Quality Standards now Updated
The Lighting Global team has updated the Quality Standards to encourage the production of higher quality and safer products to better protect consumers. These updates include improvements to the lumen…
New Resource: Meeting Lighting Global Quality Standards for Consumer-Facing Information Requirements
…user manual, in online advertising, sales collateral, or elsewhere. Performance Reporting Requirements: The product packaging must accurately report certain key product features and performance metrics. Minimum Warranty Terms: The product…
A Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Solar Lights Quality-Verified
…The guide’s resources explain important aspects of the quality verification process, including the procedure, logistics and costs of product quality testing, how product sampling is done for testing, how results…
Kerosene-free Kenya: Rio +20 agreement to increase access to clean energy
…businesses currently available that the government can tap into in order to quickly improve and increase access to clean energy in rural areas. These lighting products typically comprise a 1-5W…
Products
…quality-verified products. The VeraSol product database is the largest online repository of quality-verified solar energy kits and independently-tested fans, refrigerators, televisions, and solar water pumps. Users may now use this…
Call for comments on Accelerated Verification Method
…to ten weeks. Lighting Global invites you to provide feedback to help refine this method through the engagement process described below. The engagement process: Sign up to receive updates regarding…
Discounts offered on key IEC documents for rural electrification
…to qualified stakeholders: 75% discount on IEC/TS 62257-9-5 (CHF 85.- instead of CHF 340.-) 75% discount on IEC/TS 62257-9-5 + all normative references (CHF 666.50 instead of CHF 2’627.-) 58%…
Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report (January – June 2018)
…half of 2018, 3.7 million off-grid solar products were sold globally by participating companies. That’s a 4% increase compared to the same time a year ago, representing a modest growth…
Nokero partners with ChildFund to power Liberia’s learning passion
…increased risk of violence. In an emerging follow-on initiative that holds much promise, the two organizations are engaging Liberia’s unemployed or underemployed youth in programs that improve livelihoods, and promote…
Announcing the 2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo Hosted by GOGLA and Lighting Global
…leading exhibition. To extend the reach of the Conference at the heart of this dynamic and interesting market, we are simultaneously launching an online content platform tied to the biennial…