Access to electricity is essential for firms. Yet many entrepreneurs around the world f struggle with high costs lo connect to electricity grids. In 2013 the cost to con- nect a single warehouse to a power sup- ply ranged from an average of $19.112 in South Asia to $38.500 in Sub-Saharan Africa. Globally the average was $29,134(figure 6.1). Self-supply is much more costly often prohibitively so.1 Moreover, high electricity connection costs often go hand in hand with high transmission and 2 distribution losses?