Renewable energy technologies for domestic cooking in India : Estimation of CO2 emissions mitigation potential

The potential for CO₂ emissions mitigation using three renewable energy technologies (biogas plants, improved biomass cookstoves and box type solar cookers) for domestic cooking in India has been estimated. The use of renewable energy technologies for domestic cooking has the potential for saving over 550 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually. The costs of reducing CO₂ emissions by the three options have also been estimated. Using the data available in the literature and the simple frameworks presented in this paper, results of some typical calculations are presented and discussed.