Lighting Asia: Solar Off-Grid Lighting
Published by: International Finance Corporation
Nearly 800 million people in Asia live in a state of near darkness, coping with unreliable or non existent or no access to electricity on a daily basis. There is a strong demand among off-grid consumers in Asia for reliable, clean and cost-effective alternatives to fuel-based lighting. This report provides an overview of the off-grid lighting market in seven nations across southern Asia – India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Philippines – and presents the opportunity for investors and industry players to make a real and necessary impact by serving communities without access to reliable electricity.