Among the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic is the need to provide testing in regions with little to no access to an electrical grid. The most common approach for COVID-19 diagnostic testing involves collecting...
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Schatz Center
5/7 webinar: IEC quality standards for pico-solar products & SHS kits
View the webinar recording and download a followup Q&A Over the past 10 years, the off-grid energy access team at the Schatz Center has worked with the World Bank Group, CLASP, and a broad range of stakeholders to...
Meg Harper
4/24 webinar: Innovations of the Redwood Coast Airport microgrid
View the webinar recording On Friday, April 24 @ noon (Pacific), the California Community Choice Association will launch a new monthly webinar series. This opening event will explore innovations developed for the...
The 2020 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report from Lighting Global
Since 2009, the Schatz Center has worked closely with the World Bank’s Lighting Global initiatives to increase energy access worldwide by improving the quality assurance of solar products. Every two years...
Maia Cheli
Join us at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo
Join us in Nairobi on February 18-20, for the annual Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo. Five members of the Schatz Center’s off-grid team will be participating in the conference: Arne Jacobson, Nicholas Lam...
Yurok Tribe celebrates new solar array in Tulley Creek
On December 19, the Yurok Tribe celebrated the installation of a new, 28 kW solar photovoltaic system on the Tulley Creek Transportation Building, and announced plans to install a second, 24 kW system on the Tulley...
Webinar (11/14): lighting needs in humanitarian settings
On Thursday, November 14, staff from Lighting Global will participate in a webinar on Sustainable Energy for Powering Household and Community Lighting Needs in Humanitarian Settings. This is the third of a four-part...
Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid provided critical services during power shutoff
Climate change is challenging our communities to redesign how we meet basic needs. Our specific mission at the Schatz Center is to increase energy access and reliability while shifting power generation to clean and...
Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid battery expansion
The Blue Lake Rancheria’s main campus microgrid currently has a 500 kW battery system with an energy storage capacity of 950 kWh. We are in the process of integrating a new 634 kW / 1,014 kWh battery storage system into...
Solar+ systems and wildfire solutions
The Solar+ project at the Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) is fast approaching completion. This summer, we are working closely with the BLR and with our project partners at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to connect the...
Peter Alstone
Off-grid conferences in Amsterdam
On June 17-18, Arne Jacobson and Kim Thorpe, along with colleagues from CLASP, represented the Lighting Global Quality Assurance team at the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association’s (GOGLA) annual member conference in...
Clean energy for healthcare
In April, Arne Jacobson and Meg Harper attended the United Nations Foundation (UNF) Clean Energy for Healthcare conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Arne and Meg presented interim findings from our QA for Public Facilities...
