Cookstove prize partnership press release

August 30, 2010 (PLAYA VISTA, CA) - The X PRIZE Foundation, an
educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with
prizes of up to $30 million, the Government of India's Ministry of New
and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

have formed a partnership to create a global competition to develop and
deploy clean and efficient cookstoves. The competition will focus on the

development of affordable and clean-burning cookstove technologies (and
possibly delivery models) and is a part of the MNRE's National Biomass
Cookstoves Initiative, which was launched in December 2009. Details of
the competition, including the announcement of the launch date, prize
purse and competition guidelines are forthcoming.

Find more details online at:
http://www.hedon.info/1931/news.htm

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