AFRICAN CLEAN ENERGY
A cookstove. A solar home system. A data platform.
One device.
The ACE One is a biomass gasification cookstove, an integrated solar panel and battery for lighting and phone charging, and a connected device that records every cooking session for carbon MRV.
One purchase. Three capabilities. Fifteen years of deployments across five countries.
15+
Years of operations
100,000+
Units deployed
5
Countries
Article 6
Compliance carbon programme
Recognition and frameworks
EY Impact Entrepreneur of the Year
2021
Berkeley Carbon Trading Project
Cookstove offset quality review
Gold Standard
Certified carbon programmes
Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Compliance market participant
HOW THE ACE ONE WORKS
Three systems, engineered to work together.
Clean cooking
Biomass gasification with fan-driven combustion. Burns nearly all types of biomass - pellets, briquettes, corn cobs, coconut shell, bamboo, sticks. Dramatically reduced smoke and fuel consumption.
Solar electricity
Integrated solar panel and battery provide LED lighting, phone charging, and small appliance power. Addresses the full spectrum of household energy needs alongside cooking.
Digital monitoring
Onboard microprocessor logs every cooking session. Data syncs through ACE Connect to support PAYGO payments, customer service, and carbon MRV. Every device is a data point.
WHY COOKING MATTERS
Cooking is the energy load. Electricity is a rounding error.
The real energy load
Cooking dominates household energy use in emerging markets. One hour of cooking consumes ~1,000× the energy of one hour of lighting.
What solar home systems solve
Lights and phone charging are a fraction of the problem. Solar home systems alone cannot solve cooking energy demand.
MULTI-FUEL
Burns what's local.
Most competitors are pellet-only. The ACE One burns nearly all types of biomass, so households use whatever fuel is locally available.
Pellets
Briquettes
Corn cobs
Coconut shell
Bamboo
Sticks
Agricultural waste
Animal dung
SPECIFICATIONS
At a glance
10W
Solar panel
32Wh
LiFePO4 battery
8hrs
LED runtime (2 lamps)
8
Fuel types supported
Detailed technical specifications available on request.
THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE
Clean cooking is the largest mitigation opportunity nobody talks about.
2.4B
people worldwide still rely on traditional cooking methods
2.5Bt
CO2 emitted annually from traditional cooking
4M+
premature deaths per year from indoor air pollution
ACE addresses all three dimensions - health, climate, and energy access - through a single integrated system backed by device-level data.
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