LUMINA PROJECT ACTIVITIES

• Market creation:
  • A World Bank / International Finance Corporation market-based initiative to promote the creation of markets for off-grid alternatives to fuel-based lighting across sub-Saharan Africa. Funded by the Global Environment Facility and others.
    
    
• Field research and demonstrations involving LED systems:
  • Sauri, Kenya (one of the Millennium Villages) [report]
  • Tibet, China (led by students from UC Berkeley under UNIDO program) [report]
  • Kutch, India (led by students from UC Berkeley under UNIDO program) [report 1 report 2 | presentation]
    
    
• Product quality and performance testing: Ongoing assessments and World Bank workshop to identify best practices and assist entrepreneurs, manufacturers, policymakers, and project developers in avoiding market spoiling caused by the introduction of inferior products.
  
  
• Baseline data gathering of off-grid lighting energy use and costs, as well as user-acceptance of alternatives: Participate by contributing your data which we then pool with with consistently obtained information from all regions of the world. Results available to all entities interested in developing this market.
  
  
• Instruction/Mentoring in University courses: Stanford and UC Berkeley.
  
  
• Library (including work of groups not affiliated with the Lumina Project)

PUBLICATIONS

• "The Specter of Fuel-Based Lighting." Published in the journal SCIENCE (2005)
• Other works here
  

Overview Presentation (.pdf). Other presentations here.
Photographs from Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Vietnam

SPONSORS

• The Rosenfeld Fund of the Blum Center for Developing Economies at UC Berkeley
  
• Global Roundtable on Climate Change
• UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization
• International Finance Corporation
• World Bank

COLLABORATORS

• Arthur Rosenfeld, California Energy Commission
  
• George Scharffenberger, U.C. Berkeley
• California Lighting Technology Center, University of California Davis
• Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University Earth Institute
• MOT/UNIDO Student Grantees, UC Berkeley, Haas Business School
  (students from Haas, Materials Science, Engineering, and Energy and Resources)
• Stanford University, Social Entrepreneurship Startup
• Private Sector: a diversity of entrepreneurs developing new products & businesses
  

PRODUCTS