Namene Solar Light Company: Solar Lighting Project Zambia 1

To eradicate the use of high cost, dangerous and GHG emitting kerosene lamps and paraffin candles, the Namene Solar Light Company Programme of Activities aims to distribute Lighting Global certified, pico-solar lights (the SM100) to households across Africa. 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 households in rural Africa.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. A quote from a stakeholder, a Headteacher from a school near Mongu, Western Province – “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