Apply for Lighting Global Testing of Your Solar Home System Kit
…in Germany and the other is in the U.S.). Because initial testing capacity is limited, if a company is unable to complete these actions on the agreed-upon timeline, their testing…
LED Lights and Eye Safety
…audience including consumers, distributors, and manufacturers. The first Note in this series was published last September; it examined battery toxicity and its implications for the design of sustainable off-grid lights….
Apply to Test Your Solar Home System Kit
…will involve some piloting of new methods, there may be some delays in the process.) Once the full framework is in place, likely between July and September 2015, products that…
Using the I-V Curve to Measure Solar Module Performance
Lighting Global has released a new Technical Briefing Note, the 11th in the series, titled “Understanding Solar Modules Specs and Testing.” This Note discusses in detail how solar module performance…
IFC’s Lighting Pakistan and Aga Khan Agency for Habitat Offer Affordable Solar Lighting Solutions
(left to right) Nawab Ali Khan, Chief Executive Officer of AKAH, and Marco Indelicato, Program Manager for IFC Lighting Pakistan ISLAMABAD: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is…
Second Round of the Power Africa Off-Grid Energy Grant Challenge Opens
…is quoted in the media as having said: “Access to electricity is fundamental to opportunity in this age. It’s the light that children study by, the energy that allows an…
Quality Assurance
…products, and adopt harmonized policies, Lighting Global Quality Assurance instilled confidence in what was once a nascent and unproven industry. Under its quality assurance program, Lighting Global developed the first…
Availability of Solar Lights Increases in Rural Kenya
…In Kericho, a tea growing center, sales of torches, task lights and room lights had increased from some 37,000 units per year in 2009 to over 175,000 units per year…
Fosera Establishes Assembly Line in Mozambique
…the country. Fosera was founded in 2010 in Germany and has subsidiaries in Thailand and India with full production lines. The company has set its eyes on international expansion through…
Two More Products Enter the Market
…company to meet the Lighting Global quality standards. The second product from is the Pharox Solar Rooflight , which has an integrated solar module and is installed on/through the roof…