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
…increase fairness for companies and better reflect the wide variety of products submitted for quality verification, putting the program on a more sustainable trajectory. Demand for quality-verified products and related…
Stakeholder Feedback on Proposed Changes to the Draft Quality Standards under Review by the IEC: February 2020
…webinar we jointly hosted with GOGLA. Most respondents generally supported the proposed changes, and the feedback received enabled our team to make key improvements and clarifications to the draft, as…
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
…Global program provides market insights, steers development of quality assurance frameworks for modern, off-grid lighting devices and systems, and promotes sustainability, in partnership with industry. IFC and World Bank jointly…
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
…launch of the campaign in July. “This is a truly worldwide campaign. Our ultimate goal is for the PSAs to reach every person in the world who has no access…
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
…strategy for governments to provide rural communities with clean energy while working on expanding national electricity grids. Despite this impressive growth, however, modern lanterns are only being used by 2-…