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…
Six new solar products meet Lighting Global Standards
Six new solar lighting products have met the Lighting Global Quality Standards in the past month bringing more choice to consumers not connected to the electric grid. The new products…
New Standardized Specification Sheets for Quality-Verified Products
This document describes the feedback received on the revised design of the Standardized Specification Sheets (Spec Sheets) for Lighting Global quality-verified products. With the transition to using the new version…
New Report: “The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE) in Sub-Saharan Africa.”
…off-grid households and micro-enterprises across the agricultural, industrial, commercial, and public sectors. A market for these new applications is emerging, and is explored in our new report, “The Market Opportunity…
New Policy for Performance Reporting Requirements
…performance, such as “mobile phone charging can reduce the daily runtime of the lights” basic warranty information (this element is not new and is the same as that historically required…
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…
Lighting Global Quality Standards Published in Chinese
…and meeting quality standards in Shenzhen and throughout Southeast China. Russell Sturm, lead for energy access of the International Finance Corporation signed the agreement along with Ruan Shuangchen, President of…
Opportunites (CN)
…Group’s initiative to rapidly increase access to off-grid solar energy for the 789 million people living without electricity world-wide. Lighting Global – managed by IFC and the World Bank, with…
PAYGo PERFORM
…power to jointly address the challenges of energy access and financial inclusion for the hundreds of millions of people — mostly rural and low-income — who remain off-grid. PAYGo solar…
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…for the 789 million people living without electricity world-wide. Lighting Global – managed by IFC and the World Bank, with support from the Energy Sector Management Assistant Program (ESMAP) –…