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…
The Lighting Global Quality Assurance team held a webinar featuring its new guide to compliance and the consumer-facing information requirements in the Lighting Global Standards on 11 April 2019.This session…
Lighting Global has contributed to a new Shell Corporation publication which looks at energy choices for displaced people. The report estimates that in 2018, refugees and host communities spent roughly…
…and rural areas in developing markets. However, high attrition rates throughout agent networks in the sector are slowing the potential growth of PAYG companies and negatively impacting customer experience. So…
…tapped into as South Sudan is a relatively new market and specific market strategies have not yet been developed to address the multiple challenges of the energy sector in the…
Lantern Library charging in front of a school ©Kat Harrison Students in 58 selected rural schools in Senegal were introduced to a different kind of library — a luminothèque –…
…lower-income households will consume only small amounts of power. Through its New Energy Policy (NPE) elaborated in 2015, the Government of Madagascar has set an ambitious goal of increasing the…
…fulfill this lighting need in a sustainable way. The main challenges faced by new players distributing SPLs include low awareness of the product, low affordability and limited access to financing…
This webinar presented the proposed changes to the draft of the quality standards that was submitted to the IEC, with a particular focus on the new lithium battery safety requirements….
Access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern electricity and cooking technologies remains limited in Burundi. Only around 10% of Burundians have access to electricity, and in rural areas energy use…
