Powering People and Planet 2023

Welcome to our annual impact report.

Explore progress made towards the ambitious goals that the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) was set up to achieve at COP26. This is an evidence-based view designed to offer a frank and honest account of our impact results.

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Powering People and Planet 2023

Welcome to our annual impact report.

Explore progress made towards the ambitious goals that the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP) was set up to achieve at COP26. This is an evidence-based view designed to offer a frank and honest account of our impact results.

Download the Report

Impact at a glance

$442m

Investment to date

$1.07b

USD financial mobilization

43.17

MW installed

147,000

Cumulative tons of CO2E reduced/avoided

1.29 million

People/businesses with new/improved access

605,000

Jobs/livelihoods supported

Our transformative change approach to monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) is key to capturing and strengthening our impact where it counts. Read more about our 2023 impacts.

Enabling The Green Energy Transition

GEAPP is dedicated to advancing the supply and adoption of affordable, green electricity. Currently, our emphasis is on specific sectors, including distributed renewable energy, battery storage systems, and utility scale renewables. These targeted efforts play a pivotal role in addressing energy poverty and facilitating green energy transitions in developing countries.

Zoomed frame highlights two of GEAPP’s priority countries — DRC and Vietnam — having first exceeded 0.5% of renewable energy generation in 2020.

Note: The earliest data point on the graph (plotted as year 1 for Indonesia) is for 1990, while the most recent data shown for all countries is for 2020. Data source: IEA Electricity Information 2022 https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-product/electricity-information

S-Curve of Renewable Energy Generation

Change is not linear, different countries require different solutions. GEAPP’s business model can be illustrated by reference to the ‘S’ curve. It provides a figurative representation of the time taken for technological innovations to reach a tipping point and become widespread. Having a long tail — the lower end of the curve — captures a slow pace of take-up, while a short tail transitioning to an upward curve represents a rapid take-up. Currently, the transition to green energy technologies in our priority countries is characterized by long tails, with the exception of India. The ‘S’ curves illustrate both a global energy transition problem and the market potential GEAPP is seeking to harness.

GEAPP solution led countries

GEAPP priority countries

Where We Work

Our ability to identify endemic challenges, to take calculated risks and to nurture innovation unleash and unblock current barriers to the green energy transition. This has helped informed a shift to focus on fewer, difficult countries, knowing if we get it right here, our ability to scale up to other geographies will be greater. These seven priority countries represent 35 per cent of people without access to electricity globally, and 56 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the world’s low- and middle-income countries.

India

Increasing energy supply reliability — rather than access — is the key challenge facing India; innovation and experimentation will be required to meet it.

GEAPP has moved faster and farther in India than in any other priority country, with nine committed investments, eight at scoping or pipeline stage, with a combined value of $31.89m. To date, GEAPP investments in India have reduced or avoided 102,389 cumulative tons CO2e; provided 831,096 people/businesses with new or improved energy access; supported 597,475 jobs and livelihoods; and (directly & indirectly) mobilized $128m in additional financing.

In the state of Maharashtra, the Alliance has partnered with the government-owned utility MAHAPRIET to launch 500MW of rooftop solar and 500MW of ground-mounted, decentralized solar installation. When completed in the next two years,

the projects will benefit 100,000 farmers and reduce carbon emissions by 400 thousand tons a year. Learn more about our impact in India.

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GEAPP has moved faster and farther in India than in any other priority country, with nine committed investments, eight at scoping or pipeline stage, with a combined value of $31.89m. To date, GEAPP investments in India have reduced or avoided 102,389 cumulative tons CO2e; provided 831,096 people/businesses with new or improved energy access; supported 597,475 jobs and livelihoods; and (directly & indirectly) mobilized $128m in additional financing.

In the state of Maharashtra, the Alliance has partnered with the government-owned utility MAHAPRIET to launch 500MW of rooftop solar and 500MW of ground-mounted, decentralized solar installation. When completed in the next two years,

the projects will benefit 100,000 farmers and reduce carbon emissions by 400 thousand tons a year. Learn more about our impact in India.

2030 Targets

44MT

GHG emissions reduction

41000

Jobs

2.7m

New energy access

$5b

Capital mobilization

2030 Targets

47MT

GHG emissions reduction

5700

Jobs

0

New energy access

$2.1b

Capital mobilization

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Vietnam

A key element of GEAPP’s work in Vietnam is to ensure that battery energy storage systems (BESS) are an integral part of the new JET-P power development plan.

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GEAPP and our partner collaborators USAID, ADB and RMI have provided technical assistance and catalytic capital to enable the country to step past fossil fuel dependence and develop its renewable energy sources. Alliance partners are also providing technical and capacity building support to Vietnam’s new JET-P ministry and to help create the country’s first gender, climate and energy transition initiative to embed gender equality into JET-P programs and projects.
Vietnam’s JET-P envisages an increase in the share of renewables in the national grid from 36 per cent to 47 per cent by 2030, with a commitment to phase out coal by 2040. BESS is vital to enabling the Government of Vietnam to meet its JET-P aspirations to achieve 47 per cent renewable energy mix by 2030. Learn more about our impact in Vietnam.

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Ethiopia

GEAPP is supporting the national government in developing a productive renewable energy sector in support of Ethiopian stallholder farms.

Currently in Ethiopia, there are six committed investments and seven at scoping or pipeline stage, with a combined value of $37.61m.

One of the most advanced is the Distributed Renewable Energy Agricultural Modalities (DREAM) investment, the first private-sector-led initiative aimed at improving irrigation for small farmers, who historically have used diesel generators to power pumps to irrigate their crops. The initiative is a partnership between three Ministries, the Agriculture Transformation Institute, WB, EIB and AfDB.

DREAM is delivering nine pilot projects in government-supported Agricultural Commercialization Clusters that are currently without affordable and reliable irrigation. The initiative has ambitious targets to displace up to 200,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; deliver new or improved electricity access to over 290,000 people; and improve over 60,000 jobs. Projections show the investment may support crop yields increases of between 50 and 250%.

DREAM’s target of 200 mini grids providing water across 2m hectares of farmland by 2030 would become the largest mini grid-powered irrigation system in Africa. Learn more about our impact in Ethiopia.

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Currently in Ethiopia, there are six committed investments and seven at scoping or pipeline stage, with a combined value of $37.61m.

One of the most advanced is the Distributed Renewable Energy Agricultural Modalities (DREAM) investment, the first private-sector-led initiative aimed at improving irrigation for small farmers, who historically have used diesel generators to power pumps to irrigate their crops. The initiative is a partnership between three Ministries, the Agriculture Transformation Institute, WB, EIB and AfDB.

DREAM is delivering nine pilot projects in government-supported Agricultural Commercialization Clusters that are currently without affordable and reliable irrigation. The initiative has ambitious targets to displace up to 200,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; deliver new or improved electricity access to over 290,000 people; and improve over 60,000 jobs. Projections show the investment may support crop yields increases of between 50 and 250%.

DREAM’s target of 200 mini grids providing water across 2m hectares of farmland by 2030 would become the largest mini grid-powered irrigation system in Africa. Learn more about our impact in Ethiopia.

2030 Targets

2MT

GHG emissions reduction

16,000

Jobs

0.15m

New energy access

$0.27b

Capital mobilization