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The Energy and Resources Institute
Supply-side
Financing of
Improved Biomass
Cookstoves in India
CONTENTS Improved Cookstoves (ICS): An Indian Perspective
• Improved Cookstoves (ICS): An Even as India rapidly emerges as a global centre of technology development,
Indian perspective 1 around 780 million of its citizens are estimated to cook food on traditional stoves
• Improved Cookstoves Market that burn solid fuels.1 Smoky as these cookstoves are, the household air pollution
in India 2 resulting from them is attributed to cause 1.04 million premature deaths annually,
• Sources of Finance for Cookstove from cancer, respiratory problems, and other ailments.2 Currently, the dominant
Suppliers 5 biomass energy technologies, for cooking in households, are traditional chulhas,
• New Sources of Finance for i.e., mud stoves along with some cement and pottery or brick stoves, normally with
Cookstove Suppliers 6 no operating chimneys or hoods. Most of these biomass-fired cookstoves perform
• Rationale for Financing Cookstove at a poor efficiency and emit harmful pollutants like carbon monoxide (CO) and
Suppliers 6 particulate matter. Some of these products of incomplete combustion are also being
• Modes of Finance Support: Subsidy, increasingly recognized as serious contributor to climate change.3 Cleaner burning
Grants or Credit? 8 options that have the potential to be affordable and accessible to households
• Policy Recommendations 10 burning solid fuels can help attenuate many adverse effects of inefficient burning.
• References 11 ICS are widely recognized as a practical alternative to supplant traditional stoves
in rural Indian households.
Author
S Arun, Area Convener and Associate Fellow, FUEL COLLECTOR FUEL PURCHASER
Rural Resources Management, TERI
Advisor
Dr Ibrahim H Rehman, Director, Social
Transformation, TERI
Acknowledgements RURAL 103 million 44 million
This discussion paper is the result of a project households households
supported by the Department for International
Development, Government of UK on URBAN 0.2 million 16 million
dissemination of clean energy technologies in households households
India and Africa.
Figure 1: Segmentation of solid fuel users in India
The Energy and Resources Institute Source: Dalberg, 2013
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003
Tel. 2468 2100 or 4150 4900
Fax. 2468 2144 or 2468 2145
w w w . t e r iIndia +91 Delhi (0) 11 i n . o r g
The Energy and Resources Institute
Supply-side
Financing of
Improved Biomass
Cookstoves in India
CONTENTS Improved Cookstoves (ICS): An Indian Perspective
• Improved Cookstoves (ICS): An Even as India rapidly emerges as a global centre of technology development,
Indian perspective 1 around 780 million of its citizens are estimated to cook food on traditional stoves
• Improved Cookstoves Market that burn solid fuels.1 Smoky as these cookstoves are, the household air pollution
in India 2 resulting from them is attributed to cause 1.04 million premature deaths annually,
• Sources of Finance for Cookstove from cancer, respiratory problems, and other ailments.2 Currently, the dominant
Suppliers 5 biomass energy technologies, for cooking in households, are traditional chulhas,
• New Sources of Finance for i.e., mud stoves along with some cement and pottery or brick stoves, normally with
Cookstove Suppliers 6 no operating chimneys or hoods. Most of these biomass-fired cookstoves perform
• Rationale for Financing Cookstove at a poor efficiency and emit harmful pollutants like carbon monoxide (CO) and
Suppliers 6 particulate matter. Some of these products of incomplete combustion are also being
• Modes of Finance Support: Subsidy, increasingly recognized as serious contributor to climate change.3 Cleaner burning
Grants or Credit? 8 options that have the potential to be affordable and accessible to households
• Policy Recommendations 10 burning solid fuels can help attenuate many adverse effects of inefficient burning.
• References 11 ICS are widely recognized as a practical alternative to supplant traditional stoves
in rural Indian households.
Author
S Arun, Area Convener and Associate Fellow, FUEL COLLECTOR FUEL PURCHASER
Rural Resources Management, TERI
Advisor
Dr Ibrahim H Rehman, Director, Social
Transformation, TERI
Acknowledgements RURAL 103 million 44 million
This discussion paper is the result of a project households households
supported by the Department for International
Development, Government of UK on URBAN 0.2 million 16 million
dissemination of clean energy technologies in households households
India and Africa.
Figure 1: Segmentation of solid fuel users in India
The Energy and Resources Institute Source: Dalberg, 2013
Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex,
Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110 003
Tel. 2468 2100 or 4150 4900
Fax. 2468 2144 or 2468 2145
w w w . t e r iIndia +91 Delhi (0) 11 i n . o r g
