"Dear Stakeholders, As part of our effort to extend support to larger solar home system (SHS) kits, in August, the Lighting Global team released our draft Test Methods for SHS kits for stakeholder review. Initial…"
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Call for comments on Lighting Global draft Test Methods and Quality Standards for Solar Home System Kits
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Apply for Lighting Global Testing of your Solar Home System Kit
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Meg Harper replied to Meg Harper's discussion Call for comments on Lighting Global draft Test Methods and Quality Standards for Solar Home System KitsMeg Harper posted a discussionCall for comments on Lighting Global draft Test Methods and Quality Standards for Solar Home System Kits
Lighting Global and the regional Lighting Africa, Lighting Asia, and Lighting Pacific programs are in the process of extending support to larger (10W to 100W) solar home system kits in response to consumer and industry demands.We are now releasing our draft Test Methods for SHS kits for stakeholder review. These methods are similar to those for pico products, but…See More
Meg Harper's discussion was featuredApply for Lighting Global Testing of your Solar Home System Kit
This is a call out to any manufacturers of solar home system kits:As we hope you have heard, over the next year, Lighting Global and the regional programs (Lighting Africa, Lighting Asia and Lighting Pacific) will begin to extend support to “plug-and-play” direct current (DC) solar home system kits.A step in this process is exploring and piloting test methods for these larger systems. We are currently learning from our first round of…See More
Meg Harper posted a discussionApply for Lighting Global Testing of your Solar Home System Kit
This is a call out to any manufacturers of solar home system kits:As we hope you have heard, over the next year, Lighting Global and the regional programs (Lighting Africa, Lighting Asia and Lighting Pacific) will begin to extend support to “plug-and-play” direct current (DC) solar home system kits.A step in this process is exploring and piloting test methods for these larger systems. We are currently learning from our first round of…See More
Meg Harper replied to Evan Mills's discussion Lighting Global Expanding Scope to Support Solar Home System Kits"Hi all,
Thanks for your additional feedback on the issue of institutionalizing the test methods through the IEC. We agree that there are significant benefits to free, open source test methods, but feel that the benefits of the respected reputation,…"
Meg Harper replied to Evan Mills's discussion Lighting Global Expanding Scope to Support Solar Home System Kits"Hi all,
Thank you for your comments and questions about Lighting Global QA referencing IEC documents.
When first developing the test methods used to assess pico-powered systems, our quality assurance teams worked openly with stakeholders to develop…"
Meg Harper posted an eventLighting Global and GOGLA Webinar on Quality Assurance for Solar Home System Kits at Sign in / Call in details will follow
September 17, 2014 from 7am to 8am
Lighting Global and the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) will host a webinar on September 17th, 2014 at 14:00 GMT to discuss the feedback and outcomes of the recent stakeholder process regarding the proposed Quality Standards for Solar Home System Kits. Thank you all for your interest in the expansion of Lighting Global's quality assurance framework to include solar home system kits. The Lighting Global team has received a number of comments and is in the process of providing…See More
Meg Harper replied to Evan Mills's discussion Lighting Global Expanding Scope to Support Solar Home System Kits"Thank you all again for your comments and clarifications. Ognen, I will contact you to talk more about your team's findings. Salvatore, we agree that the standards, test methods used to assess compliance with the standards, and the…"
Meg Harper replied to Evan Mills's discussion Lighting Global Expanding Scope to Support Solar Home System Kits"On behalf of the Lighting Global quality assurance team, I want to thank you for all the great feedback regarding the program’s plans to cover solar home system kits. We will respond to some of the concerns and questions that have been raised…"
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