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Over 1 billion people do not have access to clean and affordable energy. This means that medical clinics are often dark at night when crucial medical work has to be done, cooking fuels create indoor air pollution (a larger killer than malaria and AIDS combined), children have difficulty studying after dark, and an incredible amount of time and money is spent collecting meager energy sources such as wood or kerosene.
To combat global energy poverty, Dr. Jatin Nathwani from the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and Dr. Joachim Knebel from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany set up Affordable Energy for Humanity, a global change initiative comprising over 50 energy access institutions from 30 countries around the world. Since AE4H’s inception in 2015, its members have been collaborating to innovate and test aspects of solutions to energy poverty.
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