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Renewable Energy Systems
In celebration of CLASP's 20th anniversary, each month we profile one of our team members. This month, we sat down with Elisa Lai, a Senior Associate on the Market Development & Innovation team.
12 Sep 2019
In celebration of CLASP's 20th anniversary, each month we profile one of our team members. This month, we sat down with Wendy Hado, an Associate supporting the Global LEAP Awards.
20 Aug 2019
On July 16-18, the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) hosted a solar e-waste festival in Nairobi, Kenya. CLASP joined our partners and industry experts to create new ideas, partnerships and projects to address the growing solar e-waste challenge in sub-Saharan Africa.
08 Aug 2019
Electronics
In order to aid policymakers and program managers with the development and design of appliance energy performance testing programs, CLASP worked with the Super-efficient Appliance Deployment (SEAD) Initiative and P&R Energy LLC to develop the SEAD Global Appliance Testing Costs Catalogue.
02 Jul 2019
Efficiency for Access and our partners are excited to share a new suite of research to empower clean energy access stakeholders with consumer, technical, and market intelligence.
18 Jun 2019
In celebration of CLASP's 20th anniversary, each month we profile one of our team members. This month we hear from Corinne Schneider, CLASP’s Chief Communications Officer.
16 Jun 2019
On May 10th, at the Dockmaster Building at D.C.’s District Wharf, past and current team, board members, and partners gathered to celebrate CLASP’s 20 years of impact.
14 Jun 2019
Batteries & Storage
The Global LEAP Awards Solar E-Waste Challenge recently closed after a two-month nomination period for innovations in solar e-waste management.
05 Jun 2019
Cooking
On 14 May, the Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme held a launch event at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya. The launch brought together key regional stakeholders to discuss potential opportunities to partner with the MECS program in East Africa.
Within the newly released 2018 Annual Report, we highlight the year’s 11 greatest milestones, innovations in technology and policy, CLASP’s impact on human welfare and the planet, while introducing the year’s newest donors and partners.
14 May 2019
CLASP is excited grow its capacity to serve the energy efficiency, policy, and clean energy access sectors, and accelerate our transition to a more sustainable world. In the first four months of the year, six individuals have joined our internationally distributed team.
12 Apr 2019
Agricultural Equipment
To address existing consumer and market information gaps, Efficiency for Access collaborated with Simusolar on a major research effort to size and characterize the market potential for modern irrigation in the Tanzanian horticulture sector.
09 Apr 2019
In celebration of CLASP's 20th anniversary, each month we profile one of our team members. This month we’re featuring Steve Pantano, CLASP’s Chief Innovation Officer based in Washington D.C., to explore his journey with the organization.
19 Mar 2019
Commercial markets for off-grid appliances remain nascent and face many barriers. Manufacturers, distributors who invest in understanding consumers – what they want, how they interact with the product, as well as the developmental and economic impacts of ownership – will be better placed to innovate, develop, and market products that can best service cash- and energy-constrained consumers.
26 Feb 2019
In celebration of CLASP's 20th anniversary, each month we will profile one our incredible team members. This week, we sat down with Ruth Kimani, who works on CLASP's clean energy access program from Nairobi, to learn more about her perspectives on work and life.
As CLASP looks to its future, we must embrace creativity and nascence—seeing, seizing, and nimbly implementing on both old and new frontiers. We must remain focused on the outcomes we seek today — preventing catastrophic climate change and eliminating energy poverty — while judiciously appraising our capacity to seek equally important but as yet unaddressed outcomes tomorrow.
24 Jan 2019
The 2019 Global LEAP Awards will identify low-cost, energy-efficient refrigerator and solar water pump technologies appropriate for communities living in off- and weak-grid areas in developing countries.
08 Nov 2018
A recent Lighting Global analysis demonstrates that a rigorous quality assurance framework – which includes product testing and quality standards – remains essential to the health of the off-grid market.
28 Aug 2018
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