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 (IKEA Foundation) 的资金支持。
迄今为止，通过点亮全球质量认证的太阳能产品已使近1.8亿人受益，目前超过5200万人依靠这些产品满足了基本（1级）用电需求。自2009年以来，超过4200万件经过质量认证的产品已被售出。使用质量认证产品减少了约4700万公吨二氧化碳当量（CO2e）排放**。了解更多我们的影响力。
点亮全球项目的优势体现在它针对性解决供应链中特定需求的程序化方法。该项目的各项工具包括：
- 质量保证：为保护消费者免受劣质产品的侵害，防止劣质产品使消费者对离网产品的信心受损，我们为太阳能设备和太阳能家用系统制定了国际质量标准，并为制造商提供质量标准方面的建议。
- 市场情报：我们进行市场研究并发布洞察结果，展示离网市场带来的广泛机遇，并提供关键性数据，以帮助制造商、分销商和零售商做出明智的商业决策。
- 融资渠道：融资渠道已被认为是离网市场运作和发展的关键需求。我们为制造商、分销商、零售商和消费者提供便利的融资渠道。
- 商业发展：我们扫除市场发展的障碍，与个体企业合作，帮助其扩大业务规模，促成企业间的实地支持和联系，建立“最后一英里”的供应链。
- 消费者认知：我们提升新生市场的消费者对新兴太阳能产品的认知。
- 制定政策和与政府合作：我们与政府合作以移除政策和监管的准入壁垒，通过建立充满活力的离网能源产品竞争市场来提升清洁能源的接入渠道。
点亮全球在启动离网照明行业方面发挥了重要作用。在过去的十年，我们有机会与点亮全球团队合作，从行业初期开始，他们一直乐于倾听，提供支持并采取行动。
Ned Tozun, CEO dlight
我们与离网照明行业的合作始于2009年在肯尼亚启动的首个点亮非洲试点项目。此后，我们的足迹已遍及非洲大陆，并扩展到点亮亚洲项目下的亚洲和太平洋地区，以及目前正在美洲开展的项目。
*《可持续发展目标7追踪》：《2020年能源进展报告》指出，全球用电人口的比例从2010年的83％增加到2018年的90％，这期间超过10亿人获得了用电渠道。2018年仍未接入电力的人口为7.89亿，较2010年的12亿有所降低。
**排放量估值是根据全球离网太阳能协会（GOGLA）的影响指标（纳入峰值功率为5瓦以上的产品）并假设产品使用寿命为3年计算得出的。汽车当量数据来自 epa.gov
Today, there are about 789 million* people worldwide living without access to electricity – down from 1.2 billion in 2010. Despite this significant progress, under current and planned policies, an estimated 620 million people will remain without access in 2030, 85 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
The majority of those living without modern energy services rely on kerosene, candles, battery torches, or other fossil fuel-powered technologies for lighting. These traditional solutions are expensive, harmful to health, hazardous and polluting. They resign the poorest people on the planet to a life of energy poverty, which constrains economic development and impedes access to education, livelihood development, health, and basic services including communications, water, and transport.
Lighting Global is the World Bank Group’s initiative to rapidly increase access to off-grid solar energy for the 789 million people living without electricity world-wide. Lighting Global – managed by IFC and the World Bank, with support from the Energy Sector Management Assistant Program (ESMAP) – works with manufacturers, distributors, governments, and other development partners to build and grow the modern off-grid solar energy market. Our programs are funded with support from ESMAP, the Public – Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF), the Netherlands’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land, and Sea (IMELS), and the IKEA Foundation.
To date, nearly 180 million people have benefited from using Lighting Global quality verified solar products, and more than 52 million people are currently meeting their basic (Tier 1) electricity needs with these products. Over 42 million quality verified products have been sold since 2009. Since then, about 47 million metric tons of CO2e** have been avoided due to the use of quality verified products. Learn more about our impact.
The strength of the Lighting Global program comes from a programmatic approach addressing specific needs across the supply chain. The program toolkit includes:
- Quality Assurance: In order to protect consumers from poor-quality products and prevent the eroding of consumer confidence in off-grid products in the process, we created an international quality standard for solar-powered devices and solar home systems. We also advise manufacturers on the quality standards.
- Market Intelligence: We conduct market research and publish the findings, demonstrating the extensive opportunities presented by the off-grid market and providing critical data to help manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to make informed business decisions.
- Access to Finance: Access to finance has been identified as a critical need for the functioning and growth of the off-grid market. We facilitate access to finance for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and consumers.
- Business Development: We address impediments to the market’s development, and work with individual firms to scale their businesses, providing on-the-ground business-to-business support and linkages to build the last mile supply chain.
- Consumer Awareness: We raise consumer awareness about emerging solar products in nascent markets.
- Policy and Partnering with Government: We work with governments towards removing policy and regulatory entry barriers in order to increase access to clean energy by fostering a vibrant competitive market for off-grid energy products.
Lighting Global has been instrumental in kick-starting the off-grid lighting sector. We have had the opportunity to work with the Lighting Global team for the last ten years, starting when the industry was in its infancy, and they have always been willing to listen, provide support and take action. Ned Tozun, CEO dlight
Our work with the off-grid lighting industry began in 2009 with the launch of the first Lighting Africa pilot in Kenya. We’ve since expanded across the African continent and into Asia and the Pacific under the Lighting Asia program, and are currently developing a program in the Americas as well.
*Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2020 finds that the share of the global population with access to electricity increased from 83 percent in 2010 to 90 percent in 2018, enabling more than a billion people to gain access during the period. The population still without access to electricity was 789 million in 2018, down from 1.2 billion in 2010.
** This emissions estimate is calculated according to GOGLA’s impact metrics (considering products of .5Wp+) and assuming a lifecycle of 3 years. The car equivalency is based on epa.gov.