Sum­ma­ry: Ener­gy pover­ty, is arguably the most per­va­sive and crip­pling threat soci­ety faces today.

Lack of access impacts sev­er­al bil­lion peo­ple, with imme­di­ate health, edu­ca­tion­al, eco­nom­ic, and social damages.

Fur­ther­more, how this prob­lem is addressed will result in the largest accel­er­ant of glob­al pol­lu­tion, or the largest oppor­tu­ni­ty to piv­ot away from fos­sil-fuels onto the need­ed clean ener­gy path.

While debate exists on the opti­mal path or paths to wean our econ­o­my from fos­sil fuels, there is no ques­tion that tech­ni­cal­ly we have today a suf­fi­cient knowl­edge and tech­no­log­i­cal foun­da­tion to launch and to even com­plete the decarbonisation