WEBINAR | Expanding the off-grid market
Opportunities for Growth IFC’s Daniel Shepherd, Head of Energy & Water Advisory Services for Sub-Saharan Africa, leads an exciting online discussions about the opportunities for growth in the off-grid market….
QA | New Pricing for Quality Verification Services Effective October 16
…product, instead of charging a flat $1,000 fee for products being tested for the first time and $500 for renewals. While still heavily subsidized by donors, our new pricing will…
Stakeholder Feedback on Proposed Changes to the Draft Quality Standards under Review by the IEC: February 2020
…stakeholders who completed the online survey, which included consolidated responses from the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA). Additionally, we gained understanding from comments and questions during a lithium battery safety…
Products
All Lighting Global Quality Verified products are now listed on VeraSol’s product database. VIEW PRODUCTS What are off-grid solar products and what can they do? Off-grid solar products…
Government of Kenya Releases Data to Public on Easy to Use Web Portal
NAIROBI, July 8, 2011 The Kenya government today launched an open data portal, releasing several large datasets, including the national census and statistics on government spending at national and county…
BLOG | Championing the Cause for Quality in Off-Grid Solar Products
…manage off-grid lighting programs in more than 10 African countries through the Lighting Africa program. The success of the Lighting Africa program has inspired replication through the Lighting Asia program,…
New report: African Women Stand to Gain from Modern Off-Grid Lighting
…Africa consumer studies focused on Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Lighting Africa partnered with IFC’s Women in Business (WIN) program to author the report. For more information, visit www.ifc.org/gender…
Solar behavior change campaign underway
© Firdaus Kharas Nokero International , an Associate company of Lighting Africa, and award winning animation producer and director, Firdaus Kharas, have launched a multi-lingual mass communications campaign to spur…
Off-grid industry association comes to life
…incorporation is timely as recently published studies such as IFC’s ‘From Gap to Opportunity’ highlight the massive untapped potential and viability of the nascent energy-for-the-poor sector. IFC values the global…
African Lighting Market Records Explosive Growth, IFC/World Bank Study
…can fully unlock this market. Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program, is mobilizing the private sector to build sustainable markets that provide affordable, modern off-grid lighting to…