Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers

RTKCs also support local producers and manufacturers to improve products, communicate performance to customers, and provide training and other resources to catalyze stoves and fuels activities.

This list includes organizations that are focused on a cookstoves and fuels testing and/or design. Please contact the testing organizations directly about potential collaborations or to find out what testing services they may offer. The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) does not certify testing organizations and provides this list as information for our partners.

To suggest additional organizations to include, please contact CCA at info@cleancooking.org.

A green dot indicates that this testing organization has a Conflict of Interest Policy and/or a Quality Assurance Information/ISO 17025 Certification is available to share upon request.

• Conflict of Interest Policy – Describes an organization’s policies around technology neutrality and providing independent, third-party testing
• Quality Assurance – Describes an organization’s plan for maintaining equipment, calibration, record keeping, and other procedures to ensure high quality, reliable testing

Name	Country	Location	Point of Contact	Email	Conflict of Interest Policy	Quality Assurance
Aprovecho Research Center	United States	Cottage Grove, Oregon	Dean Still	deankstill@gmail.com
Asia Regional Cookstove Program (ARECOP)	Indonesia	Yogyakarta	Christina Aristanti Tjondroputro	christina@arecop.org
Asian Institute of Technology	Thailand	Khlong Nueng	Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh	kimoanh@ait.ac.th
Bangladesh Council for Scientific and Industrial Research	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Mohammad Rouf	roufmd@yahoo.com
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology	Bangladesh	Dhaka	Md Mominur Rahman	mrrahman@che.buet.ac.bd
Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT)	China	Beijing	Guangging Liu	guangging.liu@gmail.com
Berkeley Air Monitoring Group	United States	Berkeley	David Pennise	dpennise@berkeleyair.com
Bureau of Mines and Energy Improved Cooking Technology Program	Haiti	Port au Prince	Jean Robert Altidor	csaaltidor@gmail.com
Burn Design Lab	United States	Vashon Island, Washington	Paul Means	paul@burndesignlab.org
Centre for Integrated Research and Community Development Uganda (CIRCODU)	Uganda	Kampala	Joseph Arineitwe Ndemere	josephndemere@gmail.com
Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC)	Uganda	Kampala	Agnes Naluwagga	analuwaga@creec.or.ug
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal (CRT/N)	Nepal	Kathmandu	Ganesh Ram Shrestha	ganesh@crtnepal.org
Centre for Studies and Research on Renewable Energy Kitsisa Khonde (CERERK)	Congo, Democratic Republic	Kinshasa	Oscar Mulumba	ml_oscar@hotmail.com
China Agricultural University (CAU)	China	Beijing	Yuguang Zhou	zhouyg@cau.edu.cn
Clarkson University	United States	Potsdam, New York	Phillip Hopke	phopke@clarkson.edu
Clean Cookstoves Development and Testing Center	Nigeria	Afikpo	Okechukwu Ugwu	okey@iceednigeria.org
Colorado State University	United States	Fort Collins, Colorado	John Mizia	john.mizia@colostate.edu
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)	Ghana	Accra	Gabriel Nii Laryea	gabniilar@yahoo.com
Dili Institute of Technology (DIT)	Timor-Leste	Dili	Lidio Inacio Freitas	if_lidio@yahoo.com
GERES Biomass Energy Lab (G-BEL)	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Guillaume Monceaux	g.monceaux@geres.eu
GIZ /EnDev Mozambique	Mozambique		Rosario Loayza Cortez	rosario.loayza@giz.de
GIZ Ethiopia	Ethiopia		Alemayehu Zeleke	alemayehu.zeleke@giz.de
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi)	India	New Delhi	Rajendra Prasad	rprasadiitd@gmail.com
Institute of Heating Technology and Industrial Ecology	Mongolia	Ulaanbaatar	B. Jargalsaikhan	jagaa.iteie@gmail.com
Instituto de Investigacion e Innovación en Energías Renovables (UNICACH)	Mexico	Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas	Neín Farrera Vázquez	nein.farrera@unicach.mx
Iowa State University	United States	Ames, Iowa	Mark Bryden	kmbryden@iastate.edu
Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) Stove Testing Centre	Kenya	Nairobi	Nathan Bogonko	nbogonko@gmail.com
Laboratorio de Certificación de Cocinas Mejoradas (SENCICO)	Peru	Lima	Maria Mercedes Vilcapoma Sarmiento	mvilcapoma@sencico.gob.pe
Laboratorios Ministerio de Energia y Minas de Guatemala	Guatemala	Guatemala City	Mayra Villatoro	jefelab@mem.gob.gt
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	United States	Berkeley, California	Ashok Gadgil	gadgil@ce.berkeley.edu
Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology	Tanzania	Arusha	K.N. Njau	karoli.njau@nm-aist.ac.tz
Nyabyeya Forestry College	Uganda	Masindi	Jackson Mutegeki	jmutegeki@gmail.com
Renewable Energy Testing Station	Nepal	Kathmandu	Roshan Parajuli	roshan@retsnepal.org
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation	Congo, Democratic Republic	Kinshasa	Xavier Castellvi	xcastellvi@snvworld.org
Solar Cookers International	United States	Sacramento, California	Julie Greene	info@solarcookers.org
Stove Testing Center	Bolivia	La Paz	Marcelo Gorrity	mgorrity@gmail.com
Sustainable energy Technology and Research Centre (SeTAR)	South Africa	Johannesburg	Harold Annegarn	hannegarn@gmail.com
Technology Consultancy Centre, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)	Ghana	Kumasi	Michael Kweku Commeh	kwekumichael@gmail.com
The Centre for Study and Research on Renewable Energy (CERER)	Senegal	Dakar	Issakha Youm	iyoum2@yahoo.fr
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)	India	New Delhi	Perumal Raman	praman@teri.res.in
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency	United States	Research Triangle Park, North Carolina	Jim Jetter	jetter.jim@epa.gov
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, (UNAM), Laboratorio de Estufas Mejoradas (LEM-CiEco)	Mexico	Morelia, Michoacan	Victor Ruiz	victor_ruizgarcia@yahoo.com
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	United States	Urbana Champaign, illinois	Tami Bond	yark@illinois.edu
University of Nairobi	Kenya	Nairobi	Jacob Kithinji Peters	jacobkithinji@yahoo.com
University of Nigeria	Nigeria	Nsukka	Cosmos Anyanwu	cnasofia@gmail.com
University of the Philippines Diliman	Philippines	Quezon City	Mylene G. Cayetano	mbgonzaga@gmail.com
University of Washington Clean Cookstoves Lab	United States	Seattle, Washington	Jonathan Posner	jposner@uw.edu
Zamorano University Improved Stove Certification Center	Honduras	Tegucigalpa	Victoria Alejandra Cortes Matamoros	vcortes@zamorano.edu