SDG 710 pp

Energy Everywhere

SDG 7 — Affordable and Clean Energy

Distributed solar-plus-storage is now the cheapest electricity in most of the unelectrified world; the constraint is franchise-grade deployment machinery, not physics or finance.

Key Findings

What the document proves

  1. 01

    Nine ventures achieving universal access at $41 per person-year with blended portfolio IRR of 11–15%

  2. 02

    Swarm microgrid protocol: village units interconnect automatically, forming self-healing regional grids with 99.5% uptime

  3. 03

    Second-life EV battery packs at $38–55/kWh unlock 24/7 solar at diesel-parity or better in every priority geography

  4. 04

    Clean cooking-as-a-service undercuts charcoal by 20–35% in 60 cities — the first time clean has been the cheap option

  5. 05

    A Clean-Watt Unit standard verified by smart meters at $0.35/household/year

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