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Quality Assurance Update: Revised Standards

Quality Assurance Update: Revised Standards

11 October 2017

Please see this message in Chinese below. We have revised the standards for pico-solar products and for solar home system (SHS) kits to ensure that they continue to serve as ...Read More

PAYG Insight Series: Sales Agent Network Management

PAYG Insight Series: Sales Agent Network Management

05 October 2017

This article is the first in a series that explores select operational issues faced by off-grid solar PAYG companies. Given the nascent stage of the sector, the goal of this ...Read More

Quality Assurance Update: Management Transition

Quality Assurance Update: Management Transition

19 September 2017

IFC first started working with industry to develop the Lighting Global Quality Assurance Program in 2008. Since then, IFC has managed the program’s operations—in partnership with technical advisor Humboldt State ...Read More

New Study Finds Kerosene Subsidies an Obstacle to Energy Efficiency and Development

New Study Finds Kerosene Subsidies an Obstacle to Energy Efficiency and Development

29 August 2017

In the latest issue of World Development, Evan Mills of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA) publishes an in-depth article about kerosene subsidies impeding progress toward social and development goals. Used ...Read More

Article: How Off-Grid Solar Access Impacts Literacy

Article: How Off-Grid Solar Access Impacts Literacy

27 August 2017

By Anna Wells, GOGLA Senior Communications Adviser Next month, the United Nations’ International Literacy Day will focus on ‘literacy in a digital world’. Without a doubt, digital technologies are changing the way ...Read More

Lighting Asia/India Consumer Awareness Campaign Featured in SE4ALL Practitioner Network Newsletter

Lighting Asia/India Consumer Awareness Campaign Featured in SE4ALL Practitioner Network Newsletter

21 August 2017

Recently, Lighting Asia/India’s SuryodayTM awareness campaign — aimed at educating potential consumers and helping them make smarter choices about solar products — was featured in the Energy Access Practitioner Network Newsletter ...Read More

Registration Now Open for 2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo in Hong Kong

Registration Now Open for 2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo in Hong Kong

05 July 2017

GOGLA and Lighting Global are excited to announce that participant and exhibitor registration for the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo (22 – 24 January 2018, Hong Kong) is now open! Have a look at ...Read More

In the News: Off-Grid Solar Market and Lighting Myanmar Featured in Local Publication

In the News: Off-Grid Solar Market and Lighting Myanmar Featured in Local Publication

29 June 2017

Recently, Lighting Myanmar was featured in Frontier, Myanmar’s most reputable English-language publication. Launched in June 2016, the IFC-led Lighting Myanmar project is a key component of the Government of Myanmar’s ...Read More

In the News: Lighting Global and Quality Assurance Program Covered in the New Yorker Magazine

In the News: Lighting Global and Quality Assurance Program Covered in the New Yorker Magazine

23 June 2017

  In a feature-length magazine article published in the New Yorker Magazine, the dynamic evolution and impact of the off-grid solar industry in Africa is profiled at length, including references ...Read More

Experiencing Solar Products in the Dark Sheds Light on their Power

Experiencing Solar Products in the Dark Sheds Light on their Power

13 June 2017

  This Spring, Lighting Africa demonstrated the transformative power of off-grid lighting and energy products to hundreds of World Bank staff and visitors. To do so, we set up black-out ...Read More

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