An Approach to Powering Unelectrified and Under-Electrified Healthcare Facilities

The document addresses the challenge of unreliable or absent electricity for approximately one billion people in low- and middle-income countries accessing healthcare. It advocates for decentralized renewable energy (DRE), specifically solar photovoltaic (PV) systems with batteries, as a clean and climate-resilient alternative to costly and polluting diesel generators. The text highlights the need for streamlined tools and processes to achieve sustainable, large-scale implementation of these systems and introduces a project lifecycle approach developed by WRI based on work in India and Africa.

• Approximately one billion people in low- and middle-income countries use healthcare facilities that either lack electricity entirely or have unreliable power supplies.
• Decentralized renewable energy (DRE), particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) systems combined with batteries, is identified as a modular, cost-effective, and climate-resilient solution for powering medical equipment and improving healthcare delivery, serving as an alternative to polluting and expensive diesel generators.
• There is a critical requirement to streamline the tools and processes necessary for the sustainable and large-scale implementation of solarization in healthcare facilities, despite existing global commitments.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). An Approach to Powering Unelectrified and Under-Electrified Healthcare Facilities. https://www.wri.org/research/approach-powering-unelectrified-and-under-electrified-healthcare-facilities

Chicago

World Resources Institute. An Approach to Powering Unelectrified and Under-Electrified Healthcare Facilities. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/approach-powering-unelectrified-and-under-electrified-healthcare-facilities.

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendapproach, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{An Approach to Powering Unelectrified and Under-Electrified Healthcare Facilities}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/approach-powering-unelectrified-and-under-electrified-healthcare-facilities}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }