Availability of Solar Lights Increases in Rural Kenya
© Lighting Africa The market for clean, modern off-grid lighting products continues to exhibit good growth in rural Kenya, a new study just published by the Lighting Africa program shows….
MFIs, SACCOs Key to Clean Lighting for Women
…new Lighting Africa survey has found. The survey, undertaken in Kenya’s four key markets of modern solar lights – Nyanza, Central, Nairobi and the Coastal regions, found that women access…
Greenlight Partners with Angaza to Launch PAYG Consumer Platform
New customers purchase their Pay-As-You-Go Eco Easy Buy kits © Angaza Design Greenlight Planet has launched a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) platform, the Sun King™ Eco Easy Buy, to enable low-income customers…
Two More Products Enter the Market
Two products passed the rigorous Lighting Global quality testing over the past two months. The first is a new more task light, the SunKing Solo, which has a feature guiding…
WEBINAR | Expanding the off-grid market
…will also learn about practical experiences from enterprises in using data for PAYG expansion in new market countries. Press play below to watch a recording of the webinar: …
Women and Solar Lighting
…expansion of off- grid lighting in rural areas by working with these groups as product distribution outlets. Women Groups that were new to modern solar lighting products expressed great interest…
Revising Standards in line with Technology Developments, Consumer Expectations
…strengthen the quality standards and performance targets of off-grid lights in order to keep up with, and anticipate market trends, and to incorporate new research findings, for example, on end-user…
Environmental durability of pico-powered lighting products
Lighting Global has published the first two of a four-part series examining the environmental durability of pico-powered lighting products. The new Briefing Notes address “Protection from the Elements, with Part…
Lighting Africa Program Brochure
This brochure provides a brief overview of the Lighting Africa program, including its approach and history. It replaces a previous version of the brochure published in 2015 to reflect new…
Quality Assurance for Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) Energy Systems
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) enabled solar home systems and pico-solar products are rapidly expanding in market share, using new approaches to connectivity and emerging mobile money systems to provide low-cost financing for…