COVID-19 Resources
…energy access Blog, Koen Peters: COVID-19 Drives 26% Drop in Sales H1 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report Power Africa “Best Practices” for Off-grid Solar Companies Energy Access COVID-19 Relief…
Training technicians: Completing the market responsiveness circle
Lighting Africa has begun training first-line technicians to provide after-sales service and maintenance to solar lighting products retailing in Kenya and Ghana. The program will train more than 100 technicians…
BLOG | How Lighting Asia/India empowers women through off-grid solar solutions (by Anjali Garg) – on IFC Medium
…and their benefits jumped from 25 percent to 60 percent. The campaign worked. The second component built a cadre of women entrepreneurs to act as sales and service agents. We…
The Rapidly Emerging Off-Grid Solar Market (Webinar: April 20, 2016, 9am ET, 3pm CET)
…and mobile-phone charging. Solar-powered off-grid lighting products and home energy kits offer much better energy service at lower cost and the market for these products is growing rapidly, particularly in…
OPINION | Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem
…access to electricity and a billion more have only intermittent service from broken grids. As a result, many communities live almost entirely on dirty, noisy, dangerous, and expensive generators as…
Overview: PAYG KPI Framework
…Service Company sector is growing rapidly, especially the segments that use a variation of the Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) business models, which alone have provided more than 700,000 off-grid solar energy connections…
Quality Verification Services: New Pricing Fees Explained
…Type Approval/Verification Letter for the product. Accelerated Verification Method (AVM) Accelerated Verification Testing is an optional alternative quality verification pathway that is designed to be faster than the standard Quality…
Quality Assurance for Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) Energy Systems
…or in perpetuity in the case of energy service business models. If payments are not made in time, the system has internal circuitry to prevent its use, enforcing the loan…
BLOG: Public Funding for Off-Grid Solar
…For nearly all countries with an access deficit, off-grid solar represents the fastest and most cost-effective way to reach a significant proportion of the population. In many countries, off-grid solar…
申请产品质量检测
…directly to the test lab that conducts the test. Manufacturers who wish to have their products tested must contract with an approved laboratory for testing services. Penalties Failure to correct…