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Energy efficiency and sustainable cooking in Mozambique

African man works on creating a cooking stove

In Pemba, Mozambique, we run a project in support of sustainable cooking that promotes the use of more energy-efficient cookers in the population, produced by small local companies. The initiative contributes to increasing the sustainability of the Rovuma Basin's natural gas utilisation programme, where we operate through the Rovuma LNG and Coral South projects. Through the Promoting Energy Efficiency and Clean Cooking initiative, we are supporting sustainable artisanal activities, creating jobs and fostering new local entrepreneurship. The appliances are also less harmful to health and more efficient for food preparation than traditional ones. As Eni's Clean Cooking programme progresses, we expect to see a transition to even more efficient cooking systems, known as advanced cookstoves, which can achieve up to zero emissions.

Together with natural gas production and liquefaction activities, from 2021 we will promote sustainable development in the country through partnerships and programmes that support the population in the areas of education and technical training, food security and economic diversification.

Project features

Activity start date: 2018 - present

Mozambico

Access to off-grid energy
Access to off-grid energy
Economic diversification
Economic diversification
Community health
Community health

SDG 7 Affordable and clean energy 

Eni Rovuma Basin

AVSI
ExxonMobil
Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos (ENH)
CNPC
Galp
KOGAS

Actions and objectives of the project

An initiative that protects people's health

The new cookers for the city of Pemba are more efficient and sustainable in both environmental and health terms. Due to their slower and more prolonged combustion, they consume less charcoal, which makes them strategic in combating deforestation caused by cutting the wood from which charcoal is made for domestic use. By producing less smoke, they have a lower impact on families in Pemba, particularly children.

Tangible support for local entrepreneurship

The distribution of the improved cookers among the most vulnerable families also involves local artisans. The entire community, in fact, is affected by the emergence of small factories within it, paving the way for a truly sustainable market for these new devices that can then be sold in other areas of the country.

Highlights
4877
ICS

(improved cookstoves) distributed between 2021 and 2024 through the Clean Cooking Programme


25 k
households

reached by the initiative


5
local companies

supported to produce cookstoves efficiently


162
ktCO₂eq

potential to generate credits up to 2027 (tonns of CO₂ equivalent per annum)


4877
ICS

(improved cookstoves) distributed between 2021 and 2024 through the Clean Cooking Programme

25 k
households

reached by the initiative

5
local companies

supported to produce cookstoves efficiently

162
ktCO₂eq

potential to generate credits up to 2027 (tonns of CO₂ equivalent per annum)

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