Solar Home System Kit Quality Standards
This document describes the Quality Standards for Solar Home System Kits, which set a baseline level of quality, durability, and truth in advertising to protect consumers. Kits covered by these …Read More
太阳能家用系统质量标准 (Solar Home System Kit Quality Standards)
本文件描述了家用太阳能系统的质量标准。该质量标准设定了产品质量、耐用性和广告真实性的基准要求，以保护消费者权益。该质量标准覆盖的太阳能系统必须最大功率不超过350W, 直流电压不超过35V。[注：功率小于10W的产品应根据微型太阳能产品质量标准来评估。 如果功率介于11-15W的产品因其他项目规定，而需要依照微型太阳能产品质量标准进行测试，每项测试将多使用两个样本进行评估，并且产品需要同时符合太阳能系统以及微型太阳能产品质量标准。] 产品是否符合质量标准是根据实验室检测结果来判定的。实验室采用点亮全球家用太阳能系统质量测试方法(QTM)对产品进行测试。符合质量标准的产品将得到标准产品规格表(Specifications Sheet)和证书(Verification Letter)，并会被发布在点亮全球的网站上: products. 最新版本的质量标准可以从下面的链接下载。质量标准已经翻译成中文，但如果中文版本和英文版本有理解或释义上的出入，以英文版本为准。
Normes de qualité des kits de système solaire domestique (Solar Home System Kit Quality Standards)
Ce document décrit les Normes de qualité des kits de système solaire domestique, une suite des références qui établit un ensemble des niveaux de base de qualité, durabilité, et de …Read More
Technical Guides for the KPI Framework
The KPI Framework seeks to improve information flow between investors and companies in the PAYGo industry by establishing standardized definitions and reporting standards. The KPIs are not designed to replace …Read More
Procurement of Stand-alone Solar Kits for Humanitarian Aid
This Technical Note provides guidance on procuring pico-solar and solar home system (SHS) kits for humanitarian aid. It presents the relevance of the Lighting Global Quality Standards, key procurement considerations, …Read More
Upcoming Pico-PV Quality Standards – To be issued December 1, 2018
This document presents the revised Lighting Global Quality Standards for pico-solar products that will take effect on December 1, 2018. The revised standards, which now include requirements for ports and …Read More
Conditional Pass Policy
This document outlines the treatment of products that do not fully meet the Lighting Global Quality Standards due to an easy-to-fix issue that can be addressed without retesting. In cases …Read More
Quality Matters
In 2017, Lighting Global tested 17 top-selling, non-quality verified solar products from retail stores in Ethiopia, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, and Tanzania. All 17 products failed to meet Lighting Global Quality …Read More
Changes to Lighting Global testing: Transition to IEC 62257-9-5:2018 (ed.4)
In June 2018 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published a new edition of the test methods used for testing solar products, IEC 62257-9-5:2018 (also written as IEC 62257-9-5 ed. 4). …Read More
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 …Read More