The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (Global Energy Alliance) works for a world where everyone has access to affordable, reliable, clean electricity and the means to use it to improve their lives. Our Alliance builds transformative public, private, philanthropic partnerships to end energy poverty and accelerate green economic opportunity. Founded in 2021 by the Rockefeller Foundation, IKEA Foundation, and Bezos Earth Fund, we design innovative projects/programs, unlock finance, strengthen institutions and transform markets, delivering progress anchored in deep community engagement.
Modernizing power grids is the single most critical enabler of the clean‑energy transition in the Global South. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, fragile and underinvested grids are struggling to meet surging demand from urbanization, industry, and power‑hungry sectors like EVs and data centers—while hundreds of millions still lack...