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2011
• Peter Aldemann and his daughter Catherine founded Fosera, a German company manufacturing of plug
and play solar home systems. and other products for the off-grid market. Catherine Aldemann is the
current CEO of the company.
• Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the Sustainable Energy for All initiative
(SEforALL). Today an independent organization, SEforALL’s is an international organization working
with leaders in government, the private sector and civil society to drive further, faster action toward
achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for universal access to sustainable
energy by 2030.
2012
• The Global Off Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA) is established. GOGLA is the global association for
the off-grid solar energy industry. GOGLA now represents over 180 members as a neutral, independent,
not-for-profit industry association. Their services assist the industry in building sustainable markets and
profitable businesses delivering quality, affordable off-grid electricity products and services to as many
customers as possible across the developing world. GOGLA industry members are those involved in
companies/businesses whose main income is generated from the sale of off-grid lighting and electricity
products or services.
• The IFC launches Lighting Asia with a report on the off grid solar lighting market for seven Asian
countries. The overall program becomes known as Lighting Global with Lighting Africa and Lighting Asia
being regional programs. Lighting Global’s quality assurance program tests off-grid lighting products
while also providing business support to companies who sell products that meet the quality standards.
These standards have been adopted as IEC international standards. Lighting Global maintains a website
database listing all the approved products, allowing consumers and resellers to confirm that the product
they are buying has been tested and found to meet the Quality Standards.

2015
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were adopted by all United Nations Member States as
a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and
prosperity by 2030. Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) calls for universal access to sustainable
energy by 2030.
• In order to monitor the progress towards SDG7, the World Bank/ESMAP and the International Energy
Agency led a consortium of 23 international agencies to establish the SE4All Global Tracking Framework
(GTF) which describes how to measure baseline and progress towards the SE4All goals by gathering
energy data regularly. This led to measuring energy access in the tiers as identified in the following table.
Tiers 1, 2, and 3 can include many of the SHS’s on the market.

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