Talks and Workshops

1.7 billion people struggle to meet their basic needs without access to affordable and adequate energy services. A third of the world's people lack access to electricity for basic household and livelihood needs. The world's oldest energy technology, the cooking fire, remains the most widespread fuel-using technology today. Reliance on traditional fuels and technologies, because of time demands and localized air pollution, is a hardship that keeps a large fraction of humanity - particularly women - locked into cycles of poverty, ill-health, and deprivation. By using new LED lamps though, the energy used in a single 100 watt incandescent bulb can effectively light an entire village.