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Heating

CLASP Calls for Cleaner Heat Pumps in the European Union

CLASP joins eight other organizations calling for the transition to more environmentally-friendly heat pumps.

Renewable Energy Systems

Energy for Everyone

CLASP shows how efficient, high-quality appliances empower people, protect our planet, and create a future where energy works for everyone.

Heating

Leveraging Low-Global Warming Potential Heat Pumps to Power Climate Action

CLASP is conducting research for the deployment of natural refrigerant heat pumps in Europe.
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Solar Appliances, a Sustainable Development Success Story, Need Support to Scale

Solar appliance companies are changing lives in Africa, but they can’t do it alone.

Motors

Maximizing Motor Efficiency to Minimize Emissions

Around the world, CLASP is improving electric motor efficiency to cut emissions and drive industrial sustainability.

Lighting

Driving Energy-Efficient Lighting in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, CLASP is working with the government to introduce mandatory lighting efficiency policies, expected to save $1.8 billion USD and cut CO2 emissions by 22.8 million tons by 2040.

Renewable Energy Systems

CLASP Chosen to Lead Initiative with Potential to Bring Clean Energy to Millions

CLASP was selected to lead the Energy Access Institutions Facility, a joint donor initiative to support and strengthen the institutions that are essential for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7, universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030.

Motors

Improved Efficiency for Motors & Transformers in China

CLASP works with Chinese partners to set pioneering energy efficiency standards for improved electric motors and renewable energy transformers.
Ugandan woman using a PowerUP electric pressure cooker

Cooking

Applications are Open! Scaling the Sales of Clean Cooking in Uganda

CLASP is working to support cookstove companies in Uganda scale the sales of affordable, cleaner and modern cooking equipment.

Cooling

Cooling India: Energy-Efficient Fans for a Greener Tomorrow

Learn how the Indian government, with CLASP's technical support, is working to reduce the energy consumption and environmental impact of inefficient ceiling fans.

Motors

Improving Appliances, Changing Lives: Pakistan’s Industry Accelerator

CLASP's Industry Accelerator program in Pakistan aims to transform the motor and water heater manufacturing sectors, to produce more efficient and quality products.

Motors

Boosting Industrial Competitiveness in Pakistan

CLASP launches an industrial accelerator program in Pakistan to spur innovation and improve appliance efficiency.
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Heating

Redefining Heating Efficiency: CLASP Presents a Unified Approach to Heat Pump Adoption in China

At a heat pump conference, CLASP highlighted the opportunity to use technology-neutral policies to accelerate uptake of more efficient heat pumps.

Lighting

Lighting The Path to Net Zero: Boosting China’s LED Efficiency

CLASP is partnering with the China National Institute for Standardization to accelerate the country’s transition to more energy-efficient LEDs.

Participants look at testing equipment

Heating

Bridging the Innovation Gap: Pakistani Manufacturers Tour Chinese Test Facility

To encourage domestic appliance innovation, CLASP led a group of Pakistani manufacturers on a lab tour of a leading appliance test facility in China.

Electronics

Innovative Financing Facility Supports 18 Productive Use Companies in Africa

See how CLASP's innovative financing provides subsidies and capacity-building grants to 18 companies in Africa, increasing the affordability and access to life changing technology.

Cooling

Kenya Launches First National Cooling Action Plan

To promote sustainable cooling solutions amidst rising temperatures, Kenya has introduced a comprehensive five-year National Cooling Action Plan.

Cooling

Results from China’s Energy Efficiency Program Encourage Further Progress

Evidence of China’s successful energy efficiency policies encourages CLASP to continue raising ambition through collaboration with industry and government.

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