This decade, 1.2 billion young people will reach working age. But current trends suggest the world will create only 420 million jobs. In emerging economies, small businesses – farmers, young entrepreneurs, women-led enterprises – form the backbone of job creation and economic growth. But even as energy access expands, high costs, unreliable supply and lack of tools and resources prevent many from turning that access into jobs and opportunity.

Reliable, abundant and affordable energy is the economic bedrock of thriving communities and economies. But access to energy is just the beginning. Powering Opportunity is about what people do with it. When energy is embedded in industry and paired with tools, training, finance and market access, it can help address the global jobs crisis, power development and improve millions of lives.

This is how infrastructure becomes economically viable, markets become self-sustaining, energy powers opportunity and lasting change takes hold.