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