IGNISCook Smarter, Live Better.
Ignis helps schools, hospitals and other institutions switch from firewood to clean, efficient cooking. We assess the kitchen, identify the right solution, structure the transition and deliver the system, then measure what changes.
Institutions need cleaner, more affordable ways to cook. Technology providers need qualified institutional demand. Financiers need projects they can assess and support. Governments and development partners need reliable data on where the need exists, what solutions fit, and what happens after deployment.
Ignis connects these pieces. We validate demand, structure projects, connect them to technology and financing, support implementation and measure the results.
We assess the kitchen, meal volumes, fuel use, infrastructure and operating conditions.
We translate verified demand into a technically and commercially viable project or portfolio.
We model the economics and identify an appropriate financing pathway.
We coordinate technology, installation, training and handover.
We track energy use, system performance, savings and uptime.
We produce evidence that institutions, financiers and programme partners can use.
Every step runs on CleanCookIQ, our data and decision infrastructure.
Less smoke and open-fire exposure for cooks.
A structured service payment replaces unpredictable fuel purchasing.
Less dependence on wet wood and fire-starting time.
Less firewood storage, handling and delivery coordination.
Energy use and system performance are monitored instead of estimated.
Lower reliance on traditional biomass.
For high-volume kitchens in schools, hospitals, correctional facilities and other institutions where steam generation is an appropriate transition pathway. We assess actual meal volumes and kitchen conditions, size the system, coordinate deployment and support ongoing performance.
Explore Institutional SteamEfficient electric cooking for applications where grid access, cooking demand and operating economics make it the right fit.
Explore Electric CookingFor counties, governments and development partners seeking coordinated transition across multiple institutions, from demand mapping and validation through financing, deployment and monitoring.
Explore Clean-Cooking ProgrammesWe don't just install equipment. We manage the transition.
Illustrative example based on a 1,200-learner boarding school at 2026 firewood prices. Actual savings depend on site conditions, meal volumes, fuel prices, system design and operating performance.
The equipment and installation have an upfront capital requirement. Where approved and available, Ignis can structure third-party capital, potentially including grants, concessional finance, results-based finance or carbon finance, with the institution repaying through a Clean Energy Service Agreement linked to its existing energy budget.
An open fire sends a large share of its heat into the surrounding air. A centralised steam system contains combustion in an enclosed generator and transfers heat through steam to the cooking vessels. One heat source can serve several cooking points, and indirect heating delivers heat evenly through the vessel walls. More of the energy bought as fuel goes into cooking rather than being lost around the kitchen.
CleanCookIQ is Ignis's digital infrastructure for collecting, validating, analysing and managing institutional clean-cooking transition data. For institutions, it supports a clear, costed transition pathway. For financiers and programme partners, it provides structured information, project economics and performance evidence. For governments, it gives portfolio-level visibility of demand and transition progress.
Understand what you spend, identify a viable transition and move to implementation.
For InstitutionsMap institutional demand, design transition programmes and monitor progress.
For Governments & CountiesAccess structured projects and portfolios with validated data, project economics and performance evidence.
For FinanciersConnect suitable solutions to qualified institutional demand and structured delivery opportunities.
For Technology ProvidersDesign, implement and measure programmes with field-level evidence and clear transition journeys.
For Development PartnersOur work in Kenya is helping us build a practical model for institutional clean-cooking transition: assess real demand, structure projects, connect the right technology and finance, deliver the transition and measure what happens. We are building from Kenyan delivery experience towards a model that can work across African markets.
Our work spans institutional assessments, county and programme development, clean-cooking technology deployment, financing structures and digital infrastructure.
We collaborate with public institutions, counties, development partners, financial institutions, technology providers and sector organisations to move clean-cooking projects from opportunity to implementation.
What happens when the clean-cooking transition meets the realities of an operating kitchen? We publish field observations, fuel data, engineering lessons, financing insights and project stories from the work we do.
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