BioLite Stove

Mission

BioLite develops affordable, ultra low emission, wood burning cook stoves. Since most people who cook on wood live away from reliable electricity supply, the BioLite stove can too; our technology harnesses the fire’s own waste heat to drive the stove’s efficient process. The result is a system that cuts wood consumption in half, reduces smoke emissions by 95% and nearly eliminates black carbon.

Organization Type Private Industry

Contact Information

Primary Contact
Mr. Jonathan Cedar
info@biolitestove.com
Secondary Contact


Address -
Berkeley, CA

United States
Website www.BioLiteStove.com
Phone 909-BL-Stove
Fax
Calling/Fax Instructions

Our Focus

Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work:

BioLite will be conducting field trials of our new thermoelectrically powered, forced air rocket stove, jointly developed with StoveTec, in the Spring of 2010. We are currently seeking partners for the testing and distribution of this new product.

Fuels/Technologies: Biomass
Thermoelectrics
Sectors of Experience: Renewable Energy
Product Development
Countries of Operation: Uganda

Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas

Social/Cultural barriers to using traditional fuels and stoves:

We acknowledge that cultural barriers are significant and have tried to address them by providing a product experience that closely follows traditional fire making. Unlike previous TLUD fan stoves that require finely chopped biomass to be fed under the pot, the BioLite stove leverages the well established StoveTec rocket design allowing users to feed long, uncut sticks into the fire.


Market development for improved cooking technologies:

We are keenly following the development of addressable stove markets and are committed to building a sustainable economic model that will bring clean stoves to millions of people. Carbon finance is a growing tool for closing consumer economic ability and product / program costs. We are also eager to see a similar black carbon market develop as BC could help incentivize low PM emissions in addition to fuel savings.


Technology standardization for cooking, heating and ventilation:

Technology is key to delivering improved stove performance and we believe that critical components must be mass manufactured in order to ensure consistent results. The BioLite team has a long history of developing mass manufactured consumer products and is eager to leverage this experience in the BOP markets.

We also believe that stove performance standards are necessary and products should be certified according to their fuel use and emissions characteristics. This will help consumers and funders differentiate between the available products and understand the benefits they are purchasing.


Indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring:

Monitoring is key to understanding how effective your stove or stove program really is. BioLite is currently working in partnership with UC Berkeley to develop low cost, thermoelectrically powered, wireless monitoring systems for stoves. These devices can be built into a predefined subset of stoves at the factory and will deliver long term, maintenance free, non-invasive stove usage data. In addition to understanding the adoption of your product, this data will be tremendously useful for verifying carbon credits.

Relevant Publications or Studies

Our Contribution to the Partnership

We look forward to being active members of the PCIA community. We are committed to sharing our knowledge and experience in technology and product development and are eager to learn from and collaborate with PCIA's many partners.