Why Off-Grid Energy?
Currently, 840 million people* worldwide live without access to affordable, reliable and safe modern energy. Collectively, they spend about US$27 billion each year on lighting and mobile phone charging with…
Our Impact
Since we kicked-off our first pilot program in Kenya in 2009, the Lighting Global program has been at the forefront of the drive to expand access to modern solar energy…
Where We Work
Lighting Global works to rapidly increase access to off-grid solar energy for the hundreds of millions of people living without electricity world-wide by catalyzing the market all along the supply…
Africa
Our support for expanding electricity access through off-grid lighting and energy began with the Lighting Africa program more than a decade ago with our first pilot projects in Kenya and…
Bangladesh
Out of 160 million people in Bangladesh, approximately 70 million people do not have access to grid electricity and another 60 million have unreliable grid connections. The off-grid communities meet…
India
Nearly 60 million households (approximately 300 million people) in India are un-electrified (Ministry of Power, Government of India, June 2016). The majority of this large under-served population relies on kerosene…
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Work With Us
Lighting Global is the World Bank Group’s platform to support sustainable growth of the international off-grid solar market as a means of rapidly increasing energy access to the more than…
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Source the Products
Lighting Global provides guidance on procuring off-grid lighting and energy products. Lighting Global supports the off-grid lighting market, amongst other things, through testing and verifying off-grid lighting products against the…