Case Study: ADES (Association for the Development of Solar Energy) reduces deforestation and household fuel costs with Alibre Design

ADES - Customer Case Study

ADES (Association pour le Développement de l’Energie Solaire) in Madagascar is tackling severe deforestation driven by household cooking: 97% of families use wood or charcoal and roughly 120,000 hectares of forest are cut each year. To reduce fuel demand, train communities, and support reforestation (targeting 45,000 trees per year), ADES partnered with Alibre and used donated Alibre Design CAD licenses to develop efficient solar cooking solutions.

Using Alibre Design, ADES’ team designed three cookers (two fully solar and one more efficient wood/charcoal stove), including a modular Parabol household model used widely in schools. Alibre enabled precise parabolic geometry, accurate mass calculations for production, reduced materials costs, faster prototyping and clearer 3D collaboration, which helps households cook up to 11 months a year, cut fuel expenses, improve sanitation and scale school kitchens as ADES advances its education and reforestation goals.

ADES

Dagobert Frobel

Co-Director