Updates

A Message from the Coalition - October 2018

Oct 15, 2018

Itotia Njagi and Dana Rysankova, Managers of Lighting Global, the World Bank Group’s initiative to catalyze and support a commercial market for off grid lighting and energy solutions

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Efficiency for Access Unveils New Website

Sep 10, 2018

A message from Katrina Pielli – Senior Energy Advisor at USAID’s Power Africa and co-Chair of the Efficiency for Access Coalition donor roundtable

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First-of-its-kind Market Baseline Testing Results for Off- & Weak-Grid Refrigerators

Aug 13, 2018

Negligible data currently exists regarding off- and weak-grid refrigerator cost and performance. To help fill this gap and accelerate the off-grid appliance market, Efficiency for Access procured and tested commercially available refrigerators to establish a performance baseline.

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Efficiency for Access June Newsletter

Jun 28, 2018

June focused on all things refrigeration – which included a first-of-its-kind market baseline testing report, a market development roundtable in Amsterdam, and the launch of two new refrigerators designed specifically for off- and weak-grid use.

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Man W Solar Water Pump Photo By Arne Jacobson

Simusolar Doubles Rural Household Incomes in Less than a Year

May 24, 2018

In Tanzania 38.4 million households are engaged in farming for their primary or supplemental income. Of these, more than 95% depend on farming practices that rely on rainfall to water crops, rainfall that comes only 5 months of the year and is increasingly unpredictable. These realities challenge households, particularly women and children, with women constituting 70% of sub-Saharan agricultural workers, according to the World Farmers Organisation.

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