PowerUp

Electric Cooking Distribution Network

PowerUp will address the current barriers for distributors to venture into e-cooking by testing and deploying an Electric Cooking Distribution Network. The company will bring together multiple components to enable last-mile distributors to have profitable e-cooking distribution businesses. In addition, the project will develop an IoT-enabled PAYG system and an e-cooking data cloud platform for analysis and software integration. The platform will allow for remote monitoring of the EPCs’ usage and analysis of e-cooking profiles for the stove distributors.   

Outcome and Impact

The project aims to sell 30,000 EPCs, creating enhanced energy access for 138,000 people and reducing 106,421 tCO2e annually. In addition, PowerUp plans to create 13 permanent jobs, with 33% of leadership positions filled by women. Savings on energy-related expenditure is estimated to be EUR 2.2M.