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The Global LEAP Awards
Global
LEAP
Lighting and Energy Access Partnership
Identifying the World’s Best Off-Grid Appliances
A Major Emerging Commercial Opportunity The global market for off-grid appliances is poised for rapid, significant growth. By 2020, the market for three of the most promising off-grid appliances - fans, televisions, and refrigerators has the potential to reach $4.7B per year. The Next Phase of the Off-Grid Market
The Global LEAP Awards
Globally, 1.2 billion people live without access to electricity, and another billion have unreliable access. A vibrant market has emerged for off-grid lighting products and clean energy systems, providing modern energy services to underserved communities around the world. Appliances like fans, televisions, and refrigerators represent the next phase of this market and have the potential to unlock significant additional growth.
The Global LEAP Awards is an international competition to identify and promote the world’s best off-grid appliances, accelerating market development and innovation.
Off-grid appliances – if appropriately designed and priced – can unlock a wide range of energy services, providing off-grid households and businesses access to modern communications, cooling, and more for the first time. High-quality, energy-efficient appliances ensure that un- and under-electrified households and businesses can make the most out of off-grid energy. They are also essential to the growth of off-grid clean energy markets— they create demand for off-grid energy systems, and reduce costs and risks for consumers and businesses.
Fans
Televisions
Refrigerators
By providing the off-grid marketplace clear and actionable signals about the quality and energy performance of off-grid appliances, the Global LEAP Awards enable companies, investors, and policymakers to make faster, better-informed decisions. The 2016-17 Global LEAP Awards will identify superefficient, high quality off-grid fans, televisions, and refrigerators. Eligible appliances nominated for the Global LEAP Awards will be evaluated on their affordability, quality and durability, and energy efficiency. Finalists will be tested in accredited test laboratories according to internationallyaccepted test methods, and Winners will be identified by a panel of expert judges. The products recognized by the Global LEAP Awards offer a strong balance of price, energy efficiency, performance, and reliability. Manufacturers and distributors of eligible off-grid fans, TVs, and refrigerators are encouraged to nominate products at GlobalLEAP.org/Awards.
Nominating products is quick, easy, and free. Nominate eligible products by 20 January 2017.
The Global LEAP Awards Benefits to Winners and Finalists •
Global LEAP Awards Winners and Finalists are eligible to participate in an affiliated Global LEAP procurement incentives program. This program is designed to drive large-scale procurement and distribution of best-in-class off-grid appliances in key off-grid markets. See further details about this program: GlobalLEAP.org/incentives.
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Participants in the Global LEAP Off-Grid Refrigerator Competition will be considered for three $200,000 Innovation Prizes. These cash prizes will be awarded to products that demonstrate market leading innovation in energy efficiency, off-grid appropriateness, and overall value. See further details about this program: GlobalLEAP.org/Refrigerators.
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Acumen and Shell Foundation will consider Global LEAP Awards Winners and Finalists as they work to identify breakthrough innovations and impact investment opportunities in off-grid appliance enterprises.
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Winners & Finalists will also be eligible to use the Global LEAP Awards logo and brand, and participate in a global promotional campaign including publicity and networking opportunities with distributors and investors.
Impacts Off-Grid Energy Companies and Distributors can more easily identify and procure superefficient, high-quality off-grid appliances
Appliance Manufacturers can differentiate their products in the marketplace and increase sales through Global LEAP’s global marketing campaign
The Global Off-Grid Marketplace will benefit from clearer information about appliance quality and efficiency, features that help the market grow
Investors can identify the most promising companies in an early-stage, dynamic global market
Timeline
Winners Announced May 2017
Nominations Close 20 January 2017
Product Testing February April 2017
Nominations Close 20 January 2017 Nov
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Awards and Innovation Prize Winners Announced*
Final Innovation Prize Winner Announced**
August 2017
Jan 2018
Product Testing
Field Testing*
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* Laboratory testing will determine the overall winners of the Global LEAP Awards and the winners of the innovation prizes for overall value and energy efficiency will be based on laboratory test results ** Field testing will determine the winner of the final innovation prize for user experience
Contact GlobalLEAP.org
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CLASP serves as Operating Agent for the Global LEAP Awards and manages several Global LEAP off-grid appliance market development activities.
@GlobalLEAPaward
Accelerating the Transition to Clean Energy Technologies
The Global LEAP Awards is an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial’s Global Lighting and Energy Access Partnership, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. The Global LEAP Awards Off-Grid Refrigerator Competition is supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Scaling Off-Grid Energy: A Grand Challenge for Development initiative, the U.K. Department for International Development’s Ideas to Impact Programme, Power Africa’s Beyond the Grid initiative, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The Global LEAP procurement incentives program is funded by the US Department of Energy through the Clean Energy Ministerial, Power Africa, and by the Results Based Financing Facility through Energising Development (EnDev).
