From street-food vendors to global recognition for eCooking 🏆
We're delighted to celebrate eCooking for Livelihoods: Productive-Use Electric Cooking Transition for India's Micro-Food Enterprises, led by @Finovista which has won the Sector Award at the inaugural Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Sustainable Lifestyles Awards 2026.
Selected through a global process that assessed more than 40 submissions, the award recognises pioneering solutions that advance fair, people-centred clean energy transitions.
The awards were launched by the Clean Energy Ministerial's Sustainable Lifestyles, Fairness and Access to Clean Energy Campaign, a global initiative led by governments including India, Norway, China and the European Commission to accelerate clean energy transitions that work for people as well as the planet.
At Shell Foundation, we've been proud to support Finovista's efforts to demonstrate how electric cooking can strengthen livelihoods for India's micro-food entrepreneurs. Working alongside EESL and other partners, the initiative builds on a pilot with street-food vendors and is now working towards reaching up to 60,000 vendors, with a longer-term ambition to scale much further.
What makes this recognition particularly significant is that it highlights a practical model for delivering clean energy where it can have the greatest impact: helping small businesses reduce operating costs, improve working conditions and grow their incomes, while supporting wider energy transition goals.
Most importantly, the award recognises the street-food vendors who helped prove what is possible, alongside the strength of the partnership and the innovation required to take promising solutions from pilot to scale.
Congratulations to Finovista, EESL and everyone involved in this achievement. 👏
#CleanEnergy #CleanCooking #EnergyAccess #SustainableLifestyles #CEM17
We're delighted to celebrate eCooking for Livelihoods: Productive-Use Electric Cooking Transition for India's Micro-Food Enterprises, led by @Finovista which has won the Sector Award at the inaugural Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Sustainable Lifestyles Awards 2026.
Selected through a global process that assessed more than 40 submissions, the award recognises pioneering solutions that advance fair, people-centred clean energy transitions.
The awards were launched by the Clean Energy Ministerial's Sustainable Lifestyles, Fairness and Access to Clean Energy Campaign, a global initiative led by governments including India, Norway, China and the European Commission to accelerate clean energy transitions that work for people as well as the planet.
At Shell Foundation, we've been proud to support Finovista's efforts to demonstrate how electric cooking can strengthen livelihoods for India's micro-food entrepreneurs. Working alongside EESL and other partners, the initiative builds on a pilot with street-food vendors and is now working towards reaching up to 60,000 vendors, with a longer-term ambition to scale much further.
What makes this recognition particularly significant is that it highlights a practical model for delivering clean energy where it can have the greatest impact: helping small businesses reduce operating costs, improve working conditions and grow their incomes, while supporting wider energy transition goals.
Most importantly, the award recognises the street-food vendors who helped prove what is possible, alongside the strength of the partnership and the innovation required to take promising solutions from pilot to scale.
Congratulations to Finovista, EESL and everyone involved in this achievement. 👏
#CleanEnergy #CleanCooking #EnergyAccess #SustainableLifestyles #CEM17
