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Empower a Billion Lives (EBL) 2025, an IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) initiative, is not just a competition, it’s a movement to create transformative solutions that tackle energy poverty head-on. This global biennial competition is aimed at crowdsourcing scalable solutions to bring energy access to millions around the world.

Now through 1 November 2024, EBL 2025 is seeking passionate, enthusiastic and talented individuals and teams to join the challenge. The competition is open to student teams, small and medium-sized companies, research labs, international corporations, and non-profit organizations. There are a myriad of beneficial components to being involved in this innovative and transformational competition: 

• Learning opportunity: Learn about one of the most pressing issues facing humanity from experts in the field
• Huge untapped market potential: A market of unserved people is one of the largest market opportunities today
• Exposure: Winners of the online round and the global round will be featured on press releases, social media, and various media outlets
• Networking: Participate in banquets and other social events with participants active in the sector
• Field pilot: Teams selected to field-test will be provided a letter from the competition to assist with fundraising to offset their costs.
• Significant Prize Monies: Amongst Global Final winners over US$1 Million in prizes and team support has been distributed.

Complete competition guidelines, resources and requirements can be found here: Empower A Billion Lives 2025.  If you would like to make a donation to support the program, please visit the donation page.