According to its 2025 impact report, the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet is on track to reduce 952 million tonnes of carbon emissions and increase access to clean energy for around 240 million people through projects that are under design, deployed, and ready for deployment.

Since its founding four years ago, the partnership has helped 10 million people gain access to electricity, supported 2 million livelihoods and jobs, and reduced emissions from renewable energy assets by 18 million tonnes. As programmes grow, the organisation anticipates much larger cumulative benefits from its pipeline of 188 projects.

Awards of $503 million have been paid out, which has opened up $7.8 billion in new funding. According to the research, catalytic capital was crucial in encouraging private investors, philanthropies, and multilateral lenders to invest in higher-risk early phases.

According to GEAPP CEO Woochong Um, the work shows systemic impact. “Projects like the one in New Delhi demonstrate that we can overcome obstacles and create long-lasting, systemic impact when we bring together the appropriate stakeholders from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors,” he said. Ten million people have obtained new or better access, and 18 million tonnes of carbon emissions are anticipated to be avoided if only initiatives that have already been deployed are taken into account. These figures increase to 91 million individuals and 296 million tonnes of avoided emissions when deployment-ready projects are taken into account.

With programmes in place to bridge the continent’s enormous energy access gap, where 600 million people lack electricity, Africa got the greatest share of prizes by region, accounting for $254 million, or 51% of the total. With the support of $50 billion in catalytic capital, the ambitious “Mission 300” effort seeks to connect 300 million Africans by 2030.

In order to improve grid stability in India—which is still limited by antiquated infrastructure and unreliable distribution companies—GEAPP is promoting distributed renewables and battery storage.

While partnerships in Latin America focus on last-mile electrification and climate shock resilience, the alliance is supporting coal retirement plans and battery storage pilots in Vietnam and Indonesia in Southeast Asia. The report also emphasised the advancements made in the development of jobs. It is anticipated that 3.1 million more employments and livelihoods will be supported by projects that have been deployed and are prepared for launch. That figure increases to around 5 million if the projects that are being designed are completed.

According to Tulika Narayan, chief impact officer for GEAPP, the alliance gauges its success through systemic change as well as direct project outcomes. “Our approach to change focuses on tackling underlying issues rather than merely implementing discrete initiatives,” she stated. “We examine how markets, institutions, and policies change to allow for broader impact.”

To verify GEAPP’s contributions, external assessors conducted surveys with 47 stakeholders and conducted interviews with 35 of them. In several situations, the study evaluated its involvement as “pivotal”, particularly in terms of opening up new project pipelines and securing funding. But there are still difficulties. High funding costs, disjointed planning, and poor transmission are impeding development in Africa. Coordination issues have caused India’s agricultural solarisation to lag. Systems in Latin America are vulnerable to drought because of an excessive dependence on hydropower. Southeast Asia is still struggling with subsidies for fossil fuels and its reliance on coal.

GEAPP has backed distributed renewable energy pilots, coal plant retirement plans, and battery storage roadmaps in order to remove these obstacles. The first grid-scale battery storage is being funded in Malawi in an effort to boost renewable energy sources and stabilise the brittle infrastructure. Mesh grids have been installed in Haiti to connect isolated communities, while renewable energy training initiatives in South Africa are getting workers ready for just transition routes. The alliance’s goals are still lofty. In the end, it aims to provide access to clean energy for 1 billion people, enhance livelihoods for 150 million, and prevent 4 billion tonnes of carbon emissions.

Its leaders emphasised that sustained cooperation will be necessary to accomplish those objectives. “When all of the value chain’s components are working together, it drives investments, upskills workers, gets past financial and regulatory obstacles, and transforms entire energy systems,” Um stated.

The necessity of long-term collaborations was reiterated by Narayan. “When we strengthen markets, anchor transitions in local communities, and build institutions, systemic impact occurs,” she stated.

The 2025 report emphasises how the shift to sustainable energy may be accelerated by combining technical know-how, political will, and catalytic funding. However, it also makes it evident that progress may halt in the absence of consistent investment and reforms.