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Kerry will likely face resistance in seeking lockstep commitments, of course, given that India's prime challenge is bringing reliable electricity and affordable fuels by any means to its billion - plus citizens — some 400 million of whom were unaffected by last year's blackouts because they have no access to electricity at all.

Currently about 60 percent of India's electricity comes through coal, while some 300 million people do not have access to electricity at all.

«We can't tell an electorate... when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.»

But there are still 1.2 billion people around the world who don't have any access to electricity at all.

Coal exports will certainly be helping some of the 1.4 billion people on this earth who don't have access to any electricity at all.

At the moment, many Africans currently have no access to electricity at all or at best significantly less than Europeans, let alone Americans.

Not exact matches

At a press conference, Perry said it was immoral to withhold fossil fuel - powered electricity from the many people around the world who do not have access to power.

There are three critical components necessary for successfully maintaining milk supply when re-entering the workforce or returning to school: • a high quality breastpump that removes milk quickly and effectively • a place to use a breastpump at work / school that is clean, private, and with access to electricity, if needed • time to use a breastpump at work / school at least every 3 hours

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

He continued, «The pledge I have given is that by end of my term, there will be universal access to electricity to all parts of Ghana, including the Upper Region», an announcement which was received with a rousing applause from the hundreds gathered at the forecourt of the Lawra Naa's palace.

According to the statement, the programme was designed to benefit the entire population of Nigeria in terms of extended access to more reliable supply of electricity at reduced rate.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

He, like many of his neighbors in rural areas with no electricity access at all, prefers to use cheaper wood, coal and kerosene for his own cooking and lighting.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living below the poverty line and 300 million people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.

That's enough energy to run 10 cell phones or two computers at once, which could be good news for people who live in countries where access to electricity is spotty.

«With the potential for increasing water stress in the next few decades across parts of the United States, power plants — and our access to electricity — may be put at risk when water is not adequately considered in planning.»

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

So while the children in Carinto may not have access to running water and electricity at home, ConTextos has been able to provide them with access to a library and trained teachers who can help foster more than just literacy.

Infrastructure improvements completed on the Electrical Load Center at the port will now provide access to electricity in the event of a power outage.

Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»

According to NComputing, the access devices eliminate the need for air conditioning when there is a room full of the devices, since they create little heat, produce significantly less e-waste at the end of their extra long lifetimes, and according to their calculations, the company's current user base is right now saving 144 million kWh of electricity annually, 17,700 metric tons of coal, 112,300 metric tons of CO2, and about 8,100 metric tons of e-waste.

Before the week is out, and depending on access to the gifts of electricity and the Internet, I'll revisit the rich online discussion of communication challenges related to climate extremes in a warming world — which involves folks ranging from David Roberts at Grist to David Ropeik at Big Think.

With the inaugural lighting of manyattas in rural Kenya today, we're proud to extend home solar energy systems to the people in Kenya who have a very remote opportunity to be able to access any form of electricity in the near future,» commented Charles Cohen, Chief Commercial Officer, Commercial Strategy & Development at SkyPower.

The dreams of people such as my grandparents, who wished to see central electricity access arrive at their doorstep, were unfortunately not met in time.

Haiti is a country at risk, with poverty, weak infrastructure, limited access to electricity, and extreme weather all putting its population in jeopardy.

In the fourth part of the series today, we look at how the government has performed on providing access to electricity.

Energy demand in Southeast Asia grows at one of the fastest rates in the world yet around 65 million people across the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries are without access to electricity.

When you participate in a community solar project, you are paying for access to less expensive solar electricity so that you don't have to buy electricity at standard utility rates.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

Although universal access to electricity remains beyond reach, since at the current pace there will be an estimated 674 million people still without electricity in 2030, the number of people gaining access to power has been accelerating since 2010.

It includes many important provisions that aim to help African countries extend access to electricity to at least 50 million people by 2020.

As a result the world's population is growing at about the same rate as the population gaining access to electricity — meaning 1.3 billion people are permanently left behind if something doesn't change.

In Nepal, for example, the SREP supported project is providing access to electricity and facilitating productive end uses of energy at the «bottom of the pyramid» in rural locations, which are beyond the «last mile» of the grid.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

Young Guineans, without access to electricity, study under carpark lights at G'bessi airport in Conakry, Guinea.

«There are billions of people on earth who don't have any electricity at all and a couple billion people who don't have adequate access to electricity.

It is unreasonable to believe that currently very poor countries will not be increasing their CO2 emissions as their populations DEMAND access to electricity and transportation at affordable costs.

They claim that this will «provide direct access to power at cost and without the additional charges and costs associated with transmission, of power including; grid costs, poles and wires, electricity retailer margins to supply to the end user.»

The CES4All energy access level is also five times lower than the very low International Energy Agency threshold, which defines «modern» electricity access at 50 to 100 kWh / cap / year.

Energy poverty is an endemic and crippling problem; nearly 600 million people in Africa live without access to any power, which also means no access to safer and healthier electric cooking and heating, powered health centers and refrigerated medicines, light to study at night, or electricity to run a business.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without,» said Boucar Diouf, a professor at the university and lead researcher on the study.

Consumers must have access to the price at all times, and have the option of using electricity or not depending on the price;

«The big advantage of our system in rural areas is the abundance of area that is easy to access and maintain (far easier than up on a rooftop), the ease of setting up large power plants (at roughly eight acres per megawatt of electricity), and less resistance from homeowner associations,» Cummings explained via e-mail.

We're working in the U.S. to decarbonize the electricity system; supporting power sector reform in China; helping island economies transition to renewables; improving electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa; and providing renewable energy at mining operations.

To help clarify what's at stake, we estimated how different OPIC energy portfolios would impact electricity access levels and additional generation capacity.

Likewise, the thermostat can be controlled with Alexa or Google Assistant voice commands.KONO Smart also has a physical knob that can be turned to adjust the temperature and access other controls on the thermostat's small digital screen.Like the Nest and many other smart thermostats, the KONO Smart can automatically learn and adjust the temperature of your house whether you're at home or away, which can potentially reduce your electricity bill over time.The thermostat's other features include smart scheduling, a