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Breaking a cycle with NGO’s

Clean energy access can support stability.

In countries where incomes are low, fuel is expensive and electricity grids are missing or unstable. Energy poverty creates a vicious cycle of deforestation, pollution, ill-health and low-income outcomes.

Energy is the foundation of human activity, and by creating a technology that is cost-effective, adds value to products, outputs at commercial scales, and can be maintained by end-users or local artisans — using free and clean solar energy — it’s possible to increase incomes and well-being while reversing deforestation and reinforcing local resilience to economic and environmental disruptions.

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Productive use of clean energy

Direct solar economy with Artisans, SMEs and Communities

Our approach is to complete the work achieved by the solar cookers movement that existed since the ‘70. Solar cookers are great, most of them have free plans online, and solar energy is free and abundant for households to cook. Millions of solar cookers are installed. But they are sometimes limited because they are small and this is where Lytefire comes.

We have first mostly focused on bread making but we have also developed other applications related to food transformation. Farmers are the backbone of a country and a Lytefire oven installed in the village is preventing cutting trees all around. Small schools canteens need to cook volumes daily and it can be done with big pots on a Lytefire. Artisans can drastically reduce the energy bill by using it as well and produce between 50kg and 110kg of bread per day depending on their recipe. Supporting local and circular economy as well as people autonomy and environment is key.

Crisis and disasters of all kinds are happening more and more, and, even with tons of connectivity, mega renewable plans, etc., we can see that the vulnerable populations still do not have a massive access to clean reliable energy. Lytefire is a powerful, clean and robust device reaching 300°C, simple enough to be maintained by its users, built locally and powerful enough to run a profitable activity. And that is the Lytefire PRO.