Policy Engagement
…16 additional countries having completed their IEPs in the last 2 years. This underscores how well established the essential role that off-grid solar must play in order to achieve SDG7…
Quality Assurance for Off-Grid Solar Powered Lights:
…global off-grid lighting market. In order for customers to invest in solar lights, they must be confident that the product they purchase will perform as promised and last for a…
Revising Standards in line with Technology Developments, Consumer Expectations
…advances, especially LED, and declining component costs. “Decreasing LED cost and increasing performance has driven the cost of LED products to less than half that of comparable products using compact…
New Report: “The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
…to: Improve food security: 26% of the sub-Saharan African (SSA) population, aged 15 or older suffers from food insecurity. PULSE solutions can help meet the growing demand for food through…
The True Cost of Kerosene in Rural Africa
This study documents the price of kerosene in rural areas of five African countries: Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya. The goal is to document the cost of kerosene for…
‘Library’ of Solar Lights puts pico-PV in the hands of approximately 55,000 rural Senegalese
…3% of the population owned a solar light, and only 20% had ever even heard of them. The objectives of the Light Library project, designed and delivered by UK charity…
Focus Areas
Lighting Global seeks to build on existing success and lessons learned in order to expand off-grid markets to reach more than 600 million additional people with products that provide Tier…
Lighting Africa/Nigeria: Tackling Energy Poverty At Its Source
…be counted. For instance, commercial banks need to explore the opportunities in financing household solar projects. So far, microfinance institutions have played a more significant role, but commercial banks can…
Improving the accuracy of our impact reporting through the Multi-Tier Framework
…provide energy access to an additional 250 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 – but has also been codified in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7: “Ensure…
d.light Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Product
…initial deposit then pays the balance in small affordable daily payments for a period of one year through the mobile payment platform M-PESA in order to fully own the product….