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

Question

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.

In: Economics

Answer 1

PR, USVI and BVI’s are not 3rd world countries and we can’t even keep the lights on.

How can you be so naive to think the technology is readily available?!