In Africa, a large part of land has no power. Studies have shown that about 1.1 million households without electricity grid in the whole of Africa, so more than half of households use kerosene lamps are the main source of lighting, many more need other lighting sources to meet demand. Other non-renewable off-grid lighting options include candles, wood, animal dung, crop fertilizers and other bio fuels. Battery lighting equipment, diesel generators etc are used by rich enterprises. These traditional lighting options not only expensive, but also most dangerous to environment pollution.
Lighting Africa Program is committed to helping foster the development of private sector (provide solar powered portable generator), who establish the sustainable market, provide security and affordable off-grid lighting for the people of Africa. The long-term goal is to eliminate market barriers through the private sector, to provide illumination for who has no electricity or can only use residential lighting fuel in Africa 2.5 billion.
Lighting Africa program as an important part of the portable solar power generator to cover the individual needs of the general household lamps, covering solar lights and other solar power lighting system from a flashlight having a specific function to the general lighting functions.
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Due to special factors such as geographic location in Africa, solar portable lighting market will grow rapidly
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From the above figure can be seen in the next five years, the African market demand for solar portable lighting products is rapidly growing. Substantially the entire society have a huge interest in the market. Rapid technological updates, business model will be mature, the influx of a large number of private sector ready to invest in solar powered portable generator market, promote increased significantly.
Portable solar products and market demand connect closely:
Portable solar products quickly reduce the price, investment recovery period is shortened
Kerosene prices, can not afford to further boost demand for solar power portable generator products
Technical improvements to improve the lighting effect
The consumer is king
The use of renewable solar lighting to replace traditional lighting will have the following effects:
Effect on the environment
Effect on revenue-generating activities
Effect on education
Effect on household spending
Product Range
Portable solar lighting products can be divided into the following categories:
1. Product Type: customer demand-oriented
2. Product Performance: light intensity of duration and price
Product Type
Flashlight with led / traditional flashlight
Task lights / Work lights
Multifunctional lighting equipment
Miniature solar home systems
Performance
Can be clearly seen from the figure, even in the bottom of the pyramid market, quality, budget and expertise are a significant partition. More importantly, product performance and price are related, even in a small sample of the range, each partition has a clear price outstanding product.
It is worth noting that the low-end market of solar lights also contains many products do not meet the minimum quality requirements. Many African markets in particular, so the report omitted any analysis of the main prices between 1-10 dollars rechargeable flashlights and other low-cost and low-quality products.
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