Our Operations

All stove production is contracted.   The projects do not maintain buildings, equipment, labor, or inventory.   Currently, the projects only facilitate the placement of the Champion TLUD stove (shown in photo), which was designed by Dr. Paul Anderson, the Founder and Executive Director of Juntos Energy Solutions, NFP.   The stoves are fully fabricated in India for India projects.

The coordination of activities in India is by an Implementation Partner (Sapient/Vertasol) who operationalizes the system of sales and services to the stove users, including the selection and management of the local employees who have at least monthly contact with every stove-using household.   In exchange for these efforts, the Implementation Partner receives contracted compensation from the sales of (donations for) Woodgas Emission Reduction (WER) carbon offsets created exclusively from TLUD stove activities.

All carbon offset procedures (which include secure accounting and verification) are handled by Juntos Energy Solutions for maximum quality and security.   One year of certified usage of a Champion TLUD stove generates four (4) carbon offsets that are registered in CharTrac, promoted through the Woodgas Institute, and offered to donors via the Juntos NFP website.

Juntos Energy Solutions receives funds from three types of sources: donations/grants; loans; and sales of (donations for) carbon offsets.  Our funds are used for several purposes, including the purchase of stoves (from the contracted suppliers) for use in our projects.  Our Implementation Partner (Sapient/Vertasol) conducts subsidized sales of these stoves to households participating in Juntos-owned projects that are separate from but intentionally similar to the successful atmosfair-owned project in Deganga, West Bengal (see www.drtlud.com/deganga2016).  Indeed, the same Implementation Partner, Sapient/Vertasol, is contracted by both entities (atmosfair and Juntos).  Only Juntos, however, utilizes the recently-developed CharTrac data collection and management processes that underpin the Woodgas Emission Reduction (WER) carbon offsets derived from the TLUD stove activity of its project households.

These households of financially poor families are the soul and purpose and engine of the entire business plan, including the impact to control climate change.   They operate these stoves every day and to them flow sustainable benefits of several types.