The EEP funded project has now come to an end and we move into a period of report-writing finalizing the project towards EEP.

Home Energy will continue to sell stoves and pellets as there is a demand for the stove and pellets.

Our station manager in Lusaka, Magdalene Musaba, takes part in stove production.

In April we have established stove production in Lusaka, using disabled persons on the assembly line.

Sale of Peko Pe cookstove at Chawama grounds.

As part of reaching out, we have in February placed staff at gathering places in the Chawama compound, Lusaka. Here at Chawama market Anipher and Christine effectively reach household members for sale of pellets and cookstoves

We sell pellets in water proof bags, to keep the pellets dry for use in the cookstove.

We are part of the process that makes Zambia move away from unsustainable use of charcoal and the inefficient Mbaula stove.

We are selling Peko Pe with various steel grades and surface finish; stainless steel, shiny surface on the left, stainless steel matte surface and mild steel painted black.

The Chawama, Misisi sales outlet in Lusaka is up and running with staff.

The Chamboli sales outlet in Kitwe is up and running with staff.

We have completed the first round of tinsmith training. Two tinsmiths passed the test and are now qualified for Peko Pe stove production.

Other tinsmith training courses will be held in the forthcoming months in Kamfinsa and Lusaka.

Today, the last finishing touches was made on the shed for the pelletizer.

The pelletizer is now safely placed under a roof for protection during the rainy season.

The roof is now on the shed and we have produced more pellets.

With the pelletizer now on the grounds at the site of Rainlands Timber, we see a heightened interest in what we are doing. Several potential partners have approached us on pellets and stoves.

We are building a shed for the pelletizer.

As part of scheduled activities in the ongoing Home Energy project financed by EEP, a shed is built for the recently acquired pelletizer. Personnel from Rainlands Timber is used in this process with Nick O'Connor overseeing the construction.

Early production runs have progressed according to plans and bags with pellets can be seen in the foreground.

The pelletizer was commissioned today. It is a milestone for Home Energy, which is now able to offer pellets to stove users as renewable stove fuel and offer pellets to the industry as a replacement of fossil energy or charcoal.

In the hand of Nick O'Connor, the first two pellets produced from the pelletizer. As part of the commissioning of the pelletizer, a first-run production was undertaken. The pellets produced were of good quality and the production unit was accepted by Home Energy.

Home Energy produce pellets from waste sawdust and other waste biomass resources. The sawdust is a waste product from the sawmill process at Rainlands Timber.

Today sawdust and other waste biomass resources, such as corncobs, are not optimally utilized. Converted to pellets, these resources may find a good use as a cookstove fuel and for energy use in the industry

Home Energy demonstrated the Peko Pe and Sawduster cookstoves at the recent Ndola Trade Fair.

The pelletizer arrived today after a long journey from Sweden. A journey that started in late January.
We are of course excited to finally have the pelletizer on site and eager to start pelletizing.

The Zambian joint venture company, Home Energy Ltd., was registered today.

Home Energy Ltd is a joint-venture, owned equally between the Zambian company Ensis Development Ltd and the Norwegian company Miombo AS.

It is a collaboration that started back in 2011, when Miombo was contracted to do stove pilot project in Zambia by the Norwegian research institution, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.

Home Energy will in the near future act as the legal entity for activities related to the on-going project: "Value chain of innovative stoves and waste biomass - linked to prisons, tinsmiths, sawmills and town councils in Zambia." and in the future take on a similar role in a projected expansion phase.

The organization Energy and Environment Partnership Southern & Eastern Africa (EEP) awarded today the companies Ensis Development Ltd. and Miombo AS a total Euro 200 000 for the project: "Value chain of innovative stoves and waste biomass - linked to prisons, tinsmiths, sawmills and town councils in Zambia."

The projecy seeks to find alternatives to inefficient production and use of charcoal.

The project works under the guiding vision of First a charcoal free Kitwe -- and with time a charcoal free Zambia.

The project seeks the introduction of pellets as cookstove fuel and pellets as bioenergy in the industry as well the introduction of new improved cleanburning cookstoves with households in Kitwe and Lusaka.