Minor updates to the Quality Standards
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance team has made some additional updates to the Quality Standards. These updates do not represent a change in Lighting Global practices, but are only meant…
ASSOCIATE SPOTLIGHT | Solar Run Helps Consumers Access Energy with PAYGo Enabled Solutions
…Built on an open API framework, Solar Run’s SHS integrated with four PAYGo platforms and over 20 mobile money companies across Africa and South Asia. Li said, “It largely allowed…
Testing Process Overview
This short brochure, available in both English and Chinese, describes the key steps involved to test a product through Lighting Global and provides a comparison of the different test methods…
Consumer Campaign for Quality-Assured Solar Lighting in Rural India Launched
…to have access to high quality solar lights.” All the products being promoted under the campaign have passed an independent three-month quality assurance testing process based on the IFC-World Bank…
Myanmar
…education campaign was launched in October of 2018. As the project develops, it will expand the services offered in these and other areas, including Quality Assurance and Access to Finance….
d.light and Nuru Energy nominated as Finalists for Prestigious Global Energy Prize
d.light design, a Lighting Africa Associate, has been nominated finalist for this year’s Zayed Future Energy Prize. d.light was selected from as many as 1,103 nominations and 425 submissions from…
Lighting Africa/Tanzania leads the way in Pico PV standards awareness
…through pre – verification of conformity (PVoC) companies and market surveillance. To roll out awareness activities, Lighting Africa/Tanzania organized a standards awareness workshop for the published mandatory Pico PV Standards,…
Niwa – Next Energy Products Releases Family of Modular Solar Systems
Niwa Solar has released a new line of modular systems, which includes the Office 200 X2, the Home Run 400 X3, and 15 additional systems made up of components in…
Putting Household Energy on the Climate Change Agenda
The African Energy Ministers Conference, Road to Durban: Promoting Sustainable Energy Access in Africa, that took place in Johannesburg on September 15-16, 2011, recognized the potential of low-cost household energy…
fosera Expands Operations in Africa with Third Assembly Line in Kenya
Local assembly plants will open job opportunities for electrical technicians © Meg Harper/Lighting Global German manufacturer of solar lighting products, fosera, has opened a product assembly line in Kenya in…