OPENING
 Honorable Chair, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates.
 I speak for a nation that has known the dark, and has chosen to reach for the light.
 For Liberia, energy is the lamp in a child’s study at night. The vaccine kept cold in a rural clinic. The small business that dreams of becoming a large one.
 Energy is the difference between waiting and building. And Liberia has chosen to build.

WHERE WE STAND
 Through the Mission 300 Energy Compact, we are working to bring reliable power to 75 percent of our people by 2030.
 Today, access has reached 38 percent, on an installed capacity of 146 megawatts, led by hydropower and a fast-growing solar fleet.
 And we have already met nearly 80 percent of our first-year connection target: hundreds of thousands of Liberians who now wake to the light.

THE HONEST CHALLENGE
 Let me be candid. Our power is overwhelmingly renewable, and that is our pride. But it ties us to the rains.
 In the dry season, our grid runs roughly 72 megawatts short.
 I will not hide that gap. I will tell you how we close it.

THE CLEAN PLAN
 We close it with clean power: solar paired with battery storage, an expanded Mount Coffee, and deeper regional hydropower ties.
 Beyond that, we have identified more than 1,000 megawatts of new generation: solar and hydropower, from Grand Cape Mount to the Saint John River.
 And our ambition does not end at the city limits.
 Through renewable mini-grids and standalone solar, we are carrying light to villages that have never once known the grid.
 In Liberia, light is not a privilege of the capital. It is the right of every citizen.

CLEAN COOKING
 We are also launching our first national clean-cooking strategy, reaching 200,000 households by 2030.
 Because no mother should have to breathe smoke to cook a meal for her children.

THE ASK
 Excellencies, ambition of this scale meets one wall: financing.
 Mission 300 carries a gap of roughly 1.25 billion dollars that we cannot bridge alone.
 So, I come not only to report, but to invite: for concessional finance, for blended investment, and for true partnership.

CLOSE
 For every megawatt we add brings another Liberian town out of the dark.
 Liberia is reaching for the light. I ask this assembly to reach back.

I thank you.

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