{
  "id": 17151262,
  "title": "Off-Grid Solar Is Now the Cheapest Power for Nearly 400 Million People",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/off-grid-solar-is-now-the-cheapest-power-for-nearly-400-million-people",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-30T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "OilPrice",
    "slug": "oilprice",
    "url": "https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Solar-Energy/Off-Grid-Solar-Is-Now-the-Cheapest-Power-for-Nearly-400-Million-People.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The World Bank now ranks off-grid solar as the cheapest way to bring electricity to at least 398 million people who still live without it. A joint report released this week by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) and the off-grid solar industry association GOGLA treats the technology as permanent infrastructure. Systems once sold as a stopgap until the grid arrived…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}