Why is electricity essential for business?

• Electricity access is needed for infrastructure services, to power essential operations like machinery, lighting, etc. and without a reliable electricity supply, small growing businesses may face economic losses.

  
  

  Chad's dire situation regarding electricity

• For example, in Chad, businesses reported a value loss of 9.8% of total sales due to power outages in 2018, according to World Bank Enterprise Survey data.

  
  

  Ways to overcome this issue

• In order to overcome this issue, the government should invest in renewable and sustainable energy to develop Chad as a whole, and as well as its economy.

  
  

  https://subnational.doingbusiness.org/en/data/exploretopics/getting-electricity/why-matters - World Bank

The supply is struggling to keep up with the growing demand for power

• Supply and Demand are imbalanced.

  
  

Why is electricity important for healthcare?

Reliable energy provision – particularly electricity – is a major enabler of universal health coverage.

• Needed to power the most basic services in healthcare facilities:

  • From lighting and communication to clean water supply,

• Crucial for the medical equipment necessary:

  • To safely manage childbirth or to ensure immunization,

  • Undertaking most of the routine and emergency procedures,

• Essential for refrigerating vaccines:

  • Lessens the risk of bacterial growth within the vaccine.

Electricity (shortage) Effects on Health 

• Food storage get spoiled because electricity shortage 

• Cardiorespiratory hospitalizations

• Increase in carbon monoxide poisoning because people use generators incorrectly

• Increase in anxiety, stress, and reduced well-being

  
  

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electricity-in-health-care-facilities#:~:text=Electricity%20is%20needed%20to%20power%20the%20most%20basic%20services%20in,communications%20to%20clean%20water%20supply. 

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Why-do-Vaccines-need-to-be-Refrigerated.aspx#:~:text=When%20thawing%2C%20the%20recrystallization%20process,bacterial%20growth%20within%20the%20vaccine.

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/11/nx-s1-5256441/la-fires-palisades-power-outage#:~:text=%22We%20see%20increases%20in%20cardiorespiratory,outages%20started%2C%22%20Casey%20says

• Energy poverty causes complicated work for staff and school administration.

• Energy poverty discourages teachers from working in areas without access to electricity.

• Energy poverty reduces the amount of time that children will want to spend in school.

• Energy poverty will affect the student's learning and studying abilities which will affect their grades.

• South Sudan is a country with a 8.4% electricity access, this directly affects their education which affects the betterment of their country.

• Rural schools use artificial light to provide classes during cloudy days or at night and for staff/student quarters. Other than schools further need electricity to use computers for administrative purposes and also for other electrical appliances such as printers, TV, printers, and microscopes.

https://childrenfirstamerica.org/how-power-outages-impact-education/

• No electricity means no usage of electric vehicles and therefore we cannot reduce carbon emissions that are harming the world.

• Electricity is important as it reduces greenhouse gas emission and air pollution by reducing fuel power vehicles and replacing it with EVs.

  
  

• Electronic Vehicles, which are more globally used now a-days would not be able to charge, making people use fuel powered vehicles more resulting in increasing carbon emissions and causing air pollution.

-Improves quality of life

-Allows the use of household appliances (refrigerators, fans, televisions, heaters, ac).

-Gives the family access to the internet.

-Improves safety and security.

-Provides comfort.

-powers the house (i.e. lights, LEDs)

-enables us to be able to cook, clean, and enjoy entertainments

-efficiency

-no access to clean running water

-access to technology (i.e PCs, laptop, WiFi)