Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guides are catalogues of best-in-class appliances and productive use equipment appropriate for use in energy-constrained settings. This edition contains information about induction cooktops named winners and finalists in the 2024-2025 Global LEAP Awards Induction Cooktops Competition.

Nearly 2.3 billion people around the world still rely on polluting fuels, such as firewood, charcoal, and kerosene, for daily cooking. This dependence has far-reaching impacts on public health, the environment, and social and economic inequalities. Modern, energy-efficient electric cooking appliances like induction cooktops offer a powerful alternative.

The 2024–2025 Induction Cooktop Competition builds on growing efforts to expand access to high-quality eCooking solutions. This Buyer’s Guide features the competition’s winners and finalists and highlights top-performing products designed for off- and weak-grid communities. It is a practical resource for market stakeholders, including investors, funders, distributors, and other commercial actors. It provides detailed product specifications, performance metrics, and sales contact information.

The 2024–2025 Induction Cooktops Competition was administered by CLASP and funded by the IKEA Foundation and UK aid from the UK government via the Transforming Energy Access platform.

Read the ‘2025 Buyer’s Guide for Induction Cooktops’ to learn more.

About the Global Leap Awards

The Global LEAP Awards—an initiative of the Efficiency for Access coalition—is an international competition that identifies and promotes the world’s best, most energy-efficient appliances and equipment intended for use in energy-constrained settings.

CLASP has estimated the potential CO₂ savings from a progressive EU phase-out of gas hobs from the market from 2025 to 2029. This scenario represents the effect of an energy label that compares hobs starting in 2025, followed by the implementation of Ecodesign efficiency requirements in 2029, which gas hobs would not be able to meet.

The policy options and scenarios proposed in the 2022 JRC study only consider incremental improvements of each technology (i.e., gas hobs, radiant and induction, with an exemption of hotplates). With this analysis, CLASP wanted to put forward the CO₂ emission reduction potential of shifting from gas to electric hobs.

The Global LEAP Awards is an international competition to identify and promote the world’s best off-grid appliances. The 2016-17 round of competitions identified super-efficient, high quality off-grid flat-panel televisions. By providing the off-grid marketplace clear and actionable signals about the quality and energy performance of off-grid appliances, the Global LEAP Awards accelerate global for off-grid appliance and clean energy system market. This resource provides an overview of the Off-Grid Television Competition.

The Global LEAP Awards is an international competition to identify and promote the world’s best off-grid appliances, accelerating market development and innovation. The 2016-17 Global LEAP Awards included a competition to identify super-efficient, high-quality, and innovative off-grid refrigerators for the first time.

By providing the off-grid marketplace clear and actionable signals about the quality and energy performance of off-grid appliances, the Global LEAP Awards support the global off-grid appliance and clean energy system marketplace. The resource below gives an overview of the 2016-17 Global LEAP Award Off-Grid Refrigerator Competition.

The Global LEAP Awards is an international competition to identify and promote the world’s best off-grid appliances. The 2016-17 round of competitions will identify super-efficient, high quality off-grid fans. By providing the off-grid marketplace clear and actionable signals about the quality and energy performance of off-grid appliances, the Global LEAP Awards accelerate global for off-grid appliance and clean energy system market.The resource below provides an overview of the 2016-17 Global LEAP Awards Off-Grid Fan Competition.

This fact sheet discusses the benefits of energy efficient motors.

The Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP™) Outstanding Off-Grid Appliance Awards Competition (Global LEAP Awards™) seeks to transform the global market for off-grid television products by recognizing and rewarding the most energy-efficient, highest quality off-grid appliances. As a Clean Energy Ministerial initiative, Global LEAP seeks to advance global clean energy access policy goals by harnessing the power of marketplace competition to drive technical and market innovations in the off-grid appliance sector.

The fact sheet below provides a succinct overview of the 2015-2016 Global LEAP Awards Off-Grid Television Competition.

The Global LEAP Awards is an international competition to identify and promote the world’s best off-grid appliances. The 2015-2016 round of competitions will identify super-efficient, high quality off-grid fans. By providing the off-grid marketplace clear and actionable signals about the quality and energy performance of off-grid appliances, the Global LEAP Awards accelerate global for off-grid appliance and clean energy system market. The resource below provides more information about the 2015-16 Global LEAP Off-Grid Fan Competition.

Comparing energy performance requirements for appliances from country to country is difficult because of variations in product definitions, misaligned energy test procedures, and divergent efficiency metrics. This complex landscape can prevent policymakers from identifying or adopting global best practices in appliance energy efficiency policy.

To address this challenge, CLASP and the Policy Partners, along with many other technical product experts, collected data to compare appliance energy efficiency policies, test methods, and efficiency metrics for more than 100 products across nine economies—Australia, China, the European Union, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, and the United States.

The resulting analysis represents the largest and most comprehensive comparison of energy standards and labels ever compiled. It describes which product policies are comparable across economies; which are not; and which could be. It is intended to provide policymakers and experts with useful tools for analyzing country data at a macro-level and to enable more informed decisions about the most appropriate policies.

The results are presented in several components:

• The Policymakers’ Summary provides an overview of the analysis.
• The webinar provides additional insights from the report authors.
• The full report, Improving Global Comparability of Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards and Labels, contains the background, methodology, and high-level product specific information.
• Annex 1: Overview Table (Microsoft Excel file) contains quantitative information for all products.
• Annex 2: Product Fact Sheets contains additional product-by-product detail.