Part I

The 2020 edition of Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report that monitors and assesses attainments in the global quest for universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030 is out. The reports says, “Although the world continues to advance toward SDG 7, its efforts fall well short of the scale required to reach the goal by 2030 with a disturbing figure of 789 million people still without access to electricity and 3 billion people without access to clean cooking fuels(2018)”.

If as such is the global reality, what does the statistic show for Ethiopia specifically?

A helicopter view of the report clearly shows that Ethiopia is one of the 20 countries with the largest access deficit, the share of the population having access to electricity still at 45%, and only less than 5% of the population having access to clean fuels, as of 2018.

In population terms, close to 60 million Ethiopians are without access to electricity and almost 98 million people remain without access to clean fuels in the same year and it is the very reason that accelerated investment is needed in the energy sector. 

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