Pakistan
…rural Pakistanis are connected to the national grid but experience daily load-shedding or blackouts in excess of 12 hours on average. These 22 million households end up spending a massive US$2.3 billion every year on alternative sources of power. However, unreliable and poor-quality lighting products limit productivity and waste money. The initiatives in Pakistan are part of Lighting Pakistan/Afghanistan, which aims to enable 1.5 million Pakistani…