The Low-Energy Club

The Low-Energy Club
Sierra Club Report Calls for Universal Electricity Access at 0.15% California Levels

Despite mounting evidence that poor countries will develop and lead high-energy lives, some advocates have focused almost exclusively on low-energy rural electrification as opposed to top-down investments in grid extension, industrialization, and infrastructure. Case in point: the new Sierra Club report “Clean Energy Services For All,” which defines energy access as when the world’s poor consume 0.15 percent of the average Californian each year. Beyond household achievements, the report fails to deal with the implications of the full energy ladder, which is that levels of energy consumption in poor countries will rise 50 to 100 times higher through processes of modernization.
by Alex Trembathhttp://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/the-low-energy-club