Article: How Off-Grid Solar Access Impacts Literacy
…upgrade to a larger one, customers often use products concurrently. I recently visited a rural store of one of the leading solar companies in Kenya. While lights and solar home…
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…-350瓦的产品。 质量标准持续在更新以反映市场变化（参考点亮全球质量标准日志），但标准针对的核心关键点保持一致： 广告真实性：广告和营销材料准确宣称经检测产品的性能。 耐用性：产品应具备适当防水、防固体异物的功能，开关和连接装置要耐用，便携式产品应防摔。 系统质量：产品通过接线和装配目测检查。 流明维持率：产品在使用2000小时后仍能保持合理的光输出量。 保修：消费者享有保修权利，保修期规定随产品类型而异。 以下政策就质量标准的具体要求提供更多指导： 性能报告要求（英文) 即付即用（Pay-as-you-go, PAYG）政策（英文） 光伏组件的IP检测方法（英文） 防水性能综合评估（英文） 室外线缆质量政策（英文） 参考我们的质量标准 买家、政府和机构如要确保产品质量和性能，可采用我们的质量标准，以保护买家和消费者，同时也有效规范市场。参照衔接点亮全球项目的要求，意味着可利用具有全球意义的最新质量标准，确保持续洞悉市场动态，从而保护买家和消费者权益。 我们为非政府组织和分销商等大宗买家准备了资料，如需要，各方可查阅这些资料，用作参考或按其所需采纳质量标准。如需详细了解如何在贵机构实施标准框架，请与点亮全球项目联系。 Our Standards Lighting Global maintains Quality Standards that set a baseline…
India Energy Access Summit Off-Grid Networking Event On 12 August 2016
Save the Date Off-Grid Industry Networking Event Hosted by: The Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP) & Clean Energy Access Network (CLEAN) In partnership with: The US-India Promoting…
Improving the accuracy of our impact reporting through the Multi-Tier Framework
…having access, even if black-outs were frequent enough to make it unreliable, or the cost of the electricity made use prohibitive. Recognizing the significant utility off-grid sources can provide, Lighting…
Ingress Protection (IP) test methods for solar PV modules released
…Lighting Global Stakeholder Engagement page. NOTE: the IP procedures were updated in January 2015 to require physical ingress protection equivalent to IP3X instead of IP4X. Please use the revised methods….
Consumer Preferences for Off-Grid Lighting Products
This study on consumer preferences was undertaken by the Lighting Asia/India Program to gain insight into consumer expectations from products on parameters such as brightness and daily hours of use….
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2010年，在全球范围内，大约有12亿人口过着没有电的生活。目前，这一数字已经降到7.89亿*。尽管已经取得重大进展，但根据现行和计划政策，预计到2030年，仍将有6.2亿人口无法接入电力，且这部分人口的85％集中在撒哈拉以南的非洲。 这些无法享受到现代能源服务的人口，大多数依靠煤油、蜡烛、手电筒或其他以化石燃料为能源的技术来提供照明。这些获取能源的传统方式价格昂贵，有害健康，高危且有污染性。它们使地球上最贫困的人群陷入能源贫困的生活，既限制了经济发展，又阻碍了人们追求教育、民生发展、健康和包括通讯，供水和交通在内的各项基本服务的步伐。 点亮全球是由世界银行集团发起的倡议，旨在为全球7.89亿无法接入电力的人口迅速接入离网太阳能。点亮全球项目由国际金融公司和世界银行共同管理，并得到能源部门管理援助计划 (ESMAP) 的支持，与制造商、分销商、政府和其他发展伙伴进行合作，共同建立和发展现代离网太阳能市场。我们的项目得到了能源部门管理援助计划 (ESMAP)、公私基础设施咨询机构 (The Public – Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility，简称 PPIAF)、荷兰外交部 (The Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs)、意大利环境、领土与海洋部 (The Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land, and Sea，简称 IMELS)，以及宜家基金会…
How Much Does Kerosene Really Cost?
…challenge to begin with because the actual price rural users pay for kerosene has only recently been incorporated into national census records. Moreover, “the available data on kerosene expenditures rely…
Faulu Reaching the Base of the Pyramid with Off-Grid Lighting
…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…
Mobile Money Catalyzes Clean Energy Uptake among Off-Grid Consumers
…phone machine-to-machine transfer) modules and mobile money payment systems as well as those which use top-up scratch cards and remote keypads. GSM technology allows PAYG providers to monitor and respond…