Heavy Duty Institutional Cook Stoves for Uganda

The purpose of this project activity is the manufacture and deployment of institutional improved cook stoves (IICS) in Uganda. The project aims to improve upon the traditional cooking methods used at more than 500 institutions, benefiting upwards of half a million individuals, reducing approximately 50,000 tons of CO2 emissions per annum, and approximately 325,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the course of the 7-year crediting period.The IICS may be of different models and/or different sizes and will consume firewood. The different models and/or different sizes of IICS are either manufactured by the local stove manufacturer and project participant (PP) Virunga Engineering Works (u) Limited (VEW) or purchased from other manufacturers. As schools and institutions move up in the energy ladder, and fuel briquettes made of agricultural residues become available in Uganda, these IICS could also be used with such fuel briquettes in the future. In the case that a school/institution/IICS will use briquettes made of renewable biomass (agricultural residues and/or firewood from renewable plantations), the PP will ensure that no emission reduction credits will be claimed from the fuel switch from non-renewable to renewable biomass but only from the fuel savings resulting from the introduction of the IICS. The IICS are both portable as well as fixed built-in types, serving schools and other institutional users like prisons, plantation estates and hospitals. These IICS are more efficient in transferring heat to the saucepans, and as such, IICS require less biomass fuel to perform an equivalent cooking task when compared to the baseline technology. This increase in efficiency translates directly to the large scale fuel savings over the traditional stoves currently in use. By reducing fuel consumption, the project activity reduces greenhouse gas emissions from the use of biomass fuels. This reduction in fuel consumption is estimated and corresponding CO2 emission reductions are calculated from these savings. The project activity shall initially deploy the VEW rocket stove IICS of 300 liters saucepan capacity to schools and institutions, but may distribute other saucepan capacities and/or models of IICS that meet the minimum thermal efficiency requirement of 20% later on. The different IICS sizes are conditioned by the saucepan capacity and range from 30 liters and up to 450 liters.

Project ID

GS5800

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Cookstoves · Household & Community

Removal or reduction

Reduction

Methodology

AMS-II.G. Energy efficiency measures in thermal applications of non-renewable biomass

Developer

Virunga Engineering Works · 1 project

Country

Uganda

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2018-08-01 to 2025-08-01

Estimated yearly credits

47,745

Scale

Small Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 13: Climate Action · Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being · Goal 15: Life On Land

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

Coordinates

1.0000, 32.0000

Source

Gold Standard registry (public API)

Note

Same coordinates are shared by 5 registry entries of one programme