Alpha Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd

Mission
To develop an environmental friendly, affordable, portable, long lasting and simple to use cooking stove which will drastically reduce fuel consumption and indoor air pollution.
Organization Type	Private Industry

Contact Information

Primary Contact	Mr. Ashwin Patel ap@wallguard.net	Secondary Contact
Address	3434 Browns Mill Rd Atlanta, GA 30354 United States	Website	www.alphaindia.co.in
		Phone	404 456 8481
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Our Focus

Primary Initiatives, Target Populations, and Scope of Work:
1. Working with NGO for demonstration in rural communities 2. Distributing in tribal areas through State Government Tribal Department 3. Working with central government for tax exemption 4. Developing network of NGO in other countries
Fuels/Technologies:	Biogas Biomass	Sectors of Experience:	Agriculture Energy Renewable Energy Rural Development Small Business Have been in bussiness for last 40 years. Has worked in four different countries. - Ugnada, Kenya, India, USA	Countries of Operation:	Djibouti Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Madagascar Mozambique Nigeria Rwanda Senegal South Africa Sudan Tanzania Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe India Myanmar Nepal Sri Lanka Australia

Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas

Social/Cultural barriers to using traditional fuels and stoves:

Eco Stove is a self starter where user can start cooking effortlessly. It is simple, portable and easily adaptable for cooking by everyone including old and illiterate.

Alpha Eco Stove which works on the principal of gasification uses less than 70% biomass. Eco Stove's CO emission to cook is only 6.1G compared to the 20G benchmark. The parts per million emission to cook is 211MG compared to the 1500MG benchmark.

Eco stove will work with any locally available biomass including cow dung.

Eco Stove's 70% in fuel savings will help forestation. Reduction in time for collecting fire wood and cooking will promote better social benefits and healthier lives.

Market development for improved cooking technologies:

Eco Stove is marketed as a wood gas stove for camping and hiking. Since the last three years, all necessary improvements have been made before launching this product to the rural communities. All safety suggestions from Aprovecho Research Center have been incorporated in Eco Stove.

Technology standardization for cooking, heating and ventilation:

Boiling 5 liters of water with less than 750 Grams of biomass which emits less than 250 ppm emission to cook.

Indoor air pollution exposure and health monitoring:

The NGO will be encouraged to fill out a simple survey form regarding the health conditions of the users before and after.

Relevant Publications or Studies

None noted

Our Contribution to the Partnership

We will help in product development in other partnership countries.