Change energy, change lives
How we drive systems change
It happens when we work with countries to change the policies, markets and institutions that hold clean energy back, creating the conditions for lasting change at scale.
Global Energy Alliance harnesses catalytic capital, technical expertise and deep partnerships to remove barriers, reshape incentives and strengthen institutions so progress continues long after our engagement ends.
We work on both sides of the energy system. Grids of the Future supports the modern, flexible power systems needed to deliver abundant clean energy. Powering Opportunity helps turn that energy into jobs, enterprise and better lives.
This is how energy infrastructure becomes economically viable, markets become self-sustaining, and a pipeline of projects extends across a country, with lessons shared across the world.
Market shaping: Reliable power for a modern economy
By overcoming technological and regulatory hurdles, including setting a tariff nearly 50 percent below previous benchmarks, Kilokari delivered a revenue model and a detailed implementation blueprint at a critical moment in India's clean energy trajectory. As battery prices were falling sharply, it helped unlock a pipeline of 55GW in utility-scale BESS, promising more reliable, more affordable and cleaner energy for millions of people. Knowledge exchanges in both Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean are ensuring lessons from India reach emerging and developing economies across the world. Partly informed by learnings from India, Malawi's first grid-connected BESS, a breakthrough for BESS in Africa, went online in July 2026.
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Policy innovation: Transforming Nigeria’s energy system
In a country where one-in-three people lack electricity, we partnered with the government, distribution companies, regulators and RMI to pilot interconnected mini grids to strengthen the grid. The regulator raised the size limit per site tenfold, to 10MW and the World Bank committed $127 million to scale the model. More than 100 projects are in the pipeline and set to deliver reliable, clean energy to tens of thousands more homes and businesses.The market is now moving on its own: a distribution company with no part in the pilots has opened 9.5MW of its franchise area to developers.
Opening India's utilities to clean tech innovators
The program backs credible early stage clean-tech startups. Utilities set the problem, startups pilot solutions, and the evidence helps utilities justify the adoption to regulators.
Now in its third year, the program has partnered with leading public utilities, engaged more than 600 startups, and unlocked $5 million in equity investments to accelerate India's climate and clean energy ambitions.
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Learn more about our work driving innovation in India
After winning ENTICE in 2023, the energy storage start-up AmpereHour partnered with the power utility BSES Rajdhani Power Limited to deploy one of India's first commercially approved, utility-scale battery storage systems in New Delhi.
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Proving innovative tech in Haiti
Our technical experts worked alongside the government to build a regulatory foundation for off-grid solar systems, signaling to investors that the market opportunity was there. We brought concessional financing and business development skills to support the private sector. Today, 25,000 remote households in Haiti are on track to receive electricity. Mesh grids are now an integral part of Haiti’s national electrification plan and a blueprint for electrifying remote and rural communities across the world, including World Bank funding for mesh grids in Nigeria.
In rural Haiti, rooftop solar systems are connected together in mesh grids – a fast-to-deploy, resilient solution to bring electricity to remote, off-grid communities.
The power of energy for better farming
Our farmer outreach program and digital land-registration tool enabled farmers to bundle contiguous plots of land into sites large enough to attract solar development. More than 530,000 new solar irrigation pumps have been deployed and more than a million farmers now have access to clean energy. Nine additional states are now set to accelerate agri-solarization and a similar program is under design in Nigeria.
The tools that drive Africa’s economy
Our results-based Productive Use Financing Facility (PUFF) supported manufacturers and distributors of productive equipment including water pumps and cold storage units by lowering costs and increasing demand. More than 16,000 pieces of equipment have been distributed to date. The program unlocked 13X in follow-on capital. PUFF 2.0 is now under way in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria. Expansion beyond Africa is planned.
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