Despite decades of efforts by governments and NGOs, around 675 million people in the world today still live with no access to electricity, 2.3 billion people have no access to clean cooking solutions, and 3 billion live with energy poverty so severe that it impacts their lives and livelihood. Climate change and new technologies, such as solar and EVs, could widen the gap between haves and have-nots even more. However, 21st-century technologies also hold the promise of scalable solutions to abundant energy that are clean, affordable, and equitable.
We are looking for passionate, enthusiastic, and talented people and teams to come together and develop effective, scalable solutions to energy access.
You can participate in EBL 2025 – a global biennial competition on Energy Access, and become part of creating transformative solutions. These solutions need to build on technical, business, and regional know-how and should propose, demonstrate, field-test, and validate their solutions – thus reducing technical and market risk and accelerating time to scale and impact. Innovation can be in any area, including technology, business model, or use of novel social networking aspects to get to scale and impact quickly.
To learn more about the competition, go to www.empowerabillionlives.org
