Endorsement
In 2018 just under a billion people lack access to sustainable energy. Another two billion lack access to reliable energy. Reliable, affordable, and clean energy is essential for sustainable development; that so many live without it constrains progress. Policy matters as never before. With this book, the authors show a pathway to results.
Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative (SEforALL)
From the Publisher
Energy poverty is a persistent but largely invisible affliction affecting the health and well-being of hundreds of millions of women and children. This book does it all, elegantly describing the problem, presenting cases of success and failure, and critically distilling lessons for development practitioners and scholars. It offers the type of fresh thinking and innovative solutions so rarely seen, but oh-so-urgently needed.
Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy, University of Sussex; coauthor of
Climate Change and Global Energy Security and
Global Energy Justice; coeditor of
Energy PovertyGlobal energy poverty is more than just a technical and economic challenge. The authors provide a much-needed political economy perspective in this book and rightly emphasize the important role that the state plays in any solution to this problem.
Hisham Zerriffi, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; author of
Rural Electrification: Strategies for Distributed GenerationIn 2018 just under a billion people lack access to sustainable energy. Another two billion lack access to reliable energy. Reliable, affordable, and clean energy is essential for sustainable development; that so many live without it constrains progress. Policy matters as never before. With this book, the authors show a pathway to results.
Rachel Kyte, Chief Executive Officer and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sustainable Energy for All initiative (SEforALL)