Tony Heynen Importantly, when the vaccines reach hospitals and medical centres in PNG, stable electricity will Program Coordinator, Sustainable Energy, be needed to power refrigerators to store the doses before they’re administered to patients. [...] In 2019, about 770 million people globally lived in “energy poverty”, without access to electricity – and the problem has grown worse due to COVID. [...] This will require large scale investment in new generation capacity, and transmission and distribution lines to connect people to the grid. [...] Ultra-cold supply chains were established for the deployment of the Ebola vaccine in Africa in 2013– 14. [...] For instance, at a virtual summit at the height of the pandemic last August, Australia committed to financing a large-scale solar plant in Morobe Province.
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