Namene Solar Light Company: Replacing Kerosene lights and paraffin candles by solar lights in Namibia

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Namene Solar Light Company: Replacing Kerosene lights and paraffin candles by solar lights in Namibia

To eradicate the use of high cost, dangerous and GHG emitting kerosene lamps and paraffin candles, Namene Solar Light Company aims to distribute Lighting Global certified pico-solar lights (the SM100) to households in Namibia. A significant market penetration of pico-solar lights will reduce the emitted mass of GHGs and climate forcing black carbon generated from fossil fuel-based sources of lighting used by a large amount of households in Namibia. Climate financing secured from successful Gold Standard accreditation would be used to support the substitution of kerosene lamps and paraffin candles with pico-solar lights, the SM100. Critical to mass market adoption and penetration is breakthrough in affordability of pico-solar lights as a clean and safe substitute for kerosene lamps and candles. The UN SDG impacts of this Project, spanning local rural community and national level, are significant, broad and far reaching. "Poverty leads to a lack of light, this leads to a lack of homework, this to poor performance and this back to poverty." This Project aims to break this vicious cycle.

Project Overview

iconProject Name: Namene Solar Light Company: Replacing Kerosene lights and paraffin candles by solar lights in Namibia
iconProject Kind: Carbon Offsetting
iconProject Type: Renewable Energy - Solar Lighting
iconProject Type from Registry: Solar Thermal - Electricity
iconProject Developer: Namene Solar Lights Ltd.
iconProject ID: GS7784
iconRegion: Sub-Saharan Africa
iconCountry: Namibia

Project Details

iconYear:2022
iconRegistry:Gold Standard (VER)
iconMechanism:Reduction
iconFirst Year of Project (Vintage):2022
iconEst Annual Credits:29985
iconCorsia eligable:No
iconMethodology:AMS-III.AR. Substituting fossil fuel based lighting with LED/CFL lighting systems

Sustainable Development Goals

    • check icon SDG 1: No Poverty
    • check icon SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
    • check icon SDG 13: Climate Action

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