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New Report Stresses the Need for Responsibly Designed End-User Subsidies

New Report Stresses the Need for Responsibly Designed End-User Subsidies

16 September 2024

A new report, Designing Responsible End-User Subsidies for Energy Access: A toolkit featuring case studies for the design of subsidies in off-grid solar and clean cooking, was just released. Produced ...Read More

Lighting Global at Zambia’s Decentralized Renewable Energy Days Conference

Lighting Global at Zambia’s Decentralized Renewable Energy Days Conference

13 April 2024

On April 11-12, 2024, Lighting Global’s REACH partnership provided support to Zambia’s Decentralized Renewable Energy Days conference in Lusaka. The conference was opened by the Minister of Livestock and Fisheries, ...Read More

End User Subsidy Lab Webinar Series 

End User Subsidy Lab Webinar Series 

16 November 2023

While hundreds of millions of lives have been energized by off-grid solar, hundreds of millions more are in danger of being left behind. Pro-poor end-user subsidies can make off-grid solar ...Read More

Lighting Global Discusses ROGEAP at ECOWAS’ Sustainable Energy Forum

Lighting Global Discusses ROGEAP at ECOWAS’ Sustainable Energy Forum

17 October 2023

ESMAP’s Lighting Global Program Manager, Raihan Elahi, spoke at ECOWAS’ Sustainable Energy Forum 2023 held in Praia, Cabo Verde on October 13 and 14, 2023, about access to finance in ...Read More

Blog | (Em)powering Women and Their Communities: The Off-Grid Solar Service-Based Model

Blog | (Em)powering Women and Their Communities: The Off-Grid Solar Service-Based Model

08 March 2023

by Raihan Elahi, Jennifer Lynch, and Andrea Arricale The Key Role of Electricity in Healthcare  When Mwanakombo Kassim was in labour, she went to her local health facility. At 11 o’clock ...Read More

New Report | Off-grid solar expected to electrify 624 million people by 2030 but ‘game changers’ are needed to achieve universal access goals

New Report | Off-grid solar expected to electrify 624 million people by 2030 but ‘game changers’ are needed to achieve universal access goals

18 October 2022

18 October, Kigali: Released today at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo in Rwanda, the second part of the Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022, ‘Outlook’, published by the World Bank’s Lighting ...Read More

70 Million People Gained Energy via Off-Grid Solar Despite COVID – New Report Shows

70 Million People Gained Energy via Off-Grid Solar Despite COVID – New Report Shows

07 October 2022

Amsterdam/Washington DC, 7 October 2022 A new report shows that the off-grid solar industry continues to grow, with 70 million more people having gained access to electricity through off-grid solar ...Read More

Sneak Peek | A look at the findings of the up-coming Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022 ‘State of the Sector’

Sneak Peek | A look at the findings of the up-coming Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022 ‘State of the Sector’

14 September 2022

Lighting Global/ESMAP, International Finance Corporation, Efficiency for Access Coalition, GOGLA, and Open Capital Advisors are pleased to invite you to a sneak peek to discuss the findings of the upcoming ...Read More

Learn how to better design and apply end-user subsidies through our series of case studies

Learn how to better design and apply end-user subsidies through our series of case studies

04 August 2022

Following our webinars on the experiences of implementing demand-side subsidies in Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda and Togo; the End-User Subsidy Lab is pleased to share in-depth case studies on these programs through our resources ...Read More

Lighting Global Quality Standards Published in Chinese

Lighting Global Quality Standards Published in Chinese

19 July 2022

The Chinese-language version of the Lighting Global Quality Standards for off-grid solar pico products and plug-and-play solar home system kits, adopted by the International Electronics Commission (IEC) as Standards 62257-9-8 ...Read More

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