Solar Cooking News

Solar Cooking News

SHE’s 10-person focus group solar cooker project in Eldoret, Kenya

SHE collaborated with Solar Education Project (SEP) and other partners to carry out a 20-person focus group solar cooker project in St. Joseph church in Eldoret county, Kenya. This project provided 20 beneficiaries with materials to make 20 solar cookers… Read More

SHE 2021 ANNUAL REPORT

Dear Friends of Solar Household Energy, Thank you for your interest and support for SHE.  Without your contributions we would be unable to offer low-income and remote communities in developing countries comprehensive programs introducing efficient, clean-energy solar cookstoves… Read More

SHE’s 10-person focus group project in Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya

SHE collaborated with multiple partners to carry out a 10-person focus group solar cooker project in Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya in June 2022. This small project costing only $1000 provided ten beneficiaries with solar cookers, heat-retention baskets,… Read More

Haines 2.0 study by University of Malaga measures its high power

Roger Haines, SHE Board member and maker of Haines Solar Cookers, partnered with the University of Malaga in Spain to test the Haines 2.0 solar cooker. This study, entitled “Experimental characterization of the thermal performance of the Haines… Read More

TR-38 for determining standard power of solar cookers using low-cost instruments

Paul Arveson, SHE Research Director, produced technical report 38 describing a method for measuring standard solar cooker power with low-cost commercial instruments. A previous Technical Report, TR-17, concluded that a low-cost lux meter can be used in place… Read More