The report contains the first-ever snapshot of the global off-grid appliance market and includes information on key market trends in three of the most important and promising appliance categories: fans, televisions, and refrigerators.
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A compendium of global information on appliance energy efficiency testing prices and testing laboratory costs for common energy consuming products. The purpose of the catalogue is to make it easier for governments, industry, and energy efficiency practitioners to evaluate where and how to test products in accordance with appliance standards and labeling programs, and ultimately make better-informed decisions about how best to allocate their program resources.
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In this study, Factor[e] Ventures and The Energy Institute of Colorado State University (CSU) sought to demystify appliances that have a drect economic benefit to the end user, because these appliances are often unelectrified even in villages where a mini-grid is present
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At Factor[e] Ventures, we know that connecting high-power appliances to small, islanded minigrids or stand-alone systems can be a challenge. We know because we spent a good part of 2018 investigating income-generating appliances (IGAs) commonly found in rural SSA.
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With the publication of this catalogue, the BMZ-funded GIZ sector program ‘Basic Energy Services (HER A)’ provides a market overview of DC-powered appliances, use-ful for developing and strengthening business activities in rural areas. This 1st Edition does not claim to provide a conclusive and comprehensive picture but rather to offer an overview of selected appliances available on the market today, complemented with elemental technical details, established distribution channels and, where possible, practical experiences from the field. The catalogue is directed at practitioners and public and private sector actors promotion
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This report highlights how the off-grid solar industry is currently providing energy to over 100 million people around the world, with sales of 4.4 million off-grid solar lighting products and 460,000 appliances in the last six months of 2019 alone.
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This report provides an overview of the market for PULSE micro-applications, which can be powered by standalone solar systems of one kilowatt or less.
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