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

Technology does not produce electricity, machines do. Knowing how to produce power is not enough to provide that power to millions of people. The issie is not technology but building million or billion dollar power plants and running them 24/7.