The African Clean Energy ACE-1 is an integrated home energy system designed to help save millions of lives and curb deforestation in the developing world. SDG ACE Foundation helps the poorest to access this life-changing technology.
What inspired you to make this project?:
Our family, based in Lesotho, was inspired by the vision of a world without the scourge of open fire cooking. In 2011, we noticed the need for a smokeless cookstove to solve some of the world's most pressing problems affecting the world's poorest people.
Ruben grew up in the Netherlands and China, before earning a degree in environmental engineering in Australia. Ruben spent 4 years at mobile tech startup IceMobile in Amsterdam, founded a bamboo flooring start-up, and in 2011 founded ACE.
