Improved Stove Distribution

Delivering our stove technologies to households and institutions (schools, hospitals, etc.) across the globe

2011: This year, StoveTec will branch off from Aprovecho to become its own entity. This transition will create a unique entrepreneurial model of a for-profit business with a “social good” mandate that supports our non-profit with royalties and other resources. StoveTec itself will benefit by having direct access to Aprovecho’s world-renowned research and development lab. Meanwhile, the Institutional Stove program is working to set up distribution and production projects with the World Food Program and numerous multilateral government aid agencies.

2010: This year, ARC launched two stove distribution programs: StoveTec, a for-profit company that sells the ARC-designed rocket stove; and the new Institutional Stove, designed for a 60 liter pot that can feed hundreds of people. While still under the auspices of ARC, StoveTec distributed 24,000 stoves in its first year. A representative from The Programme for Basic Energy and Conservation (a project of the German aid agency GTZ) told StoveTec that “....users really like the stoves. The households that received the stoves are still using the stoves over and above other technologies.” Aprovecho also introduced our Institutional Stove to government and non-government agencies in eight countries, and contracted with the International Centre for Energy, Environment, and Development to install three institutional stoves in a girls' school in Nigeria (see photo).