Mayon Turbo Stove Back to Front Burner

SRE is renewing efforts to expand its clean cookstove activities with the Mayon Turbo Stove (MTS) that won SRE an award in the 2006 World Bank Development Marketplace Competition in Manila. SRE is participating in the recently-launched Clean Cookstove Alliance, an initiative that was announced by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Clinton Global Initiative forum in late September.

In 2009, SRE introduced the Mayon Turbo Stove in Liberia as part of SRE's training program on the integrated processing of coconuts, under the USAID-funded Liberia Community Infrastructure Program (LCIP).

"We needed a portable, fast-lighting, clean-burning stove to speed up our sessions, particularly those involving cooking," explained SRE President Perla Manapol. "The MTS was the perfect solution," adding that despite the lack of rice hulls, "there were plenty of abandoned woodchips and nutshells that proved to be ideal fuels." More important, local fabricators were able to "clone" the MTS that - during a "cookstove contest" - easily out-performed the traditional, charcoal-fuelled cookstove.

SRE's plans include expanding the MTS reach not only in the Philippines and in Liberia, but also in other countries without access to clean cooking mechanisms.

The Mayon Turbo Stove was first introduced in the Philippines by the non-profit organization, REAP-Canada.