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