LuminaNET: Join the new global off-grid knowledge sharing network
The Lumina Project in November launched LuminaNET, a global social network for the off-grid lighting community to share knowledge, discuss emerging technologies and business models and to draw on each ...Read More
Solux Vision: From Assembly to Full Production within Africa
German solar lantern developer Solux Service GmbH has helped set up more than 60 solar lantern assembly workshops worldwide, most of them in Africa since 1996 in a drive to ...Read More
d.light Celebrates Reaching 10 million People with Solar Lighting
American solar lantern manufacturer d.light design celebrated its fifth year in the off-grid lighting business with an announcement that its products have reached 10 million people worldwide. A quarter of ...Read More
Azuri Technologies recognized for global sustainability role
Solar lantern manufacturer and distributor Azuri Technologies is the overall winner of the Sustainia Award, a new global award that honors ideas, solutions or technologies that are expected to significantly ...Read More
ToughStuff launches million dollar fund to accelerate solar uptake
ToughStuff has launched a 1 million dollar Solar Distribution Innovation Facility (SDIF), co-funded by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), to accelerate adoption of solar energy in ...Read More
Barefoot Power’s Lighting Project Registered for Carbon Finance
As part of its mission to provide 10 million people with clean affordable lighting by 2015, Barefoot Power has successfully registered its Program of Activities under the UN Clean Development ...Read More
Kenya: New Market Analysis Affirms Kerosene Importance in Lighting Homes
Lighting Global has published a second Market Intelligence Note focused on the Kenya Household Fuel Use. This market analysis derives from the 2005/06 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey on the ...Read More
Multinationals make an entry into African off-grid lighting market
The phenomenal growth of sales of portable lighting products in Africa has caught the attention of multinationals such as TOTAL, Philips and Schneider Electric, and drawn them into a market ...Read More
Lighting Africa’s Consumer Education Campaign wins Kenyan Marketing Award
Lighting Africa’s Songa Mbele na Solar (get ahead with solar) consumer education campaign has won the Marketing Society of Kenya’s best experiential campaign award in the NGO/Government category. The award ...Read More
Lighting Africa: time to build on success
Technology moves fast. But often the impetus to make it work for social ends lags behind. In an attempt to relate how far technology can come in a short time, ...Read More