Let’s Change Energy for Good
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet will accelerate and scale equitable energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries serving as an onramp to opportunity for 1 billion people, while averting carbon emissions, expanding energy access and creating jobs in the process.
The Opportunity
People can’t live on a depleted and polluted planet. The urgent need for modern electricity and more jobs comes at the same time humanity must unite to address the climate crisis before the devastation of global warming becomes irreversible.
Today, nearly half the world’s population still lacks access to reliable power, preventing families, farmers and entrepreneurs from securing their livelihoods and communities from accessing modern healthcare and education. Now, for the first time in history, the frontiers of energy technology can give people the electric power they need to join the global economy, creating jobs while also reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet mission:
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1 billion
people empowered with clean, renewable energy by 2030
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4 billion
tons of greenhouse gas emissions avoided and averted
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150 million
green jobs created that generate inclusive economic growth
Our Focus on Renewable Energy Solutions
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet is focused on three types of renewable energy projects that will create green jobs, enable the productive use of power for low-income communities and promote gender equity. Our three renewable energy pillars include:
- Fossil Fuel Transitioning Decommission and repurpose large aging coal plants and installed diesel / heavy fuel oil assets
- Grid-based Renewables Deploy utility-scale renewable generation, storage, distribution, and transmission
- Distributed Renewable Energy Scale mini-grid and roof-top solutions to off-grid and underserved communities
Our Approach
Together with partners around the world we create holistic ecosystems around our three pillars of renewable energy solutions. We work to:
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Source head-of-state commitment
to embed country-led actions.
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Identify and shape concrete opportunities
for national transformational energy programs.
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Deliver deep, flexible technical support
for policy, and regulatory, and project development.
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Aggregate public and private capital
to finance programs at scale.
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Provide hands-on execution
and tracking support to ensure rapid delivery.
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Monitor results
Monitor results and share outcomes and learning.
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Drive global innovations
in policy, data, finance and technology for replication and scale.
National Transformational Energy Programs: First Five Examples
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Scaling Metro-grid Electrification
Challenge: The DRC is one of the largest countries in Africa, where 85% of people lack access to energy, over 50M people live more than 15KM away from the grid, and 73% live on less than $2 a day.
Our Goals: Work with a consortium of alliance partners to develop and finance renewable energy ‘metro grids’ in 25+ cities, through funding feasibility studies for expansion cities, providing grant financing to increase the viability of these projects, and helping to aggregate the $1B in concessional and commercial capital needed.
Intended Impact: Improve energy access for 4 million people and 30,000 businesses in 25+ cities, and avoid 4.6 million metric tons of CO2.
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Indonesia Accelerating the Coal Transition
Challenge: Indonesia is the third largest coal producer, with over 60% of its electricity generation based on coal.
Our Goals: Work with the Asian Development Bank’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) to develop and implement a package to accelerate the closure of at least 10 coal plants and finance replacement renewable energy, by providing grant funding for initial project development and grant subsidies to leverage low cost debt needed.
Intended Impact: Reduce 5.2 GW of coal generation capacity from 10 decommissioned plants, and avoid 620 million tons of CO2 emissions.
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India Bringing Reliable Green Power to Small & Medium Enterprises
Challenge: Despite widespread grid infrastructure, over 300 million people face a highly unreliable energy supply, while 40% of rural business rely on expensive and polluting diesel and consume over 1 Bn liters of diesel per year. If left unaddressed, India will account for a significant portion of annual global emissions by 2050.
Our Goals: Work with Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation, and Tata Power to build the world’s largest rural solar mini grid venture. SPI and alliance partners have already enabled the supply of clean, reliable power to over 500,000 people and 10K enterprises, through 500 mini grids run by 6 companies.
Intended Impact: Deploy 10,000 renewable power mini grids by 2027, connecting 25M people, enabling over 100K local enterprises to increase their productivity and create more jobs, and avoid 1 million tons of CO2 emissions and 57 million liters of diesel annually.
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Nigeria Unleashing DRE Electrification
Challenge: 85 million people in Nigeria lack electricity, which is the highest in the world.
Our Goals: Work to strengthen Nigeria’s Distributed Renewable Energy sector, fund project development and help aggregate public and private financing from the alliance partners to enable (1) scaled solutions to deploy distributed renewables through distribution utilities (2) accelerate the deployment of 5,000 renewable mini grids. Both these efforts will improve power quality for productive use and reduce diesel usage.
Intended Impact: Reach 11.9M people with productive power and avoid 31.7M tons of CO2 annually.
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Ethiopia Unlocking the Agriculture Energy Nexus
Challenge: Ethiopia has the third highest unelectrified population (70M) in the world, with only 10% of agricultural being irrigated, in large part due to a lack of energy.
Our Goals: Develop and execute a transformational distributed renewable energy program with alliance partners to deliver productive use renewable energy to the agricultural sector, leveraging public subsidy programs such as the World Bank’s ADELE to invest in micro grids, agriculture improvements, and much more.
Intended Impact: Increase farmer income by 80%, and improve energy access for over 4.2 million people.
Call for Country Partnerships
Unlocking a robust pipeline of projects that can be replicated and scaled to advance our shared ambitions
At COP26, The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet announced a Call for Country Partnerships (CCP), which offers financial and technical assistance to countries with the vision, commitment, and highest level of leadership to advance national transformational energy programs in distributed renewable energy, grid-based renewables and/or fossil fuel transitioning. The goal is to help countries create pipelines of energy projects that can be aggregated, replicated, and scaled – reducing carbon emissions, expanding energy access, and creating green jobs. These projects should help countries make significant strides towards existing national goals and plans (e.g., Nationally Determined Contributions, Energy Compacts, Integrated Electrification Plans) and attract a range of financing, including from development finance institutions and private capital.
Governments are invited to respond to the alliance’s first Call for Country Partnerships by submitting their Expression of Vision (EV) now until March 15, 2022 to info@energyalliance.org
Detailed guidance on how countries can develop and submit an EV can be downloaded in English, French and Spanish.
The EV is the initial step for countries to participate in the 2022 Call for Country Partnerships. Submitting an EV kicks off a collaborative process with the alliance, in which we jointly explore an energy program, define success, and for those selected, assemble a support package to deliver results.
Call for Country Partnerships
A Visionary Strategic Partnership
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet announced that Simon Harford will join as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer and UNICEF’s Ravi Venkatesan will serve as Board Chair. These key leadership appointments mark a significant milestone for the Alliance.
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Unlocking transformational programs in any given country requires a radically collaborative approach. We bring together stakeholders that would otherwise remain fragmented, and enable transformational programs to flourish.
Types of Partnerships
- Anchor Partners The alliance’s philanthropic partners and donors set our strategic vision, provide risk-tolerant grant capital, and ensure the alliance’s capacity to deliver results on a sustained basis.
- Investment Partners The alliance will work with investment partners to help de-risk blended finance facilities, allowing them to finance a greater number of projects more quickly and to adopt a greater risk profile.
- Delivery Partners The alliance will leverage partner with organizations with expertise from around the world to bring policy, technical and project development capacity to bear and ensure success against our goals.
Current Partners
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CDC Group
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International Finance Corporation
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Inter-American Development Bank
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Power Africa
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RMI
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SEforALL
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USAID
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The Rockefeller Foundation
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Ikea Foundation
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International Solar Alliance
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COP26 Presidency
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Bezos Earth Fund
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World Bank
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Asian Development Bank
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European Investment Bank
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African Development Bank
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US Development Finance Corporation
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IRENA
