MFIs, SACCOs Key to Clean Lighting for Women
…up and expand their work with women through Lighting Africa’s Women Initiative in order to catalyze further uptake of the solar lighting products by women consumers, and to usher women…
Quality Assurance Update: Management Transition
…Global and its regional affiliate programs, Lighting Africa and Lighting Asia. We are also pleased to announce that we are expanding the network of approved test labs to include Intertek…
Greenlight Partners with Angaza to Launch PAYG Consumer Platform
…and co-founder of Greenlight Planet. Greenlight Planet begun piloting the Sun King™ Eco Easy Buy lights using the PAYG model in January 2015. According to Lesley Silverthorn Marincola, CEO of…
Policy Engagement
…of more than twenty World Bank-funded energy access projects around the globe. The World Bank’s Commitment to Off-Grid Solar As the beneficial impacts of off-grid solar are increasingly felt and…
Quality Assurance for Off-Grid Solar Powered Lights:
…also entered the off-grid lighting market and threaten to spoil customer trust of the technology. Lighting Global—a joint IFC and World Bank program—is working to support sustainable growth of the…
Revising Standards in line with Technology Developments, Consumer Expectations
…the product; currently some only have 6-month battery warranties, which would need adjustment,” says the above-mentioned memo. To learn more about the proposed revisions to the Minimum Quality Standards and…
The True Cost of Kerosene in Rural Africa
This study documents the price of kerosene in rural areas of five African countries: Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Tanzania and Kenya. The goal is to document the cost of kerosene for…
‘Library’ of Solar Lights puts pico-PV in the hands of approximately 55,000 rural Senegalese
…hand the benefits of studying after dark using a clean, safe, affordable lighting source. The schools that received the Light Libraries were chosen based on their lack of electricity, the…
Work With Us (CN)
…(in alphabetical order): Africa Renewable Energy Access Program (AFREA), Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), Finland, France, Germany, Global Environment Facility (gef), Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania,…
Focus Areas
Lighting Global seeks to build on existing success and lessons learned in order to expand off-grid markets to reach more than 600 million additional people with products that provide Tier…