In advance of the regional roll out and the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, some five modern lighting manufacturers or project developers and a same number of people from TERI were present for the WG discussion that focused on how to move forward and scale up. The manufacturers indicated that they would like to have [...]
Sunlabob Renewable Energy is a Lao-based company operating as a profit organization. Sunlabob sells hardware and provides commercially viable energy services to remote and off-grid areas. Sunlabob is a member of the Lighting for All working group of the Energy for All partnership. Activities on Energy for All: Sunlabob is involved in activities that [...]
Greenlight Planet combines cutting-edge technology with innovative distribution networks to commercialize low-power LED lanterns. The technology is long lasting and affordable enough that villagers can purchase them immediately in cash, thus can profitably reach hundred millions of people. Current activities on Energy for All: We design, manufacture and sell useful but unfamiliar solar-powered lanterns to [...]
BANGALORE: TERI has launched ‘Laltini’, the official mascot for its visionary project ‘Lighting a Billion lives (LaBL)’, which is committed to enabling a billion lives to access light from solar technologies. The mascot has been launched to connect with the rural communities and create awareness about the need for clean sources of lighting in these [...]
TERI and the New Delhi chapter of Round Table India (RTI), an organization headquartered in Chennai that seeks to promote community service nationally and internationally, signed a MoU on 10 May 2011, with the objective of furthering the LaBL initiative. As part of the collaboration, RTI’s New Delhi Round Table 24 (NDRT24) chapter will partner [...]
Between January and March 2011, CARD Business Development Services (BDS), an affiliate of CARD MRI – one of the largest microfinance institutions in the Philippines – trained more than 1,300 “nanays,” or small store owners, to become solar lighting resellers. Trainings were conducted in 7 provinces in the Philippines under a project supported by ADB [...]
In the Indian state of Orissa, villages protect their crops from hungry elephants with the aid of solar lanterns.
There are different ways to get involved with the Energy For All Partnership and get the communication going:
