Designing Public Funding Mechanisms in the Off-Grid Solar Sector
…cost or risk of supplying products to end users, and are demand side when the funding mechanism is designed to make OGS more affordable to end users. READ THE REPORT…
Seeking Stakeholder Feedback on Draft Performance Reporting Requirements
…making purchasing decisions in the market have access to the necessary information to make well-informed decisions. The performance reporting requirements will be included as part of the Quality Standards for…
Lighting Africa: time to build on success
Technology moves fast. But often the impetus to make it work for social ends lags behind. In an attempt to relate how far technology can come in a short time,…
Blog | Enjoying the Blissful Agony of the World Cup: Off-Grid Energyβs Benefits Reach Beyond Productive Use
…being able to watch if a particular team overcomes the hurdle of the group stage to make it to the knock-out rounds. In Africa, for example, where about 67% of…
Solar Energy Foundation wins National Energy Globe Award β Again!
…the national, regional and global levels, to recognize projects that ‘make careful and economical use of resources and employ alternative energy sources.’ The jury is headed by Maneka Gandhi (Member…
Niwa partners with Sun Transfer to Assemble Solar Products in Ethiopia
…value for consumers as well as to make it possible for Ethiopian distribution and retail companies to purchase the most advanced solar products in local currency,” says Ti el Attar,…
Quality Assurance Update: Revised Standards
…other changes in response to stakeholder feedback. We also translated the standards into Chinese to make them more accessible to companies manufacturing products in China. We believe that improving understanding…
Stakeholder Feedback on Proposed Changes to the Draft Quality Standards under Review by the IEC
…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…
OPINION | Solar and battery storage: A clean solution to a dirty problem
…staggering. In the 167 developing countries studied by IFC, fuel-burning generators spread across 20 to 30 million individual sites have a total capacity of 350–500 gigawatts. That’s equivalent to 700…
World Environment Day | Cleaner, Safer and Better Lighting and Energy
…beginning to slowly get back to their normal lives. But we know, as well as you do, that we can continue to make a difference in reducing the carbon footprint…