The report has 5 questions:
- Why is electricity access key to achieve the Global Goals for Sustainable Development from the United Nations?
- What is the status of electricity access?
- What are the challenges + drivers of transformative electricity access?
- Why is it important to explore co-operation between access, renewable energy, and energy efficiency?
- What are the new, innovative business + delivery models?
The key findings are:
- Urgent actions need to speed-up access to modern energy services or there will still be several countries in 2030 — mostly in sub-Saharan Africa — with a significant percent of the population going without electricity.
- 1 billion people in sub-Saharan Africa may gain electricity access by 2040 — but an estimated 530 million will still not have electricity access due to population growth.
- In countries with low levels of electricity access — 1. on-grid solutions: traditional power lines 2. off-grid solutions: solar mini, micro grids — are vital for universal access. But they have to be supported by proper institutions, policies, strategic planning, regulations, and incentives.
- The good news is lower costs for renewable energy tech like solar, adequate energy efficiency measures, and innovation can help countries. The private sector can finance interventions, assuming there are incentives for investors to earn returns on their investments.
- Energy is linked to every other critical sustainable development challenge — health, education, food security, gender equality, poverty reduction, employment, and climate change. Meeting universal electricity access is essential to reaching other Global Goals for Sustainable Development from the United Nations.
- Innovative energy service delivery mechanisms offer new private sector off-grid electricity — but only if countries can help them replicate and scale-up.
* SDG is the Global Goals for Sustainable Development from the United Nations
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