How do you educate last mile consumers in India about new technologies? Visit 9,000 villages and engage over 200,000 people. With only 54 percent of India’s rural population exposed to television …Read More
Building markets for solar lighting, particularly among a widely distributed, low-income customer base, requires technical and business-model innovation. IFC’s Lighting Asia/India program accomplished both by partnering with solar distributors in …Read More
Kubra Khaliq, Qutub Ali Shah, Imran Khan, and Muhammad Ali are all harnessing solar lighting products to brighten their households at night and grow their businesses by operating after dark. …Read More
Jacinta Auma used to stock kerosene lamps, flashlights, and candles to light her home in rural Kenya, but that changed when solar panels were installed on her roof. Now that …Read More
Off-grid solar solution manufacturer and Lighting Global Program Associate d.light has raised an additional USD 10.5 million in funding to expand its operations in Africa and Asia, which brings the …Read More
In its inaugural market outlook report focusing on off-grid and mini-grids, Bloomberg heavily references the latest GOGLA-IFC Global Off-Grid Solar Semi-Annual Market Report, which found that more than 4M off-grid solar …Read More
The World Bank, in partnership with the International Solar Alliance (ISA), launched the Global Solar Atlas, a free, web-based tool to help investors and policymakers identify potential sites for solar power …Read More
The Lighting Global team has released a new Eco Design Note on the subject of product repair. Eco Design Note Issue 6 “Renewable Energy Product Repair Part I: Overview” reviews …Read More
In Washington, D.C., USA: Rahim Kanani Lighting Global Phone: (202) 437-8941 E-mail: rkanani@ifc.org In Washington, D.C., USA: Allison Kimble CLASP Phone: (202) 750-5124 E-mail: akimble@clasp.ngo In Utrecht, Netherlands: Darragh Cotter …Read More
We are now working to integrate the test methods for pico-products and SHS kits into a single quality assurance framework that covers off-grid energy kits with PV power up to …Read More
