BURN is revolutionizing the cookstove sector in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Our commercial model is saving lives and forests, and, for our customers, millions of dollars every year.
Burn is revolutionizing the cookstove sector in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our clean cookstoves change lives and save forests. And, for our customers throughout Africa, that means healthier homes and millions in cost savings every year.
BURN is honored to have won 2015 Ashden Clean Energy for Women and Girls Award. We are thrilled to have our work recognized by The Ashden International Awards, the world’s leading green energy awards.
Our mission is to make clean-energy products that improve the lives of our customers, employees and all living creatures.
Since late 2013, we have sold over 449, 200 stoves. These stoves have changed the lives of 2.1M people, saving them over $112 million.
Our goal is to provide clean cooking solutions to the 900 million people – 1.8 billion by 2050 – of Sub-Saharan Africa.
THE CHALLENGE:
Traditional cooking methods are bankrupting families, killing people and destroying forests in Sub-Saharan Africa.
OUR SOLUTION:
Locally manufacture cookstoves that people love, save them $150-300/year, improve their health and offer a payback period of only 2-3 months.
BURN is the first cookstove company in the world to receive investment from Acumen Fund, General Electric and the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Why?
What does it take to get a clean cookstove to a woman like Teresia Wanjogo?
Our 4 person, expat and Kenyan market research team works with local cooks to ascertain their needs.
During the multi-year design process, the team works closely with both users and our US design team to test and improve numerous prototypes.
Our 12 person design team based in Kenya and Washington State designs and fabricates stove prototpyes and then optimizes them based on feedback from the lab and the consumer.
BURN is currently developing a number of revolutionary biomass and fossil fuel cooks for Sub Saharan Africa.
Our 5 person testing team conducts emissions and performance testing in the US and field testing in Kenya.
Our 50 person manufacturing team – half of whom are women – make a stove per minute in Sub-Saharan Africa’s first modern cook stove manufacturing facility.
Our 19 person Sales & Marketing team works with our network of over 180 distributors to bring clean cooking solutions to our customers.
Our innovative relationships with M-Kopa and Equity Bank – our two most successful microfinance distributors – allow consumers to purchase a jikokoa for only 40 cents/day (over 4 months). By investing in the jikokoa, they also make 50cents/day in fuel savings.
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$112MOF HOUSEHOLD SAVINGS PER YEAR
