Energy for Prosperity
Primary tabs
Contacts
Matthew Cullinen
senior director, renewable energy
mcullinen@pactworld.org
Richard Harrison
ceo, smart power myanmar
richard@smartpowermyanmar.org
To electrify Myanmar, build the grid from the outside in
June 19, 2019
In this Forbes article, learn how Smart Power Myanmar, implemented by Pact, is rethinking rural electrification in Myanmar to end energy poverty.
New market analysis shows high potential for sustainable, successful mini-grid solutions for electrifying Myanmar
June 3, 2019
As part of ongoing efforts to bring electricity to every household and business in Myanmar, Smart Power Myanmar, a national platform with a mandate to advance a modern energy ecosystem in country,...
Ahlin Yaung: Lighting a path to prosperity and development
December 6, 2018
U Kyaw Htay, a villager in Myanmar’s Myeik township, Tanintharyi Region, used to only do business when the sun was up.
With his wife, he runs a small café shop that caters to his neighbors in Ashae...
Ending energy poverty: An interview with Pact's Matthew Cullinen
August 21, 2018
For years, Pact has worked with rural communities in Myanmar to improve their lives. With its partners, the organization has helped villages make dramatic change in areas including health, water and...
The next phase of rural electrification in Myanmar
June 26, 2018
How do you provide a service when neither the provider nor the customer has a good sense of the demand? This is one of the main challenges facing the off-grid energy industry in Myanmar, a country...
Pact launches Energy for Prosperity, a global initiative to improve energy access in developing communities
May 2, 2018
Today, Pact announced the launch of a new global initiative called Energy for Prosperity (E4P) to improve energy access in low- and middle-income communities as part of the organization’s integrated...
With renewable energy, building prosperity in rural Myanmar
April 29, 2018
Sein Win May has spent more than her share of time in the dark.
At 51, she has lived her whole life in Shin Hla, a remote village of about 600 people in Myanmar’s Dry Zone that is accessible only by...
The dark secret powering your cell phone
September 20, 2017
This post originally appeared on the World Economic Forum's website.
As I stood in New York’s Penn Station on Sunday, commuters in suits and tourists wearing I Love New York T-shirts waited for...
Major push to end the hidden human toll and pollution behind smartphone and electric car batteries
September 19, 2017
Businesses, international organizations and NGOs have joined forces to end child labour, hazardous working conditions, pollution and the environmental damage behind the booming trade in batteries for...