Rwanda eCooking market assessment.

Bisaga, Iwona; Menyeh, Bridget

Abstract

Over the last decade, Rwanda has been enjoying strong economic growth rates, creating a favourable environment for new businesses and lifting people out of poverty. The Government of Rwanda (GoR) are actively working towards economic development and reforms in the financial and business sectors which is demonstrated in the country moving from 139 to 38 on the annual World Bank Doing Business Report between 2010 and 2016. A lot of progress has been made on electrification with coverage increasing from 10% in 2010 to 66.8% in 2021. The total installed generation capacity in Rwanda is currently 235.6 MW (11% imported, the rest domestically generated: 50.6% hydrological resources, 43.3% thermal, and 5% solar). However, most of the population still rely on polluting fuels such as firewood and charcoal for cooking. Currently 0% of Rwandans use electricity as their primary cooking fuel. Rwandan cuisine is largely compatible with electric cooking appliances, such as Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) and rice cookers therefore there is a high potential to transition households to incorporating electric cooking in the future fuel mix. There has been interest expressed by the GoR and the private sector to pursue this opportunity, however, it is currently in its early stages.

Citation

BISAGA, I. and MENYEH, B. 2022. Rwanda eCooking market assessment. Loughborough: Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) [online]. Available from: https://tinyurl.com/2rhp2rrw

• Report Type: Project Report
• Online Publication Date: Feb 28, 2022
• Publication Date: Feb 28, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jun 7, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 8, 2024
• Publisher: Modern Energy Cooking Services
• Keywords: eCooking; Food preparation; Energy usage; Rwanda
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1721252
• Publisher URL: https://tinyurl.com/2rhp2rrw
• Additional Information: This accompanying file contains the report as well as presentation slides which has been incorporated into a single file on this repository.