Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS)
- Project timeframe
- 1 October 2018 - 30 June 2023
- Theme
- Environmental processes and management
- Amount awarded
- 11,177,882.19
- Funder ID
- Department for International Development
Project leader: Prof Ed Brown
Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) is a five-year programme funded by UK Aid (DFID) which aims to spark a revolution through rapidly accelerating the transition from biomass to clean cooking on a global scale.
By integrating modern energy cooking services into the planning for electricity access, MECS hopes to leverage investment in renewable energies (both grid and off-grid) to address the clean cooking challenge. In addition, MECS is supporting new innovations in other cooking fuels such as biogas, LPG (bio) and ethanol. The intended outcome is a market-ready range of innovations (technology and business models) which lead to improved choice of affordable and reliable modern energy cooking services for consumers. We will seek to have the MECS principles adopted in the SDG 7.1 global tracking framework and hope that participating countries will incorporate modern energy cooking services in energy policies and planning.