FORMER INITIATIVE
An estimated 58 percent of Myanmar’s population, approximately 30 million people, lack access to electricity
Power Asia
FORMER INITIATIVE
Promoting partnerships to spur greater investment in low-income communities across the country
U.S. Economic Opportunity U.S. and the Americas
FORMER INITIATIVE
In a country of 1.3 billion people, the lack of access to affordable, reliable electricity across many rural communities in India requires a partnership to match the scale and scope of the challenge
Power Asia
FORMER INITIATIVE
Despite the enormous progress made in the past few years, millions of people in India continue to have insufficient and unreliable access to electricity
Power Asia
CURRENT INITIATIVE
Improving the quality of data and availability of technology solutions to advance the energy transition in low-and-middle-income countries
Power Asia
Feb 24 2020
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Suman Sureshbabu shares how our Power Initiative hopes to be at the forefront of catalyzing an off-grid revolution, creating #ImpactThroughInnovation by scaling up new technologies and business models.
Awarded Aug 09-2019
in support of developing an innovation lab to assess the viability of mini-grid models to support energy service companies to accelerate energy access for poor and vulnerable people in rural areas in Africa
$798,941
Awarded Nov 21-2018
toward the costs of creating a new energy consumption metric that better captures energy’s role in economic transformation and helps to translate research into policy to support more effective and increased energy provision for economic growth
$750,000
Awarded Nov 28-2018
toward the costs of a feasibility study for a new model of energy company in Nigeria that would provide universal energy access through a combination of on- and off-grid solutions
$500,000
Nov 30 2017
We accelerate access to and consumption of reliable, renewable electricity in underserved, low-income communities worldwide, empowering hundreds of millions of people while building the climate-smart energy system of the future