… 217,000 mini-grids (up from the existing 21,500) and cost about US$127 billion. Power for all, not the few The energy access narrative … number of end users and lower population densities. Examples from the US and Liberia During the Great Depression in the 1930s, rural … using an electrification model that delivered electricity at 59% of the cost estimated by private utilities . In sub-Saharan Africa, …