Lighting Papua New Guinea PNG Off-Grid Lighting Market Analysis 2014
Only 10 percent of the population in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has access to the national electricity grid, leaving 6.3 million people without access to the energy needed to meet…
Lighting Asia: Solar Off-Grid Lighting
With nearly 800 million people living in Asia with intermittent or no access to the electrical grid, these people experience greater health risks due to unclean lighting alternatives and fewer…
AC Charger Safety Approval Policy
The Lighting Global Quality Standards include safety requirements for AC chargers that are included with off-grid solar products. The language in the Lighting Global Quality Standards is as follows: “Any…
Performance Reporting Requirements
This document provides guidelines for performance reporting requirements for all products that meet the Lighting Global Quality Standards. The performance reporting framework provides buyers throughout the supply chain with standardized…
Outdoor Cable Policy
The Lighting Global Quality Standards for Solar Home System Kits include a requirement that “Any outdoor cables must be outdoor-rated and UV-resistant.” This requirement goes beyond the Quality Standards for…
Accelerated Verification Method Policy
Lighting Global has developed a new, faster framework for product quality verification. This Accelerated Verification Method (AVM) is an optional alternative quality verification pathway that is faster than the standard…
Lighting Global Associate Services Offering
The Lighting Global program offers product quality testing services to manufacturers and distributors of off-grid lighting products and appliances. After testing a product, companies can opt in to become “Associates”…
Communications and Branding Guidelines
This Information Sheet describes how partner organizations, Associate companies and contractors can present and refer to the World Bank Group’s lighting programs in their marketing communications tools and materials including…
Framework for Testing Product Component Families
Recently, Lighting Global has observed an increasing trend in manufacturers selling “product families”—a set of interchangeable components sold on a component-level basis or as “mix-and-match” kits. A benefit of selling…
Lighting Global Test Methods for Ingress Protection for PV Modules
This procedure measures the potential for water and solid objects to enter and damage or degrade solar photovoltaic (PV) module junction boxes. It is designed for reference by the Lighting…