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Association pour le Développement de l'Energie Solaire (ADES) is a Swiss NGO that produces solar cookers in Madagascar and supports the use of renewable energy sources. It started in Tuléar in the south of Madagascar in 2001. Local production by local people with local material is part of the ADES philosophy. Cookers built and solar at subsidized prices now number in the thousands.
ADES has three center in Madagascar (Tulear, Morondava, Ejeda) and an offshoot in Andavadoka (near Morombeé) where they construct and do outreach in solar cooking. In 2008, they sold 1,500 solar ovens. Manufacturing is well organized, but promotion is tougher as it takes a lot of training to get the women to give up their traditional fire for cooking. ADES is in the process of developing various programs such as "women teaching women" and environmental education in the schools.
News and recent developments
Solar cookers are built in local workshops...
...sold in local markets...
...and carried home by happy customers.
- July 2008: Un four solaire ADES sauve 22 tonnes de bois - Madagascar Tribune
- June 2008: TRITEC finances the 1st Solar Village in Madagascar - PresseBox
- October 2007: Swiss Solar Award 2007 goes to ADES. In recognition of the achieved results, ADES is being awarded the Swiss Solar Award 2007 in the category Persons/Institutions. Furthermore, ADES is nominated for the European Solar Award. This is a great honor and recognition for us. For further information see Press Releases in German and in French.
- March 2007: Regula Ochsner, president of ADES, has been aewarded the international "Women of the Earth Award" by the Yves Rocher Foundation. The award ceremony took place on March 8 2007 at the Institute of France in Paris and was attended by French Minister for the Environment, Nelly Olin, Jacques Rocher, Director of the Yves Rocher Foundation for the environment and Gabriel de Broglie, Chancellor of the Institute of France. Ochsner plans to invest the prize money of €10,000 in a further solar cooker pilot project in the south of Madagascar.
See also
- December 2008: Photographs of the ADES projects
- March 2008: Descriptif du projet -
- 2006: Madgascar Solar Cooker Project report
- Heinz Vetter
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External links
- 2007: Annual Report
Contact
Regula Ochsner
Co-President ADES
Lanzenstr. 18
8913 Ottenbach
Switzerland
Tel. 0041/(0)44 761 20 61