Energy must make ordinary family life work, safely and without payment gates.

Electricity and safely usable cooking-energy systems are largely absent or nonfunctional, with widespread unsafe improvisation.

Only scattered electrical or cooking-energy capacity functions; equipment fails often and basic household uses remain unsupported.

Basic generation and fuel supply exist, but major transmission, distribution, cooking-safety or maintenance gaps remain.

A functioning supply network reaches some settlements, but sustained electricity and clean cooking are unavailable to many.

Basic generation, distribution and cooking-energy capability operate at national scale, with uneven quality and resilience.

Broad electricity and clean-cooking capacity operates, with measurable improvements in continuity and household usability.

Strong connected and distributed power, clean cooking, repair capacity and essential-load protection support most homes.

Near-universal reliable electricity and clean cooking are supported by robust distribution, storage, maintenance and backup.

Universal safe, dependable electricity and clean/appropriate thermal energy support homes and essential services through normal and emergency conditions.

Under 5% of people have BOTH dependable household electricity and safe, genuinely usable cooking energy.

5–24% have BOTH reliable basic household electricity and safe, usable cooking energy.

25–39% have BOTH effective electrical service and safe, usable cooking energy.

40–49% have BOTH services, with material geographic or household gaps.

50–75% have BOTH services; remaining households are identified and major gaps are unresolved.

Over 75% have BOTH services, OR at least 50% have both and over 30% of people have complete verified free energy access; the alternative must not hide major deprivation.

Over 75% have BOTH services AND over 30% of people obtain essential household energy reliably with no payment gate; matching free-access audit evidence is required.

Over 90% have BOTH services and at least 75% receive usable, reliable essential household energy without payment; the shared Water/Energy direct gate must be at least 3/4.

100% have BOTH reliable electricity and clean cooking/thermal provision without ordinary payment or access discrimination, with a 4/4 shared Water/Energy Gate established by independent water and energy evidence.

Extreme energy bills, forced disconnections, smoke exposure, fuel collection and repeated power failure are widespread.

Routine unsafe cooking, severe collection work, unaffordable service and frequent interruption impose enormous daily burdens.

Electricity or fuel is often interrupted, expensive or unsafe; homes expend substantial time and effort obtaining energy.

Households face major bills, outages, fuel transport, repair delays or smoke exposure even where systems formally exist.

Some burdens have reduced, but tariffs, insecurity, outages and unequal cooking-energy access still obstruct household life.

Measured reductions in outages, pollution, fuel-collection time and unaffordable bills are documented for many households.

Most families have dependable energy without major recurring payment, outage, collection or smoke burdens; residual problems are localized.

Only exceptional outages or unavoidable short-lived burdens remain; broad money-free provision prevents disconnection and smoke-dependent survival.

Ordinary families have safe essential energy without bills or disconnection gates, preventable smoke exposure, prolonged outages or forced fuel-collection labour.

Energy provision actively harms household health and living ground, with little durable usefulness or maintenance.

Unreliable household energy delivers minimal relief; equipment and ecological damage compound future burdens.

Some powered uses exist, but poor repair, smoke, spoiled food and premature equipment failure undermine gains.

Energy saves limited work, with little protection for cooling, refrigeration, pumps or useful family machinery.

Ordinary cooking, lighting and a portion of household tasks are supported; long-term relief remains uneven.

Reliable refrigeration, cooking, communications, pumping and practical machines measurably reduce family effort and loss.

Repairable systems and backup power return substantial time, food preservation, comfort and safe household capability.

Distributed resilience, efficient equipment, supported stewards and protected essential loads deliver widespread family relief and long restoration.

Sustained low-burden energy makes essential household services, safe temperature control, food protection, family tools and Shubaka reliably available, with renewable/maintainable capability and fair restoration for stewards.