Deadline: 15-Mar-22
Applications are now open for the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet that will accelerate and scale equitable energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries serving as an onramp to opportunity for 1 billion people, while averting carbon emissions, expanding energy access and creating jobs in the process.
The alliance seeks to partner with countries to build Transformational National Programs that will unleash a robust pipeline of projects that can be aggregated, replicated, and scaled in order to truly move the needle on their shared ambitions.
The alliance invites respondents to propose transformational programs that will activate equitable energy transitions and request the support they need to advance these.
The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet is focused on three types of renewable energy projects that will create green jobs, enable the productive use of power for low-income communities and promote gender equity. Their three renewable energy pillars include:
- Fossil Fuel Transitioning: Decommission and repurpose large aging coal plants and installed diesel / heavy fuel oil assets
- Grid-based Renewables: Deploy utility-scale renewable generation, storage, distribution, and transmission
- Distributed Renewable Energy: Scale mini-grid and roof-top solutions to off-grid and underserved communities
Approaches
Together with partners around the world they create holistic ecosystems around their three pillars of renewable energy solutions. They work to:
- Source head-of-state commitment to embed country-led actions.
- Identify and shape concrete opportunities for national transformational programs.
- Deliver deep, flexible technical support for policy, and regulatory, and project development.
- Aggregate public and private capital to finance programs at scale.
- Provide hands-on execution and tracking support to ensure rapid delivery.
- Monitor results and share outcomes and learning.
- Drive global innovations in policy, data, finance and technology for replication and scale.
Support Areas
- Integrated Planning
- Policy & regulatory support
- Data infrastructure
- Project preparation, development, and financing
- Capacity building
- Jobs and livelihoods development
Eligibility Criteria
All developing and emerging countries are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to countries which fit one or more of the following criteria:
- The country faces barriers to achieving universal access to electricity, and therefore less than 100% of the population is electrified
- The country does not meet the Modern Energy Minimum threshold of 1,000kWh per person per annum
- The country has unreliable access to energy, meaning the country experiences grid outages and disruptions of more than 12 hours per month on average
- The country is lower or lower-middle income and has a significant amount of existing and/or planned coal plants
For more information, visit https://www.globalenergyalliance.org/#the-opportunity