Sun King, a supplier of off-grid solar energy products with operations in Africa and Asia, announces the acquisition of PayGo Energy, a leading provider of clean cooking appliances.
Sun King, which supplies electricity to over 95 million households, aims to make clean cooking appliances, powered by solar energy, electricity grids and other clean energy sources, more accessible than ever before, at a time when 3 billion people worldwide use polluting and harmful wood and charcoal stoves.
The benefits of a transition to clean cooking - both in terms of stoves and fuels - are considerable: reduced carbon emissions and deforestation, improved health and greater equality between men and women.
- Every year, 3.2 million people die prematurely from illnesses attributable to air pollution linked to cooking fuels.
- As women are often responsible for preparing meals and collecting firewood, they are more exposed than men to polluting fumes.
- In the developing countries of Asia, 1.5 billion people have no access to clean cooking facilities, eleven times more than the number without access to electricity.
- Fossil fuels used for cooking account for around 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions, almost as much as those generated by the aviation sector(2.5%).
- 34% of the world's firewood is unsustainable, contributing to forest erosion and climate change.
