Toyola Energy

A company that manufactures and distributes efficient charcoal cookstoves across Ghana and neighbouring West African countries, sold on a pay-as-you-go model, with stoves produced and assembled locally. By March 2011 it had sold 154,000 stoves, cutting greenhouse gas emissions by about 200,000 tonnes a year, and its production and assembly work employed around 172 people in 2010. It won an Ashden Award in 2011, and the hub's earlier entry recorded its stoves under the Gold Standard, registered in 2009.