Water

South African Shower Heads Testing Report

This report provides an overview of the flow rate profiles of available South African shower heads, and depictions of product spray patterns.

28 Oct 2022

Agricultural Equipment

Rapid Product Assessment: A New Approach to Testing Productive Use Appliances

VeraSol developed a Rapid Product Assessment approach for the quality evaluation of emerging productive use equipment. The new testing protocol offers a more direct and affordable pathway to verifying the quality of these nascent technologies. 

20 Feb 2022

Agricultural Equipment

Evaluating Appliance Performance in the Field: Results from Remote Monitoring Solutions Beta Testing

CLASP through Efficiency for Access beta-tested remote performance monitors to develop an ideal solution that monitors the technical performance of solar refrigerators, solar water pumps and solar milking machines in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Senegal and India.

10 Sep 2021

Electronics

Off- and Weak-Grid Appliance Market: Nigeria

This country profile covers relevant market and appliance performance data for off-grid appliances sold in Nigeria based on findings from Efficiency for Access market surveys. It provides market insights to help inform sector stakeholders and encourage higher market penetration for high-quality off- and weak-grid appropriate appliances.

14 Jun 2021

Cooking

Electric Pressure Cooker Usability Testing Buyer’s Guide

This Global LEAP Usability Testing Buyer's Guide contains information about select Winner and Finalist EPCs that participated in a three-month usability testing in Kenya. Testing was conducted as part of the 2020 Global LEAP Awards EPC Competition. 

24 May 2021

Guide to Building Sustainable Testing Capacity in ECOWAS

This Guide provides instruction on establishing sustainable testing practices for ensuring product compliance with energy efficiency programmes in ECOWAS states.

12 May 2021

Cooling

Enabling Reliable Testing Capacity in Southeast Asia

In 2019, CLASP carried out an inter-laboratory comparison exercise in Vietnam—an exercise to assess regional testing capacity of air conditioners and promote more accurate, consistent, and reproducible tests. The Round Robin Testing Report summarizes the RRT exercise findings, analysis results, and recommendations to improve the testing procedures and processes.

17 Dec 2020

Electronics

Off- and Weak Grid Appliance Market: Sierra Leone

This country profile covers relevant market and appliance performance data for off-grid appliances sold in Sierra Leone based on findings from Efficiency for Access market surveys. The profile explores the overall market landscape in Sierra Leone, the common power type, size, price, and warranty of off-grid appliances sold in retail markets, and other findings relevant to sector stakeholders working in Sierra Leone.

24 Sep 2020

Electronics

Transitional Test Method for Ecodesign and Energy Labelling requirements for Electronic Displays

Transitional Test Method sets out a measurement methodology that can be freely used by manufacturers and importers of electronic displays to assess compliance with two recent European regulations.

02 Jul 2020

Agricultural Equipment

Solar Water Pump Durability Research Memo

This memo fills important knowledge gaps on solar water pump durability by sharing key data from Global LEAP Awards laboratory testing and summarizing information from the existing literature and interviews with industry experts. It provides useful recommendations for how to enhance solar water pump durability and identifies opportunities for how to improve existing test methods and future quality assurance efforts.

14 May 2020

This paper details a preliminary study on the short-term impact of salinity, dust, and humidity on the energy efficiency of a room air conditioner (RAC).

05 Feb 2020

Refrigeration

2019 Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide for Outstanding Off-Grid Refrigerators

The Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide is a catalog of the world’s best off-grid appliances. This edition contains information about off-grid refrigerators that were named Winners and Finalists in the 2019 Global LEAP Awards.

23 Oct 2019

Agricultural Equipment

2019 Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide for Solar Water Pumps

The Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide is a catalog of the world’s best off-grid appliances. This edition contains information about solar water pumps that were named Winners and Finalists in the 2019 Global LEAP Awards.

23 Oct 2019

Electronics

Off-Grid Appliance Performance Testing: Results and Trends for Early-Stage Market Development

In their latest article in Springer Nature’s Energy Efficiency journal CLASP synthesizes data from the Efficiency for Access Coalition’s new tool, Equip Data, and gives readers a glimpse of the current status, efficiency and cost trends of televisions, fans and refrigerators.

24 Jun 2019

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18 Jun 2019

This paper presents an analysis of the performance of off-grid refrigerators based on data generated via laboratory and field testing processes. The paper includes an introduction of an off-grid refrigerator performance testing methodology developed in support of the Global LEAP program.

18 Jun 2019