Virtual Summit | Energy Access COVID-19 Relief Summit
…micro, small to medium enterprises (MSMEs) companies that are essential for the energy access ecosystem in the short and medium term. In order to continue offering their services, the off-grid…
Blog | Lighting Nigeria:Tackling Energy Poverty Despite Covid-19
…institutions to facilitate the disbursement of micro-loans worth nearly US$6 million to help their customers –over 80 percent of whom are women– purchase solar products. It has trained hundreds of…
Kerosene-powered night fishing untapped market for clean lighting, study
…night fishermen, which could justify retooling and marketing investment on the part of lighting manufacturers. We estimate an existing expenditure on the order of $70 million per year for fuel…
Solar Lighting in Humanitarian Emergency Settings
…and energy stands at the intersection of so many things that are of concern to UNHCR – from protection, to nutrition, to health, to the environment, to livelihoods to education,”…
Productive Uses Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE)
…of our work in building sustainable markets for off-grid solar lighting and energy products. Since then, various financing schemes have been developed to enable access to an ever-wider array of…
More Solar Lanterns Pass Lighting Global Quality Tests
…out to provide sustainable lighting to off-grid communities. To date, a total of 49 modern off-grid lights have undergone quality-testing and passed, and available to families and communities without…
Key Off-Grid Players Awarded Zayed Future Energy Prizes
…“We know that this recognition comes with even higher expectations! We believe that we are still at the early stages of what we will achieve as a business, now connecting…
Azuri secures Β£1m working capital from Barclays to scale-up in sub-Saharan Africa
The Azuri Duo Indigo Solar Home System Azuri, developer of the Indigo pay-as-you-go solar power system for off-grid markets, secured a £1m working capital loan from Barclays last month to…
Solar Light: My Chance to Pass Exams
…Village Elementary School in Denver, Colorado went on a fundraising mission in order to supply Daisy and her classmates with solar lights. This was undertaken as part of an international…
Removing the blindfold: testing for COVID-19 in the absence of grid electricity
…we have. In order to do so, says Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, “all countries should be able to test all suspected cases. They cannot…