QA | New Pricing for Quality Verification Services Effective October 16
…for an additional fee. These changes in how we price our services do not affect which products or components need to be tested or how. We will continue to work…
New Report Stresses the Need for Responsibly Designed End-User Subsidies
…to close the affordability gap and improve access to off-grid solar (OGS) and clean cooking solutions without distorting markets. It is part of the program’s focus on pro-poor end-user subsidies….
Quality Assurance
…2016. Learn more at VeraSol. Applying Quality Standards Our Quality Standards helped to establish a common language for how our industry communicates and set the global baseline for product quality….
Distribution of Quality Tested Products Ramps Up and Out
…of success in building volume in remote rural and other hard to reach markets that tend to operate in less conventional ways. The net effect of these activities, and supported…
New report: African Women Stand to Gain from Modern Off-Grid Lighting
…Africa consumer studies focused on Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia. Lighting Africa partnered with IFC’s Women in Business (WIN) program to author the report. For more information, visit www.ifc.org/gender…
BLOG | How Lighting Asia/India empowers women through off-grid solar solutions (by Anjali Garg) – on IFC Medium
…and their benefits jumped from 25 percent to 60 percent. The campaign worked. The second component built a cadre of women entrepreneurs to act as sales and service agents. We…
Seeding solar lighting among Kenya’s maize farmers
…which has got the village very excited. Fifteen more women from the Korosiot chama (group) have as a result also bought themselves solar lanterns. More have promised to buy lanterns…
Sunny Money hits record sales through its ‘student lights’ campaign
…and the security of our home. The light has reduced our costs especially for kerosene. I used to buy two litres of kerosene each week,†she says. “Also my daughter…
The tipping point – How the African market for off-grid lighting products is taking off
…products that suit their needs. The new-generation lamps offer features that consumers are demanding, such as cell phone chargers. The prices of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), solar components, and batteries have…
商业机会
…东部和南部非洲贸易发展银行中小企业融资设施 报名申请提交截止日期：滚动机制至2024年 东部和南部非洲贸易发展银行(Eastern and Southern Africa Trade and Developmetn Bank, 简称 TDB) 荣幸地宣布启动规模为7500万美元的中小企业基础设施融资机制，这是其由世界银行资助的4亿美元区域基础设施融资机制的一部分。 中小企业基础设施融资设施旨在通过提高受新冠肺炎危机影响的基础设施 (包括一级和二级离网太阳能接入) 价值链中中小企业的流动性，在短期内为家庭维持经济活动，并在中期支持企业的生产力。该设施将优先聚焦离网能源领域的可再生能源中小企业，向在东部和南部非洲 TDB 成员国运营的中小企业提供美元和当地货币的债务融资。参与申请的离网家用太阳能系统企业需具备 IEC/点亮全球质量标准认证。 更多信息，请联系 TDB 高级顾问 Eyob Easwaran, Eyob.Easwaran@tdbgroup.org 和项目和基础设施融资主管 Simbarashe Chikarango, Simbarashe.Chikarango@tdbgroup.org. …