Govt working on incentives to push electric cooking

We are developing some models where affordability is the biggest issue to be tackled, he said.. To reduce dependence on gas as cooking fuel, the government is working on aggregation models to promote electric cooking in kitchens, and is also likely to announce a set of incentives to encourage rural households to switch over...

After the success of Ujjwala Yojana that brought in clean cooking protecting the health of rural women, electric cooking is going to be our new focus, Ajay Tewari, additional secretary, ministry of power, said at an event here on Monday.. The ministry is planning to move from clean cooking to e-cooking but faces the challenge of expensive appliances..

We are developing some models where affordability is the biggest issue to be tackled, he said.. Indias LPG consumption has gone up 83% over the past decade from 15.6 million metric tonne in FY13 to 28.5 MT in FY23, as per data from Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell..

Tewari said the ministry is working on several models where e-chulha or e-kitchen get electricity either from the grid or from the off-grid solar in rural households that may not be able to afford electricity bills due to e-kitchens...

We want to come out with some aggregation model where carbon credits will also get aggregated which will offset some cost of the electricity consumed and EESL are good in aggregation modeling, the joint secretary said.. EESL was instrumental in the success of LED Ujala scheme that helped bring down the cost of LED bulbs from Rs 300-Rs 400 to less than Rs100..

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