Okey Esse is the founder of Powerstove, a clean-energy advocate and focused company that designs, manufactures and distributes smokeless cookstoves that use 70% less biomass to cook food while generating 50 watts of electricity for the user’s household.
The Company also produces Goodlife Pellets, a Premium Refuse-Derived Fuel which costs 60% lower than firewood and 80% cheaper than charcoal and cook food twice longer than any available biomass fuel. Powerstove is the first clean cookstove to be fitted with IoT cloud-based remote system to monitor in real-time a single day of cooking, the amount of CO2 and biomass saved, Black Carbon prevented and total electricity generated.
Okey has gone on to win several awards since completing the TEF Programme including the 2019 TEF Founder’s Den.