Google Funds Research on Impact of Solar Lighting on Poverty Alleviation
Google is funding a two-year study on the impact of solar lights on poverty alleviation. Google has put up $650,000 for a Randomised Control Trial study (RCT), the first large-scale ...Read More
Marathoner Releases New Products With Extras
Marathoner CLP Ltd has released two new products and updated their award-winning Beacon MB2-380 by adding a device with a powerful LED that can serve both as a torch or flash light and ...Read More
Greenlight Planet Releases Two New Portable Solar Lamps
Greenlight Planet has released two additional portable solar lights with mobile charging capacity bringing to five its range of products that have met the off-grid lighting Quality Standards. The Sun King Mobile provides ...Read More
Barefoot Releases New Plug-and-Play Solar Home Lighting System
Barefoot Power has released its fifth product, a new plug-and-play solar home system, the Connect 600 , which is one of three products that have met the Quality Standards for multiple (four) ...Read More
New Products Incorporate Additional Features
Three lighting companies have recently released products that meet the off-grid lighting Minimum Quality Standards. These new products come with new features including remote controls, extended warranties and brighter settings ...Read More
Lighting Global Quality Assurance Roadmap
The Lighting Global team has just published a new document that outlines the existing framework and future goals of the Quality Assurance program. In addition to describing the history and ...Read More
Discounts offered on key IEC documents for rural electrification
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance framework — including the QTM (Quality Test Method), ISM (Initial Screening Method), and MCM (Market Check Method) —was institutionalized through the IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) ...Read More
Portable Solar Lamp Passes Quality Tests
An award-winning portable solar lamp, the SUNLITE JS30-MOB, has been successfully tested and meets the rigorous Lighting Global Minimum Quality Standards. The lamp is the product of a socially driven ...Read More
Portable Solar Lamp Passes Quality Tests
An award-winning portable solar lamp, the SUNLITE JS30-MOB, has been successfully tested and meets the rigorous Lighting Global Quality Standards. The lamp is the product of a socially driven manufacturer, ...Read More
Details of water IP requirement for PV junction boxes coming soon
The Lighting Global team is finalizing the test methods to extend the water ingress protection (IP) requirement to PV module junction boxes. We plan to release these new methods within ...Read More