Latest Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report Reveals USD 922 Million Has Been Raised Since 2012, While an Estimated 130 million Products Have Been Sold to Date, Reaching 360 Million People with Life-Changing Technology
A new report released by the World Bank Group’s Lighting Global Program, Dalberg Advisors and GOGLA finds that the global off-grid solar industry has taken a leap in the past ...Read More
As New Report Estimates the Off-Grid Solar Market has Provided Improved Energy Access to 360 Million People Globally, Sector Leaders Gather in Hong Kong to Chart the Future of the Industry
Hong Kong/Utrecht/Washington DC Monday, 22 January 2018—Today marks the start of the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo, a three-day event held biennially where 600+ key industry stakeholders are gathering ...Read More
Quality Assurance Update: Earning Your Continued Trust
Trust is fundamental to the Lighting Global Quality Assurance Program, which aims to help purchasers and other market actors identify products that will meet or exceed consumers’ expectations for quality. ...Read More
IFC’s Lighting Pakistan and Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Offer Affordable Solar Lighting Solutions
(left to right) Nawab Ali Khan, Chief Executive Officer of AKAH, and Marco Indelicato, Program Manager for IFC Lighting Pakistan ISLAMABAD: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is ...Read More
Quality Assurance Update: Protecting Consumers Through Standards
Despite many recent successes in advancing national markets for quality-assured off-grid solar products, low-quality products continue to flood markets around the world. In response, many more governments are turning to ...Read More
New Technical Note on USB Smartphone and Battery Charging
Designing a USB port to charge the many cell phones, smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices commonly in use today is a difficult technical challenge. If not properly configured, a ...Read More
Sierra Leone to benefit from US$200 million electrification project
Sierra Leone is among nineteen countries in West Africa that will benefit from a regional off-grid electrification project that will provide beneficiary countries with needed support to foster a sustainable ...Read More
A Quality Assurance Framework for Solar System Installations at Public Facilities in West Africa
Courtesy of Schatz Energy Resource Center. By Meg Harper The Schatz Center and the ECOWAS Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ECREEE), with support from the World Bank through ...Read More
Putting “Last-Mile” Consumers First in Kenya
When her neighbor’s house burned down in a kerosene lamp accident, Risper Onyong’e understood that she had to find an alternative source of lighting. Married with one child, this rice ...Read More
By Plugging in Africa, Mobisol Connects a Continent to Change
Jacinta Auma used to stock kerosene lamps, flashlights, and candles to light her home in rural Kenya, but that changed when solar panels were installed on her roof. Now that ...Read More