CALL FOR COMMENTS | Feedback on proposed changes to the draft quality standards
…comments. Please submit comments by 17 May 2019. We value your feedback and plan to use the insight you provide to ensure that the final document best meets the needs…
Quality Assurance Update: Management Transition
…Quality Assurance Program is being transitioned to CLASP, an independent organization with a nearly 20-year track record of helping to develop and implement best-in-class energy efficiency standards and related market…
Orb Energy Secures Funding to Replicate Indian Business Model in Kenya
…hot water, with the best after-sales service. We now intend to replicate it in Kenya while at the same time expanding our India presence. Kenya is an excellent starting point…
fosera’s new Solar TV Takes Home Outstanding Off-Grid Appliance Award
…run by the Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership, (Global LEAP). The competition sought to identify and promote the world’s best, most energy-efficient off-grid color televisions and LED room lighting…
Women and Solar Lighting
…launched a “Fund-a-Project” competition, which would provide up to US$10,000 in matching funds per project idea to applicants with the best business plan for promoting the financing, sales and distribution…
New Report: “The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
…machines could increase yields substantially by increasing efficiency up to five-fold or more. Create employment opportunities: Agriculture sustains the livelihoods of more than 50% of the African population. Greater productivity…
Off-Grid Solar Lighting Up Ethiopia
…and SHSs to ensure Ethiopians have access to the best off-grid renewable lighting and energy products available. So far, 800,000 off-grid products meeting Lighting Global’s Quality Standards have been imported…
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…
Announcing the First-Ever Key Performance Indicator Framework for the Off Grid Solar Pay-As-You-Go Sector
…industry clearly outweighs its supply. Recent opinion pieces shed light on some of the underlying issues that continue to block effective investments in the sector, including investors’ mismatched expectations and…
Lighting Africa Program Kicks Off in Nigeria
…Energy Ministerial is a global forum where best practices are shared, and policies and programs encouraging and facilitating transition to a clean global energy economy are promoted. The Lighting Africa…