Energy
Increasing access to environmentally sound energy to. . .
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“World resources are sufficient to satisfy global demand for energy for the foreseeable future, but challenges remain in the form of environmental problems, political concerns, distribution of resources, and myriad other issues. The United States believes that open markets and new technologies working in concert will help us and other countries meet those challenges together.”
Secretary of State Colin Powell
on Challenges to Energy Security
“The bottom line is that you cannot attack poverty, improve food security, and build economic opportunity in poor countries without energy. You cannot have economic growth without energy, including in the rural areas. I go to the rural areas of the world all the time. I ask, ‘What do you want here? What would change your life in this village more than anything else?’ And they say, ‘We need energy to light our homes and classrooms, to pump water, to make bread, to power our small workshops, to listen to radios, to learn on computers and gain access to the Internet, to refrigerate vaccines in our hospitals…”
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios
on The Role of Energy in Development
Learn more about USAID's role in Energy and Development, and its work in energy sector governance, rural energy services, and urban energy services.
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