Policy Engagement
Through ESMAP, Lighting Global’s off-grid experts are embedded into World Bank operational teams to advise on the off-grid components of energy-access projects. We help to develop country-specific strategies to increase…
Quality Assurance for Off-Grid Solar Powered Lights:
…global off-grid lighting market. In order for customers to invest in solar lights, they must be confident that the product they purchase will perform as promised and last for a…
Revising Standards in line with Technology Developments, Consumer Expectations
…strengthen the quality standards and performance targets of off-grid lights in order to keep up with, and anticipate market trends, and to incorporate new research findings, for example, on end-user…
New Report: “The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
…off-grid households and micro-enterprises across the agricultural, industrial, commercial, and public sectors. A market for these new applications is emerging, and is explored in our new report, “The Market Opportunity…
Work With Us (CN)
…(in alphabetical order): Africa Renewable Energy Access Program (AFREA), Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), Finland, France, Germany, Global Environment Facility (gef), Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania,…
Focus Areas
Lighting Global seeks to build on existing success and lessons learned in order to expand off-grid markets to reach more than 600 million additional people with products that provide Tier…
Lighting Africa/Nigeria: Tackling Energy Poverty At Its Source
…to live above the poverty line. Basic needs such as food, housing, shelter, education, and finance are all adversely impacted by energy poverty and its limitations on a community. Energy…
Improving the accuracy of our impact reporting through the Multi-Tier Framework
…be counted as being ‘connected’ despite the fact that a critical set of basic energy needs were being met, whereas a family with a grid connection would be counted as…
Lighting Global Quality Standards: A Guide to Complying with Consumer-Facing Information Requirements
…marketing and communications professionals who may have limited familiarity with the Lighting Global Program and/or the Lighting Global Quality Standards. On April 11, 2019, Lighting Global Quality Assurance held…