Solar Energy Foundation wins National Energy Globe Award – Again!
The Stiftung Solarenergie – Solar Energy Foundation just won a National Energy Globe Award for its outstanding work in Ethiopia. The award will be officially granted on 5 June 2013,…
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…
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,…
Quality Standards now Updated
The Lighting Global team has updated the Quality Standards to encourage the production of higher quality and safer products to better protect consumers. These updates include improvements to the lumen…
University of Nairobi conducts first low cost tests for solar lamps
Importers and local distributors in East Africa are closer to getting a source of testing solar lanterns destined for their markets as the University of Nairobi opened a laboratory to…
Kenya: Consumers want more from off-grid lighting products
The consumer education team gets a first-hand feel of one of the few multi-room solar lighting products available on the Kenyan market in preparation of a road show © Lighting…
Training technicians: Completing the market responsiveness circle
Lighting Africa has begun training first-line technicians to provide after-sales service and maintenance to solar lighting products retailing in Kenya and Ghana. The program will train more than 100 technicians…
Kerosene-free Kenya: Rio +20 agreement to increase access to clean energy
The Government of Kenya announced an ambitious plan to phase out the use of kerosene for lighting and Kenya and Norway signed an energy and climate agreement which will develop…
Lighting Global moves towards international quality test for off-grid lighting products
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance framework is going global in response to a growing need for a stable, harmonized approach to identify good-quality off-grid lighting products. Lighting Global is currently…
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…