Updates
Advancing Markets for Off-Grid Solar Water Pumps and Grain Mills
Oct 15, 2018
The LEIA team is partnering with industry players to support the uptake of energy efficient, off-grid agricultural appliances
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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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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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Welcome to a new era of Efficiency for Access!
May 24, 2018
A message from Steven Hunt Senior Energy & Innovation Advisor, DFID and Co-chair of the Efficiency for Access Coalition.
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Energy Access Practitioner Network 2017 Survey Highlights Appliances
Mar 05, 2018
The United Nations Foundation-led Energy Access Practitioner Network released its 2017 survey results, the latest in a series the Network has conducted since 2012. As the largest network of its kind, the Practitioner Network’s annual member survey “gauges the pulse” across the energy access value chain, from consumer finance to product design, marketing, distribution, after-sales service, and research and development.
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Efficiency for Access – A New Phase of Cooperation to Accelerate Energy Access Through Affordable, Efficient Appliances
Jan 08, 2018
UK aid, USAID/Power Africa, Rockefeller Foundation, Shell Foundation, Good Energies Foundation, and more join together to promote energy efficient appliances as a powerful catalyst to clean energy access
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