Clean Cooking Fuel & Usage

In short

Tokenises fuel supply and metered stove usage for off-grid households.

What it is

African Clean Energy runs a clean cooking and energy access programme built around the ACE One, a biomass gasification cookstove with an integrated solar panel, battery, and onboard sensor that logs each cooking session. The activity reduces greenhouse gas emissions and household air pollution by replacing traditional cooking with efficient fan-driven combustion that consumes less biomass fuel, and the device-level data supports measurement, reporting, and verification. Credits are certified under Gold Standard programmes and issued for metered and measured stove use, with independent validation and verification of the data, and the programme also participates in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. One credit represents one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent reduced.

What it rewards

The reward is a credit called a Cooking Emission Reduction (CER). One credit stands for one tonne of carbon dioxide kept out of the atmosphere (or taken back out of it). One tonne of CO₂-equivalent verified-and-issued. A whole period of work is issued as one batch of credits at a time, in the same way a registry issues a batch.

What gets measured

To earn CER credits, a project has to measure and prove a few things. An independent reviewer checks the evidence before any credits are issued.

• The baseline: what would most likely have happened to the land or the emissions if the project had not gone ahead.

• The activity data for the period, with clear units and a clear source for every number.

• The net result actually achieved, checked by an independent reviewer before any credits are issued.

Who takes part

• Standard Registry. Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence.

• Project Proponent. Registers the project and submits monitoring reports.

• Validation & Verification Body. Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data.

How it works

1. 1

   The project team registers the project and its plan.

2. 2

   An independent reviewer checks that the plan is sound and that the benefit is real and would not have happened anyway.

3. 3

   The team looks after the site and measures the agreed indicators over time.

4. 4

   The independent reviewer verifies those measurements.

5. 5

   Credits are issued for the verified result, and a buyer can retire a credit to claim the benefit once.