Sep 27 2019
Perspective
We cannot end poverty without successfully ending energy poverty. For 140 years, we have had a mindset that energy access means building big power plants and connecting them to grids. …
Jul 15 2019
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Video
Our VR film brings you inside rural Indian villages to experience what can be achieved when farmers, entrepreneurs, shop owners, tailors and families have access to reliable energy.
Jun 26 2019
Perspective
Kin Cho has been selling bottled petrol to passing motorists in central Myanmar for over a decade. Each liter costs roughly $1, and she sells about four on a good …
Jun 04 2019
As part of ongoing efforts to bring electricity to every household and business in Myanmar, Smart Power Myanmar, a national platform with a mandate to advance a modern energy ecosystem, …
Power
May 15 2019
Perspective
This piece first appeared on the World Economic Forum's blog on May 14, 2019, and re-posted here with permission. With almost four years completed since the United Nations adopted the 2030 …
Feb 19 2019
This report is a collaboration between Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP), at the Johns Hopkins School of …
Power
Sep 13 2018
Perspective
This piece is part of our 2018 United Nations General Assembly series. As we approach the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, still more than 1 …
Apr 30 2018
Perspective
An early-morning fresh market in the middle of Salingyi town in Central Myanmar is bustling with farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs coming from surrounding villages to sell assorted agricultural produce and …
Feb 20 2018
Perspective
Every Earth Day, those of us who live in the perpetual glow of electronic devices, screens and city lights are implored to reduce our energy use to soften our carbon …
Feb 12 2018
Speeches
As delivered on Monday, February 12, 2018, at New Delhi, India Thank you very much. I also want to thank my friend and former colleague, Mark White, with Shri Desh Deepak …