World Bank Group Selects Rensselaer Lighting Research Center To Test LED-Based, Off-Grid Lighting Products in Support of Lighting Africa Program
Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:31
in Mathematics & Economics
The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was recently awarded a World Bank Group contract to perform laboratory testing of LED-based, off-grid lighting products for Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program. Lighting Africa seeks to accelerate the development of commercial off-grid lighting markets in Sub-Saharan Africa to improve access to modern, clean lighting and related energy services for people at the base of the pyramid.