The following document provides guidelines for creating Lighting Global Standardized Specification Sheets (SSS) that describe the characteristics of off-grid lighting products. The goal of the SSS is to provide clear,…
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance (QA) Framework supports the Lighting Africa and Lighting Asia programs with a range of services that measure, benchmark, and communicate product quality and performance for…
Lighting Global hosted a webinar on July 10, 2013 at 13:00 GMT to discuss the process of updating the Minimum Quality Standards and Recommended Performance Targets with interested stakeholders. During…
Lighting Africa’s Quality Assurance (QA) framework for off-grid lighting products is going global in 2012— Lighting Global will be the new home for the framework. The need for affordable, good…
A Roadblock to widespread adoption of efficient lighting is being formed by quality problems with LED flashlights; quality issues in the flashlight segment are spoiling the market in general. In…
The Lumina Project and Lighting Africa conducted a full-scale field test involving a switch from kerosene to solar-LED lighting for commercial broiler chicken production at an off-grid farm in Kenya….
This report focuses on women’s role in the expanding market for modern off-grid lighting. In the context of access to energy and lighting, the aim of this work is to…
Au niveau du ménage, les femmes bénéficieraient considérablement d’un meilleur éclairage et d’un meilleur accès à l’énergie. Les femmes entrepreneurs ont également beaucoup à y gagner ; l’éclairage moderne et…
A key barrier to lighting manufacturers, assemblers, and distributors in reaching these off-grid populations has been a lack of information on which to base their product and market development decisions….
This report is a snapshot of an African off-grid lighting market in transition. It builds on a baseline report completed three years prior in 2009 and shows market trends with…
