Approximately 306 million poor rural people in 2023 faced health and productivity risksdue to a lack of access to cooling that are certain to increase as global temperatures rise(SEforALL 2023). Despite global efforts to increase electricity access, about 540 million ruralpeople still lacked access to the electricity needed for quality of life in 2021, including theneed to power cooling equipment (lEA et al. 2023).
People living in rural areas with no access to the electricity grid (off