…Thanks to that training, Onyong’e was among the first in her village to sell solar products. The training, run by Lighting Africa/Kenya in collaboration with local civil society organization Practical…
…Lighting Africa, was announced in Dakar on October 12, 2017, at the ECOWAS Sustainable Energy Forum 2017. The planned Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP) will aim to increase electricity access…
…energy consumption. Therefore, distributed energy, through simple plug-and-play solar devices -solar lanterns and solar home systems (SHS) – constitutes a viable option for energy access. REA estimates that some rural…
…products provide a safer, cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable alternative to conventional lighting solutions. They can also provide services that go far beyond lighting, including stand-alone systems to power the…
…plug-and-play solar devices -solar lanterns and solar home systems (SHS) – constitutes a viable option for energy access. REA estimates that some rural households spend as much as US$6 per…
…I did. Nowadays, ‘sina wasi wasi’ (I don’t worry) because the lantern, which uses kerosene, was sent packing and I don’t switch off my phone as I used to. I…
…wide-ranging topics such as the markets for productive uses leveraging solar energy (PULSE), and how to best support continued uptake of solar products through end-user subsidies. Our biennial Off-Grid Solar…
…that uptake of solar products is dramatically accelerated by consumer awareness, making sales cheaper, and easier, attracting more distributors, leading to more competition and lower prices – all underscoring the…
Lighting Global has just published a new market analysis report: Quality Communication: Quality assurance in Kenya’s off-grid lighting market. This study provides an in-depth examination of the pico-solar supply chain…
Lighting Global seeks to draw from available standards and learn from existing Quality Assurance efforts, and has released a new case study comparing the Lighting Global QA framework with the…
