Energy brings countless benefits to human life.
Energy facilitates heating and cooling, lighting, communications, health, food, education, industrial production, and transportation. Unfortunately, these benefits have yet to reach more than two billion people around the world. Rural women suffer most from lack of access to electricity. In Africa, for example, it is estimated that many women spend up to six hours each day manually milling grain. Through electrification, the same task could be completed in a fraction of the time enabling women to devote more time to education, childcare, or entrepreneurial activities.