DATABASE
2020 REPORT– ELECTRICITY ACCESS
Link
static1.squarespace.com
Abstract
This report argues that ending energy poverty is the necessary prerequisite to ending poverty itself and that the COVID-19 pandemic has added urgency to the goal of ending energy poverty, highlighting the critical importance of access to electricity in particular, while also threatening to reverse decades of progress and putting hundreds of millions of vulnerable households and businesses at risk. It also suggests that the current crisis presents important opportunities to advance our agenda as governments undertake large investments in economic stimulus and recovery over the months and years ahead. These investments, as the International Energy Agency has pointed out “will shape economic and energy infrastructure for decades to come and will almost certainly determine whether the world has a chance of meeting its long-term energy and climate goals.” Against this backdrop, the quest to achieve universal access to electricity must be pursued with greater vigor than ever, and with an eye to challenges and consequences that will extend well beyond the pandemic. Developing innovative business models for both centralized and distributed energy solutions, deploying those models to attract greater private sector investment and participation, and formulating the policies and regulations needed to sustain progress toward a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous energy future—these have been central themes of our work to date.
Files
