COVID-19 Energy Access Relief Fund Update
Social Investment Management and Advisors (SIMA Funds) has been selected as the sole Fund Manager of the Energy Access Relief Fund (EARF). They are currently working with key investors to …Read More
WEBINAR | H1 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report
Every six months, Lighting Global and GOGLA publish the Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report, a market intelligence series on sales and impact of off-grid solar lighting products, sold by GOGLA …Read More
2020 H1 SALES REPORT | COVID-19 Drives 26% Drop in Sales
COVID-19 Drives 26% Drop in Sales, Slowing Energy Access but Investors Remain Positive about Industry Performance By Koen Peters, Executive Director and Silvia Francioso, Database Specialist for GOGLA This post …Read More
Lighting Global Introducing An Upgraded Site In Chinese Language
By Lighting Global Communications Over the past decade, Lighting Global has played a central role in creating the quality-driven modern off-grid markets across Africa and Asia. Providing both market intelligence …Read More
Removing the blindfold: testing for COVID-19 in the absence of grid electricity
With the number of new coronavirus cases continuing to rise, it is clear we are still firmly in the pandemic’s grip. The past week saw a peak global average of …Read More
Reuters | Solar keeps lights, phones on for rural Kenyans during pandemic blackouts
By Kagondu Njagi This story originally appeared on the Thomson Reuters Foundation site. When Lucyline Wanja Silas installed a 12-volt solar power unit at her home to help her children …Read More
Blog | Lighting Nigeria:Tackling Energy Poverty Despite Covid-19
By Allwell Nwankwo Program Manager, Lighting Africa/Nigeria The program has deployed integrated consumer education campaigns that have reached over 70 million people Access to energy – or the lack of …Read More
Virtual Summit | Energy Access COVID-19 Relief Summit
REGISTER COVID-19 is causing unprecedented shocks on societies, healthcare systems, and economies around the world. It threatens to reverse the enormous progress that off-grid energy companies have made in bringing power …Read More
IEC adopts Lighting Global Quality Standards
By Natalie Mouyal, 26 June 2020 This story originally appeared on the International Electrotechnical Commission Blog Access to affordable and reliable energy is a basic need. Not only is …Read More
An Open Letter to Stakeholders |Off-Grid Solar: An Essential Service in the Fight against COVID-19
The off-grid solar sector has a vital role to play in the COVID-19 response. Just 41% of low- and middle-income country health care facilities currently have reliable electricity, whilst 789 …Read More