Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2022

Abstract

The 1.2 billion people living without access to the power grid spend about $27 billion annually on lighting and mobile-phone charging with Kerosene, candels, batter torches or other fossil-fuel powered stopgap technoogies. Solar-powered portabable lights and home kits offer a better service at lower cost. This report takes stock of what the merging off-grid solar indsutry has achived, looks at the opportunities and challenges facing the sector and assesses the potnetial of off-grid solar to help achieve universal electricity access.