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Electronics
The 2018 Off-Grid Appliance Market Survey report examines the perceived demand and impact potential of household, productive use and healthcare technologies.
20 Sep 2018
Efficiency for Access's 2018 Data Trends Report examines market trends of off-grid appropriate TVs, fans, and refrigerators – the appliances most in demand by un- and under-electrified consumers.
19 Sep 2018
Lighting
Lighting Global Quality assurance tested a group of top-selling non-quality verified solar products in five domestic markets across Africa and South Asia. All 17 evaluated products failed to meet the Lighting Global Quality Standards for pico-PV products.
28 Aug 2018
Cooling
On 28-29 May 2018, the Efficiency for Access Coalition hosted a “Global Market Development Roundtable” in Amsterdam to discuss opportunities to advance markets for off- and weak-grid refrigeration. This setting provided an opportunity to engage a variety industry leaders including product designers, manufacturers of both on- and off-grid appliances, distributors, PAYGO solar home system providers, and other development and technology specialists.
11 Jun 2018
Agricultural Equipment
This document reports on a two-day global market development roundtable workshop that encouraged cross-collaboration among product designers and distributors, technology specialists, agriculture sector experts, and other key stakeholders to uncover and identify the many challenges and opportunities facing the solar water pump (SWP) market today.
21 May 2018
Negligible data currently exists regarding off- and weak-grid refrigerator cost and performance. To help fill this gap and accelerate this market – with support from UK DFID’s Ideas to Impact Initiative – CLASP procured and tested commercially available refrigerators in 2016 to establish a performance baseline.
15 May 2018
In late 2016, Global LEAP conducted a survey of energy access professionals to assess the expected demand for and impact of off-grid, solar-powered appliances, including household, small-medium enterprise (SME), and clinical applications with the goal of helping market actors make better-informed decisions about off-grid appliances.
14 Dec 2017
This document is a summary and distillation of CLASP’s research into appliances for which the demand is strong, but which are only available in low volumes and at relatively high cost. The summary also identifies early stage technologies which may be disruptive to existing dominant appliances.
The Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide is a catalog of the world’s best off-grid appliances. The 2017 edition contains information about off-grid fans and televisions that were named Winners and Finalists in the 2016-17 Global LEAP Awards.
17 Aug 2017
This guide focuses on room air conditioners and is intended to provide policy makers with information and best-practice case studies on how to promote energy-efficient and climate friendly room air conditioners in their respective national markets.
24 May 2017
Refrigeration
This paper from the Energy for Access Coalition unlocks the potential for the future of refrigeration, which represents the next big opportunity in the off-grid energy services market.
17 Mar 2017
The Global LEAP Awards Buyer’s Guide is a catalog of the world’s best off-grid appliances. The 2016 edition contains information about off-grid fans and televisions that were named Winners and Finalists in the 2015-16 Global LEAP Awards.
12 Jan 2017
Renewable Energy Systems
Solar home systems (SHSs) are technologically complex, and many companies offer a range of products. This guide presents the best available high-level technical and market information about one (1) SHS product and/or configuration per company.
19 Apr 2016
This four-page document summarizes the findings from The State of the Global Off-Grid Appliance Market 2016 report on three of the most promising off-grid appliances - fans, televisions, and refrigerators.
This report – sponsored by the Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership (Global LEAP), a Clean Energy Ministerial initiative led by the U.S. Department of Energy – seeks to deepen our understanding of the current state of the burgeoning off-grid appliance market, explore key market trends and areas of future opportunity, and explore linkages and interdependencies with existing off-grid clean energy markets.
The World Bank commissioned CLASP to take a fresh look at eight energy access operations and issue a report on how energy efficiency can help achieve better outcomes in access-related initiatives.
28 Aug 2015
This study argues that innovation in the development of appliances for off-grid applications should lead to a major acceleration of energy efficiency improvement rates globally, potentially doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency technology.
21 May 2015
The Global LEAP Awards Outstanding Off-Grid Appliances Buyer’s Guide provides high-level information about the Awards Winners and Finalists—and its purpose is to help SHS companies and mini-grid developers make smarter, faster off-grid appliance procurement decisions.
13 May 2014
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