Welcome to the Maasai Stoves & Solar Project of the ICSEE. 

Your interest  means a lot to us. Learn more about the people and work of our Project at our website.  View an eight-minute video by Philip Lange.   

The Maasai Stoves & Solar Project designs and installs smoke-removing and efficient wood-burning chimney stoves and solar panel-based electrical systems in the homes of the people. We also install settlement-wide solar panel-based micro-grid electrical systems for shared power. We focus on local solutions, manufacturing right in the area, stimulating the economy and empowering the people.

With the new training, each boma can handle its own repairs

Although our boma micro-grid electrification system is relatively simple, members of the community have difficulty diagnosing and solving issues when they arise, because most of the people have not had the opportunity to learn about energy and electricity in school.  

As we scale up boma electrification, one of our tasks is to continually use engineering to bring down costs while increasing service.  To strengthen his leadership in meeting engineering challenges, Project Manager Kisioki Moitiko is quickly absorbing online courses from the Solar Energy Institute in Colorado, and will be visiting Colorado in October to attend an intensive week-long laboratory-based course.

With this preparation, Kisioki will take charge of mounting our new education program. He will start with teaching a ten-day class of our design for representatives from each electrified boma. These representatives will then become the electricity fundi for that settlement, assessing and solving issues as they arise. 

We thank the National Academy of Sciences and USAID Power Africa for supplementing our electrification grant making it possible for Kisioki to make the trip.