The heat is transferred between each component by means of thermosiphons, which are tubes, filled with water and at a slight sub-pressure. The solution helps to reduce cooking cost, deforestation, indoor pollution and improve the workplace environment for the cooks.

The Environmental Benefits

  • From 510 to 680 tons of CO2e emissions per school can be reduced annually
  • Indoor pollution from the burning of firewood could be reduced to almost zero
  • Between one and two hectares of forest could be saved from deforestation each year per school equipped

The Financial Benefits

  • Payback time of around three years

Target client profile

Activity Region

  • Headquarters
  • Activity

Company Profile

Renetech AB

Renetech was established in 2005 as a project developer in the field of renewable energy. Renetech’s business focus is bioresource recovery of energy and by-products (eg. nutrients) from a variety of biomass materials including organic residues and waste streams. Renetech is active in the area of Research and Development as a project developer, project partner and as a consultant for bioenergy, hydro, solar and resource recovery projects. Renetech has being working in East, West and Southern Africa since 2008.

Headquarters 111 40 Stockholm, Sweden
Type Company
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InnoEnergy

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