LED Lights and Eye Safety
This Eco Design Note examines safety issues related to LED lights and the consumers who use them. Specifically, it explores three basic questions: Can off grid LED lights be too…
Niwa partners with Sun Transfer to Assemble Solar Products in Ethiopia
…Solar Centers where consumers are taught how to install and use products. The Solar Centers also provide consumer credit and after-sales service and maintenance support over the full product life-cycle….
Second Round of the Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Grant Challenge Opens
…Africa. Eligible applicants from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and Tanzania will each receive $100,000 to develop, scale up or extend the use of proven technologies for off-grid energy use….
Quality Assurance Update: Revised Standards
…received and to explain our plan of action. The revised standards were put into use in May 2017 and were edited over the last four months to improve clarity. Here…
Second Round of the Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Grant Challenge Opens
…Energy Grant Challenge which will award a total of $1.8 million in Renewable Energy Grants to fully African-owned and managed enterprises, associations or organizations working at expanding clean energy access…
Quality Assurance
…systems that enable the use of higher-power appliances and productive use equipment. As consumers climb the energy ladder, the need to expand quality assurance beyond lighting increases. Introducing VeraSol In…
The Little Sun shines in Zimbabwe
…and chest problems as a result of soot from the kerosene lamps they used to use before Little Sun,” says Natsai Mlambo, a teacher at Muumbe Primary School in Chipinge,…
Sierra Leone to benefit from US$200 million electrification project
…mainly in rural areas of Sierra Leone, usually lack access to energy services, and primarily use small diesel or petrol generators and kerosene lamps for their lighting and energy needs….
Quality Assurance for Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) Energy Systems
…off-grid energy. The general principle is that end-users make ongoing payments for the system instead of paying cash up front, with confirmation of the payments through a range of approaches…
IEC, World Bank and UN Foundation announce rural electrification support for developing countries
…rural electrification, at specially discounted prices. The documents include the Quality Assurance Framework for solar powered off-grid lighting products, which has been used by the Lighting Africa and Lighting Asia…