The SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) custodian agencies have launched their annual progress report summarizing global “progress on energy access, energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean cooking, and international cooperation to advance SDG 7.” The report finds that almost 92% of the world’s population has basic access to electricity, but the current rate of progress is insufficient to achieve universal access by 2030.

The Energy Progress Report 2025 emphasizes the role of mini-grid and off-grid solar systems (distributed renewable energy) in accelerating access among people living in remote, rural, lower-income, and fragile areas as these are cost-effective and rapidly scalable.

The report also highlights the role of decentralized solutions in increasing access to clean cooking, which is improving but below the rates of progress seen in the 2010s. An estimated 1.5 billion people still lacking access to clean cooking solutions, according to the report. It shows how the use of off-grid clean technologies, including household biogas plants and mini-grids, can help reduce household air pollution and associated health impacts.

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