The Energy Access Dividend in Honduras and Haiti

This report attempts to quantify and monetize the benefits generated through accelerated electricity access in Honduras and Haiti. It builds on an existing framework for measuring the dividends of electrification, which was developed to estimate the potential benefits of increasing the pace of electrification through case studies in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Bangladesh. The report builds on this methodology and applies it for the first time in Latin America, a region that is doing comparatively well in electrifying households, but where millions still lack access and reliability remains a major challenge. The concept of the Energy Access Dividend (EAD) is to quantify the electrification benefits forgone over a country’s business-as-usual electrification transition. Designed as a tool for policy planning, the dividends presented in this report for Haiti and Honduras are intended to highlight the role of electrification in economic development and offer policymakers a framework for including electrification trade-offs in policy planning and design.