About SCI's testing process
Responding to requests from cooks, agencies, and manufacturers, SCI created an objective, scientific process to evaluate solar cookers: the Performance Evaluation Process (PEP). SCI objectively and scientifically evaluates how a solar cooker performs. Solar cooks and purchasing agencies around the world need these valuable performance metrics to select the solar cooker that best fits the need.
SCI’s evaluation is:
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Standards-based
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Replicable
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Based on the internationally accepted ASAE S580.1 protocol for Testing and Reporting Solar Cooker Performance
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Included within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) harmonized laboratory test protocols for clean cookstoves and clean cooking solutions
SCI promotes all solar cooker designs that are:
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High-performing and durable
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Proven by testing according to the objective SCI performance evaluation process (PEP)
SCI is a solar cooker testing center recognized by the
Clean Cooking Alliance.
Evaluations are arranged by SCI and conducted at Regional Testing and Knowledge Centers (RTKCs) in Lalitpur, Nepal; New York, USA; California, USA; and Nairobi, Kenya.
Official SCI PEP results
Final report results:
Click on the solar cooker names to see PEP test results.
Click on the SCI Solar Cooking wiki links for additional cooker information.
| Solar Cooker Name | SCI Solar Cooking Wiki Link |
| SunFocus | Sun BD Corporation Wiki link |
| UGLI | Sun BD Corporation Wiki link |
| StarFlower | Solar Chef International Wiki link |
Fully committed to PEP testing, results coming soon (pending testing completion and manufacturer approval):
Heliac
SUNplicity
Haines 1.0