e-waste to e-cook: AMPERES presents our innovative lithium-ion battery recycling initiative at the 2020 Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Virtual Conference

Villagers in Pannyo village learn how to assemble their own 2.5kWh recycled lithium ion power packs

“Existing strategies are struggling to solve the problem of unsustainable, unhealthy but enduring cooking practices, which place particular burden on women. After decades of investments… the technologies developed have had limited impact on development outcomes.”

Today 3 billion people are using biomass stoves, and there are 4 million premature deaths due to unhealthy cooking practices.

November 2020, the University of Loughborough and the MECS program organised a 7 day international virtual conference to understand the global progress in clean cooking.

AMPERES was one of seven organisations presenting innovative new approaches to advance clean cooking.

We presented on our project to protoype and pilot affordable, mobile 2.5kWh lithium-ion power packs in a rural village in the Central Dry Zone (Myanmar).

Our presentation can be found here: