A Refugee Marketplace in Kenya
…camp is provided by refugees running gensets, which are mostly clustered around market areas to serve local businesses such as stores, barbers, internet cafés, grain mills, and even photo studios….
Our Impact
…advisory services, we have helped to enable off-grid energy access to tens of millions of people, reduced GHG emissions, and informed World Bank lending and government policies. Overall Impact …
Africa
…across the globe. Among those living without access to electricity in 2020, 77 percent—about 568 million people—lived in Sub-Saharan Africa, while 80 percent lived in rural areas around the world….
Bangladesh
…are being installed every month, making it the fastest growing solar home systems market in the world. The program pillars include quality assurance, business development and market information. The Lighting…
Virtual Summit | Energy Access COVID-19 Relief Summit
REGISTER COVID-19 is causing unprecedented shocks on societies, healthcare systems, and economies around the world. It threatens to reverse the enormous progress that off-grid energy companies have made in bringing…
H2 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report
Every six months, GOGLA and The World Bank Group’s Lighting Global program publish the Global Off-Grid Solar Market Report, a market intelligence series on sales and impact of off-grid solar…
Productive Uses Leveraging Solar Energy (PULSE)
…sector since its advent. The rural population tends to be among the poorest. In the absence of financing, this means that even the up-front cost of a solar lantern remains…
H2 2019 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Sales Report
…of COVID-19. This report highlights how the off-grid solar industry is currently providing energy to over 100 million people around the world, with sales of 4.4 million off-grid solar lighting…
Case Study: Lighting Africa/Kenya’s Solar Lighting Entrepreneurs
The World Bank and IFC jointly launched the Lighting Africa program, with the aim of providing modern lighting and energy products by 2030 to 250 million people who currently live…
Solar Energy Foundation wins National Energy Globe Award – Again!
…just won a National Energy Globe Award for its outstanding work in Ethiopia. The award will be officially granted on 5 June 2013, UN World Environment Day. This is the…