The Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) is now operational. The off-grid lighting industry association inaugurated its first Board of Director mid-June, with Dr. Harald Schützeichel of SunTransfer elected President, and…
In the past two months, five new products have passed Lighting Africa Minimum Quality Standards and been issued Standardized Specifications Sheets (SSS). You can find out more about the products…
Window glass dressed with the new transparent polymer solar cell, made from photoactive plastic, which produces energy by absorbing and converting infrared light into an electric current. ©UCLA Researchers at…
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Lighting Africa consumer education campaign road show, Kenya. © Andres Bifani/Lighting Africa/2012 LuminaNet LuminaNet is a global not-for-profit online community dedicated to solving problems arising from fuel-based lighting in the…
Importers and local distributors in East Africa are closer to getting a source of testing solar lanterns destined for their markets as the University of Nairobi opened a laboratory to…
By Evan Mills, Ph.D. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Few project developers have bothered to qualify their LED lighting programs for carbon credits under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The requirements…
The African market for off-grid lighting products is projected to achieve 40 percent to 50 percent annual sales growth, with 5-6 million African households owning quality portable lights (primarily solar)…
