3rd Place Winner - 2023 Customer Awards: 180.works + Notilyze - Community Uplift Award

[PaulKoot]

Company: 180.works + Notilyze

Company background: In summary: New cookstoves of 180.works contribute to an enormous decrease in emissions worldwide, given a total addressable market of 750 million households. Current old cooking methods are causing at least 20% of global CO2 emissions. By involving SAS and Notilyze we make this reduction transparent and counteract greenwashing. It will both serves industry, developing countries and nature. At 180.works, we are driven by our mission to create a global impact, tackling the urgent challenges of deforestation and climate change head-on. How do we do this? We protect forest by installing cookstoves. These cookstoves replace old cooking methods, resulting into a 70% reduction in wood usage. Through the power of advanced data science and technology, we have developed an innovative solution that leverages local engagement and expertise. By collecting real-time sensor data we can give insight into the actual CO2 emissions that are reduced, resulting into a big contribution towards transparent and accountable carbon credit system. Notilyze, our esteemed Dutch SAS Partner, is dedicated to helping organizations unlock their full potential through data analytics. With a singular goal of enabling data-driven success, Notilyze delivers tailored solutions that fuel growth and informed decision-making. Their expertise and innovative strategies, combined with our commitment to sustainable solutions, form a powerful alliance that drives positive change and long-term success for our clients.

Contact: Paul Koot

Title: Data Scientist

Country: The Netherlands

Award Category: Community Uplift Award

Tell how you've used SAS to have a positive impact on your community?
We've leveraged SAS to quantify the reduction in carbon emissions from cookstoves in Malawi, Africa. Collecting, processing, and visualizing sensor data on the ground, our innovative approach has achieved three key outcomes:
1. a 70% decrease in CO2 emissions from cooking,
2. real-time accountability in the carbon credits market through data,
3. and reinvestment of earned carbon credit funds into the community

A transformative full-circle solution for both the environment and the local community.

What SAS products are you using and how are you using them?

We utilize SAS Studio for data collection, transformation, and integration of a scientifically tested algorithm that converts temperature time series into cookstove usage time windows. SAS Visual Analytics empowers us to visualize insightful results through interactive dashboards. As we scale up our operations, we're testing the use of SAS Event Stream Processing to efficiently handle the increasing number of sensors and data streams.

What was your most surprising discovery about your work?

Our most surprising discovery is the fact that we are capable of locating a cookstove, assessing its usage over time on a detailed, hourly level and how much forest is conserved as a result. Additionally, we uncovered key global insights: old cooking methods contribute to more than 20% of global CO2 emissions, while locally sourced materials and simple cookstove assembly allow us to reach impressive targets of 300,000 cookstoves installed by 2023 and the potential of 10 million cookstoves by 2030, saving 70 million trees annually. Given the current cooking practices, the world needs 750 million cookstoves, highlighting the additional impact we can generate after 2030. With the SAS Viya 4 platform we can create a robust, scalable product that is transparent towards who touches this data, while at the same time ensuring data privacy.

For some more information about 180.works and a video on how we install cookstoves, see:
https://180.works/#/carbon-offset