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The Kitchen Electrification Group (KEG) is a free forum for program administrators and electric cooking stakeholders to share information and collaborate on joint efforts to accelerate kitchen electrification.

This Resource Directory is intended to serve as a comprehensive, updated archive of the most useful kitchen electrification information -  programs, research, best practices, technical specifications and related legislation.

To add your resources to the directory, please email them to the KEG Work Group. This is a work in progress, so please share any other resources you're aware of.

The BDC “Going Induction Guide” - An FAQ for those Ready to Go Induction.

Last updated: December 10, 2020

Incentive Programs​

Resources from kitchen electrification incentive programs administered by city, state, and utilities. 

Stove Rebates​
  • Sacramento Municipal Utility District - $100 to replace electric stove with induction stove, $750 to replace gas stove with induction cooktop through the end of 2020
  • BayREN Home - $300 induction cooktop range rebate
  • Marin County - $250 to replace cooktop, $500 to replace cooktop stove and oven
  • Silicon Valley Clean Energy - $50 off induction cooktop at the SV Clean Energy Appliances Assistant, incentive includes portable induction cooktops
  • ​East Bay Community Energy -  $300 for an induction cooktop range when you replace an existing gas appliance
  • Central Coast Community Energy all-electric new construction grant programs.
  • Sonoma Clean Power all-electric new construction grant programs. ​

Induction Stove Lending Programs
  • City of San Jose - No-cost induction stove lending program for two-week term
  • City of Palo Alto 
  • Sonoma Clean Power - No-cost induction stove lending program for two-week term
  • Sacramento Public Library
  • Black Gold Cooperative Library System on California's Central Coast
  • Southern California Edison
  • East Bay Community Energy
  • Acterra

Technical Manuals

​Technical manuals and specs for induction stoves and electrical infrastructure
  • LG Induction Cooktop Service Manual
  • General Electric Monogram Induction Cooktop Service Manual
  • Bosch 800 Series Induction Cooktop Users Manual
  • Cuisinart Double Induction Cooktop Users Manual

Research

The latest research on kitchen electrification program design, health impacts and other topics, as well as survey materials.
  • Effects of Residential Gas Appliances on Indoor and Outdoor Air Quality and Public Health in California (UCLA)​
  • Induction Cooking Survey Sample
  • Induction Loaner Survey Sample Results - Results of a Building Decarbonization Coalition on familiarity with induction cooktops
  • Report on Induction Stoves and Electromagnetic Fields Safety Testing 
  • Cooking Emissions Study - Harvard University
  • Redwood Energy Comparative Energy Use for Cooktops


Media Toolbox

Examples of text, graphics and other content for media outreach campaigns
  • SF Environment Induction Cooking Factsheet​
  • Southern California Edison Induction Cooking Factsheet
  • City of Berkeley/Ecology Center Induction Cooking Factsheet​
  • The BDC “Going Induction Guide” - An FAQ for those Ready to Go Induction.
  • Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SCVE) - The Basics – Induction Cooktops

Legislation and Legal Documents

Resources around policy solutions to support kitchen electrification.
  • COMPASS: A BDC repository of California reach codes, municipal ordinances and legal cases that regulate kitchen electrification 
  • Sonoma Clean Power Induction Cooktop Waiver and Indemnification Agreement

Consumer Materials

  • Yale Appliances - Induction Cooktop Buyers Guide
  • Consumer Reports - Best Induction Cooktops of 2020

Videos

Informational videos:
  • Yale Appliances - How do you buy an induction cooktop?
  • Yale Appliances - Best Electric and Induction Ranges
  • Design Appliances - Introduction to induction cooktops
  • Vollrath - About Induction Technology and Induction Cooking/Educational Video
  • PG&E On-Demand Induction Trainings: Commercial Induction Class and Residential Induction Class
Renowned chefs using induction cooktops:
  • Watch Reem Asil cook Shakshuka in Sunset Magazine, a production done in coordination with East Bay Community Energy
  • Chefs Rick Bayless, Ming Tsai, and Fabio Viviani are featured on Reviewed.com - Professional Chefs Love Cooking with Induction Stoves
  • Chef Rachelle Boucher demonstrates how she cooks with induction stovetops.
  • Chef Curtis Stone, New York Times best-selling author and chef-owner of Maude in Beverly Hills, cooks with an induction stove.
  • Chef David Wei cooks a traditional Chinese dishes on induction.
  • Executive Chef Tagere Southwell of Fisher & Paykel discussing the benefits of induction, while wok frying a dish.
  • Australian Chef Neil Perry promotes his own line of induction stoves, while cooking a fish dinner.
  • Vancouver Chef Angus An cooks with induction as part of a Vollrath induction promotional video.
  • Johnson & Wales Chef and Instructor Peter Cooper discusses induction benefits alongside a Wolfgang Induction cooktop model.
  • Corporate and TV Chef Anthony Marino cooks meatballs on a Bosch inductions stove.​
Excerpted quotes from celebrity chefs:
  • Chef Curtis Stone: “As a chef we’ve used induction in restaurants for a long time. It’s because you get such a precise result. You’re in total control, as the cook you can really dictate where the heat is at when you’re cooking… it works so so well, the cleanup is a breeze and it’s also more energy efficient, which is a big bonus”.
  • Chef Thierry Molinengo: “Powerful, immediate, precise, effective, practical – here in a few words are the qualities of induction”.
  • Chef Neil Perry: “They’re far easier to clean down after use, which is one of the main reasons we chose induction over gas. It’s much faster to cook with induction: you can increase or drop the temperature far more quickly, which is a more efficient use of energy. Cutting energy use, when you don’t need it, makes a huge difference in a commercial kitchen.”
  • Chef Ming Tsai: “It’s so much safer. I have kids, right, and you can literally touch everything around it [the cooking area on the cooktop].”

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