Design of off-grid lighting business models to serve the poor: Field experiments and structural analysis

• Main Authors: UPPARI, Bhavani Shanker, NETESSINE, Serguei, POPESCU, Ioana, CLARKE, Rowan P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2024
• Subjects: off-grid lighting; rechargeable lamps; developing countries; consumer behavior; operational inefficiencies; inconvenience; liquidity constraints; structural model; low-income regions; field experiments; Rwanda; recharge decisions; business model; revenue; operations-based strategies; price-based strategies; capacity-based strategies; economic variables; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7142; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8141/viewcontent/OffGridLightingBusinessModels.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

A significant proportion of the world’s population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper, we explore consumer behavior a...