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3 June 2025: Robert Van Buskirk visits MECS at University of Loughborough to give them an update on the latest solar cooker efforts: Bridging the Affordabilty Gap: Enabling Rural Malawian Ownership of Off-Grid Solar-Electric Cooking Systems.

3-7 June 2025: .Affordable Solar for Villagers displays the solar cookers, pumps, 12V battery and lights at the Renewable Energy Industries Association of Malawi (REAMA) exhibit at Chichiri Mall in Blantyre. Fortuitously the Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA) was in the next booth, so we also made good connections with them.

17 May 2025: The 20 ft shipping container holding 400 pumps, 400 hoses, spare parts to repair 1,000 pumps, along with many voltage converters for the cookers, and repair parts for the solar cargo trikes.

27 November 2024: Robert Van Buskirk and Skyler Selvin give a terrific webinar about the Forever Battery / Batire Lokhalitsa organized by their allies at Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS): Making a 10-Year Lifetime Solar eCooking Battery for Rural Africa