Eli5: Why is it so difficult for third-world countries to provide stable electricity to their citizens despite the technology being so abundant?

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The technology is readily available, people will pay to have access to it. Yet, a lot of people still don’t have this technology made available to them.

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I live in Costa Rica with constant power disruptions. We do not have an issue with generating the power, that we have in abundance. Our issue is the power lines. During dry season we have forest fires, during rainy season torrential downpours and landslides. We have trees taking out lines all the time. We are in a ver seismic zone, so earthquakes take out lines. Monkeys often get fried on the transformers. We also don’t have a lot of police that manage traffic violations, I have seen more than once drunk drivers take out utility poles.

These are just some of the challanges we face here.

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