Brazil and Global Energy Alliance advance clean energy solutions to power livelihoods across the Amazon

Manaus, Brazil | 10-11 February, 2026 – At the Second Energies of the Amazon Conference held in Manaus, Brazil, the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) and the Global Energy Alliance in partnership with the Sustainable Amazon Foundation, convened government leaders, development partners, regulators, and civil society organizations to share results from Brazil’s Energies of the Amazon Program and projects underway to inform strategies to rapidly scale clean, reliable energy across isolated Amazon communities.

“The Energies of the Amazon Program reflects Brazil’s commitment to ensuring that no one is left behind in the energy transition,” said Karina Araujo Sousa, Director of Energy Transition at Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy. “We have an opportunity to work with the Global Energy Alliance to ensure clean energy creates economic opportunity, even in the most remote communities. This workshop was a critical moment to take stock of progress and chart the next phase of investment and policy action.”

Across Latin America and the Caribbean, an estimated 17 million people lack access to electricity, while another 60 million experience unreliable service. In the Amazon, geographic isolation and long-standing dependence on diesel generation continue to drive high costs, carbon emissions, and energy insecurity.

“Delivering clean, reliable energy in the Amazon is not a future ambition. It is already underway, and this convening is about accelerating what works,” said Isabel Beltran, Vice President of Latin America and the Caribbean at the Global Energy Alliance. “By bringing together government, regulators, and partners, we are aligning around practical solutions that reduce diesel dependence, lower costs for communities, and put people at the center of the energy transition. The Amazon demands approaches that are locally grounded, resilient, and built to last, and that is exactly what this collaboration is advancing.”

The convening shared results from the Energies of the Amazon Program, Brazil’s flagship initiative, which aims to replace costly and polluting diesel generation in isolated systems serving more than 1.96 million people not connected to the national grid. It also highlighted lessons from the 14 projects with an investment of $829M reais approved under the first Pro-Legal Amazon public notice and the 2025 Isolated Systems (SISOL) Auction, which added 50 MW of capacity to serve approximately 30,000 people in remote locations across Amazonas and Pará.

These efforts show how scaling renewable and hybrid energy solutions can strengthen energy security, improve quality of life, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and advance sustainable development, while embedding productive uses of energy in public policy and translating them into real, income-generating opportunities that safeguard Amazon communities.

Taking place just months after COP30 in Belém, the conference positioned the Energies of the Amazon Program firmly within Brazil’s climate and sustainable development commitments, with outcomes expected to guide future policy and investment decisions and deliver tangible, people-cantered benefits for Amazonian communities.

“Bringing renewable energy to Amazonian communities requires more than technology. It requires listening, dialogue, and joint design with the territories. When solutions are conceived from local realities, the benefits expand and become sustainable long-term for the people and for the development of the region,” says Valcléia Lima, deputy superintendent-general of the Sustainable Amazon Foundation (FAS).

The conference builds on the Global Energy Alliance’s work across Latin America and the Caribbean, where it has committed $37 million and helped unlock $599 million in clean energy financing – supporting projects expected to benefit seven million people and avoid 24 million tons of CO₂ emissions. Through a five-year Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Brazil, signed at COP30, the Alliance is advancing renewable energy, green jobs in remote Amazon communities, and an inclusive energy transition across the region.

About the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet

The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Founded in 2021 by The Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation and Bezos Earth Fund, we work to unlock finance, strengthen institutions and transform markets, delivering progress that goes beyond individual projects to drive lasting systems change. Through our two interconnected global pillars, Grids of the Future – focused on innovation and infrastructure – and Energy and Opportunity – with a focus on jobs and livelihoods – we work toward our vision: a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives.

With work in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, our Alliance aims to reach 1 billion people with clean electricity, prevent 4 billion tons of carbon emissions and create or improve 150 million jobs. For more information, please visit www.energyalliance.org and follow us on X at @EnergyAlliance.

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