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More than 65 million people have no access to electricity, 60 million more in the Middle East and North Africa endure prolonged outages and under-supply. Seven hundred million Africans are challenged by energy poverty. Increasing demand for energy along with the need for climate solutions leads to the concept of a bridge of innovation to solve these regional challenges simultaneously. Lacking a one-size-fits-all solution, we must trace convergent transition pathways to help capital and tech deployment achieve regional energy transitions to a low-carbon economy