{"id":67989,"date":"2023-06-17T17:42:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=67989"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:29:39","slug":"powerstove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/powerstove\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerStove : Generating Electricity and Saving Lives through Clean Cookstove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">3 years ago, I visited <em>Cross River State<\/em>, in <em>Nigeria<\/em> and when I saw deforestation in<em> Owai<\/em> and 7 other <\/span>neighbouring<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> communities I got on my knees and wept. At <em>Owai<\/em>, I stood and watch the night Ekatteh died, it rained endlessly. Her sullen eyes \u2013 scarlet and dilated- shut in with a hot, almost steamy tear, as she let out her final cough which also would be her last breath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Ekatteh<\/em> had battled myocardial ischemia for 7 years \u2013 a heart disease she contracted from her many years of inhaling smoke from cooking with firewood. She worked as a village food vendor to ensure her three children live and get <\/span>education<span style=\"color: #000000;\">, something she did not afford herself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This story is one of the several million stories of women all over Africa, whose lives have been severely threatened by the harmful consequences of unknowingly inhaling smoke that comes from cooking with charcoal, wood, and dung. I told myself that I will devote my entire life to provide a solution to the problem. When I came back from the journey, I shared my vision with close friends and business partners for over 6 years and they agreed to join the vision and build the product and the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Link to online video\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"boombox-responsive-embed \"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Z Powerstove Development\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XDMuyfsMqqU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your products and services\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Powerstove<\/strong><\/span> is an ultra-clean cook stove that burns 70% less <\/span>biomass, saves<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> lives, <\/span>generate<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> electricity, <\/span>improve<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> livelihoods, <\/span>empower<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> women, and <\/span>preserve<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your success factors\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Locally design and manufactured<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burns any biomass cleanly without smoke<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Cooks 2 liters of water in less than 5 minutes<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Light weight<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saves 70% on biomass used<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Save 70cents each day it\u2019s been used that is around $250\/year<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Generate and supply off-grid electricity to charge mobile phone, power banks, laptop and LED Bulbs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Costs less than imported clean <\/span>cookstoves<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Creates sustainable job opportunities for women who assembles and markets the product<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saves <\/span>lives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Generates up to 100Watts of electricity from biomass waste energy in the burning chamber<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Burns any biomass (charcoal, sticks, twigs, dry corn cobs, dry grass) cleanly without smoke.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A biomass stove that burns like LPG Gas stove<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A biomass stove with flame\/fire regulator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A biomass stove that supplies electricity up to 2hours (depending on usage) even after cooking.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A water resistant-biomass pellets made from agricultural waste that costs less than charcoal per kilo<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your business model\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0We make money in the following 5 ways:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sales of <\/span>Powerstove<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> at US$59.9 Retail Price with a 41% Profit Margin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sales of Biomass Pellets at 70cents per kilo with 80% Profit Margin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sales of Accessories at US$1.5 Average Price Per Unit and 15% Profit Margin<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">US$2 Service charge per stove for after sales support from Friendship Centers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pay-As-You-Use Revenue Model for <\/span>creditworthy<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Women Cooperatives<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A few words about your competitors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Competition is quite funny, families in Nigeria can have a locally made stove or an imported expensive, inefficient stove from China. And these are the two options and part of the reason why they badly need our cooking stove. Our stove is more efficient, more affordable, generates electricity, burns sticks, twigs, agricultural wastes and biomass pellets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your website\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">http:\/\/powerstove.com.ng\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 years ago, I visited Cross River State, in Nigeria and when I saw deforestation in Owai and 7 other neighbouring communities I got on my knees and wept. At Owai, I stood and watch the night Ekatteh died, it rained endlessly. 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