Resources

• Calculate available energy from the sun
• Battery Storage FAQ

Business Planning

• Guidebook for Preparing Technology Transfer Proposals
• REED Toolkit - A Handbook for Energy Entrepreneurs

Books

• Rural Electrification with Photovoltaics, by Sun Transfer
• Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day, by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, and Orlanda Ruthven
• Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid (energy chapter), by C.K. Prahalad
• Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
• IDEO Human Centered Design Toolkit

Articles and Papers

• Solar Energy Foundation: Light for Ethiopia, in Sun & Wind Energy, February 2009
• Sun Energy Empowers Ethiopian Village, BBC News, July 2009
• Attach:Energy and Microfinance Issues and Options.pdf, by Kamal Kapadia and Harish Hande
• Solid-State Lighting on a Shoestring Budget: The Economics of Off-Grid Lighting for Small Businesses in Kenya, from The Lumina Project
• Lighting Africa: Market Research, from Lighting Africa
• Self-reported Impacts of LED Lighting Technology Compared to Fuel-based Lighting on Night Market Business Prosperity in Kenya, from The Lumina Project
• Using Microfinance to Expand Access to Energy
• Top 12 Product Management Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them

Videos

• Solar Energy Foundation Movie: stiftung_solarenergie.mov
• Lighting Africa- World Bank & IFC - Modern Off-Grid Lighting
• Creating solutions - SolarAid
• SELCO, India, Affordable solar power

Related Organizations and Companies

• Arc Finance - sustainable energy and microfinance
• SELCO India - sustainable energy products and services
• E+Co - clean energy investment
• Solar Energy Foundation (Stiftung Solarenergie)/Sun Transfer - NGO+corp for affordable solar products
• Schatz Energy Research Center @ Humboldt State University
• The Lumina Project @ Lawrence Livermore Berkeley Labs
• Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory @ UC Berkeley
• Solar Aid
• Himalayan Light Foundation

Case Studies and Related Products

• Sun Transfer 2 - Solar Lantern with mobile phone charging
• Sun Transfer 1 - very affordable solar lantern
• d.light - Solar Lantern with mobile phone charging
• Philips Woodstove presentation (local mirror) and Satisfying a burning need.pdf
• Ashden Awards Solar Case Studies
• Barefoot Power FIREFLY
• rural electrification with solar home systems in Kwazulu-Natal.zip
• SociaLite Self-assembled Solar Lanterns.zip
• pictures from Maker Faire Africa 2009
• Improved Lighting for Indian Fishing Communities