Tanzania, Aug. 11 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's drive to shift households and institutions towards electric cooking has reached 14 million people, as the government and development partners push to make the technology more affordable, reliable and accessible.

The milestone was announced by the UK-supported Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) eCooking Scale and Support Programme, which has also helped 36 schools adopt electric cooking technologies and trained 460 technicians to support the emerging clean cooking market.

The programme has expanded awareness of electric cooking, improved access to financing and increased the availability of cooking technologies across mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar.

The progress comes as Tanzania impleme...