Publication - Malawi eCooking Roadmap
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Title
Malawi eCooking Roadmap
Publisher
MECS
Author
MECS
Published in
March 2024
Abstract
Malawi’s national grid has one of the world’s highest shares of renewable energy but, despite over 550,000 households (14%) having a national grid connection, less than 2% of the population are primarily cooking with electricity. The majority of connections are in urban areas where, according to data collected in 2022, as many as 360,000 urban households (42%) have a connection to the national grid but are not cooking with electricity at all. Instead, they heavily rely on unsustainably sourced charcoal (82% use charcoal as part of their cooking stack) despite it being illegal in Malawi, damaging to health and the environment, and increasingly expensive. According to detailed research in neighbouring countries and preliminary analysis for Malawi, cooking with electricity may now cost as little as a quarter of cooking with charcoal.
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