Christopher Neal's Articles

Energy for All by 2030: Time to Act

If an emerging coalition to build a sustainable energy future succeeds in achieving its goals, "everyone in the world will have access to electricity," World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim told members of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative's...

Plugged In to Progress with Geothermal Energy in Kenya

Jackson Kiloku, a 26-year-old Masai who herds animals and raises vegetables, stood at the far end of Inkoiriento village, a panoply of wooden and rusted tin-roofed buildings in Kenya's Nakuru County, and pointed to cables in the sky. "I hope electricity...

Solar Power Lights Up Future for Mongolian Herders

About a quarter of Mongolia's 2.8 million people are nomadic herders of yaks, cattle, sheep, goats and camels who live in gers — as their traditional tent dwellings are known — on the country's vast steppes. It is a simple life that has endured for centuries....

Christopher Neal

Christopher Neal

Christopher Neal is Senior Communications Officer for the World Bank’s Sustainable Energy Department. The World Bank Group approved a total of $3.6 billion in financing for renewable energy projects in fiscal year 2012, a record 44% share...

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