The World Bank Group has committed to achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) Initiative. This is a daunting challenge: more than 1 billion people do not have access, and another 1 billion have chronically inadequate or unreliable service. The investment needed to provide access would be about $37 billion per year. By comparison, in recent years, low-access countries received an average of $3.6 billion per year for their electricity sectors from public and private sources, including $1.5 billion per year from the World Bank Group.