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This manual aims to facilitate greater access to electricity by rural communities through the provision of climate finance under a National Appropriate Mitigation Action («NAMA»).

The interagency initiative has the goals of increasing access to electricity by adding 60 million electricity connections and 30...

This builds off of President Obama's Power Africa initiative, a program with the twin goals of increasing access to electricity by adding 60 million electricity connections and 30 gigawatts of «new and cleaner» power generation.

The Energy Programme of Intermediate Technology Development Group captured a 2000 award for helping rural Peruvian communities gain access to electricity by financing mini-hydro power technologies.

Speaking of unelectrified villages, Modi's government claims to be crushing his promise to give all citizens access to electricity by 2022.

Key among NDC's 2016 manifesto promises in the sector includes increasing the stock of power generation assets, developing more sustainable power sources, encouraging energy conservation, increasing generation capacity in excess of 5,000 MW by 2021 and achieving universal access to electricity by 2025.

Not exact matches

Sunfarmer, which supplies solar energy services to rural communities lacking access to reliable and affordable electricity by providing technology and innovative financing solutions.

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, has pledged the commitment of his government towards ensuring universal coverage and access to electricity to all parts of Ghana by the end of his term in office.

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.

It also went up by three places to 76 on the resolving insolvency indicator and two places to 122 when it comes to getting access to electricity for businesses.

An official of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that electricity generation had been dwindling due to challenge of accessing gas by generation companies.

The following day, led by community organizer Yetta Kurland and others, over 100 volunteers transported the materials to community organizer Jacques Leandre who then distributed the goods to desperately underserved areas in the Far Rockaway section of Queens — neighborhoods that still had no electricity and very limited access to resources.

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its Web page documenting the federal response to Hurricane Maria.

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

Today, electricity generation is buffeted by numerous factors: access to fossil fuels, peak oil, nuclear security and proliferation, pollution, and climate change.

Says Bergman, «These technologies hold out real hope globally, because by lowering the cost significantly, more people can get access to electricity within their lifetime.»

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

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.

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.

(Which, by the way, I think is one of the best things happening in this whole sphere — communities from Mongolia to Kenya that have never had any access to electricity are now getting it, with wonderful results.)

As Michael Wines reported last year, the 700 million people of sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa have access to the same amount of electricity used by the 38 million people of Poland.

While some in the West have apparently decided that delivering energy access is a household event best pursued by developed - world charities, NGOs, and entrepreneurs, what we actually see with electricity is similar to what we see with food — good governance and political institutions are essential for equitable and abundant distribution.

The transmission line, proposed by Atlantic Grid Holdings, would allow 7 GW of electricity from offshore wind farms access to the grid.

The foundations for this departure from orthodoxy have been laid by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which has essentially admitted in a series of energy access papers that the majority of those without electricity today will never be wired to the grid (PDF).

There has been some progress: since 2000, the number of people in developing countries with access to clean cooking — principally liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and electricity, has grown by 60 %, and the number of people cooking with coal and kerosene has more than halved.

However, as discussed in Part 2 of this series Your Solar Finance Primer, typically cash financing maximizes lifetime savings compared to solar loans, leases, and PPAs, as customers avoid interest charges and monthly payments while gaining access to free electricity produced by their installation.

Press Release: Reports show much greater finance needed to achieve global goals to close the electricity and clean cooking access gap by 2030

As part of its New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank has set the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025.

The International Energy Agency (IEA), an intergovernmental policy advising organization, explains that «access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development» and «can not easily be replaced by other forms of energy.»

The Indian government caused quite the buzz last week when it announced the US$ 2.5 billion «Saubhagya» scheme to provide electricity access to all households by December 2018.

Hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.

By creating the right policy and regulatory conditions, international clean energy access initiatives can help other countries benefit from greater access to electricity through distributed renewable energy.

Times News Network: The Centre aims to achieve «electricity for all» by 2027 while 75 million households still don't have access to electricity and only two percent of renewable energy into the grid by 2021.

EIA expects household per capita disposable income to grow by an average of 3.2 % per year as more people have access to electricity and the ownership of electricity - using appliances and equipment (particularly air conditioners) grows.

The International Energy Agency reported last year that 240 million people in India lack access to electricity, and by the Indian government's count there were 18,452 villages lacking grid connections in April 2015.

By embracing new integrated approaches to electricity access, swift progress can be achieved in reducing energy poverty and closing the energy access gap cleanly and resiliently.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

[xii] The path to a liberalised power market is long — another round of voting is held in 2018 before a legal framework for a deregulated electricity market is implemented by 1 July 2023 — but this vote is hugely significant in demonstrating the desire of consumers in this region for a fair marketplace that enables the same access to renewables as well as incumbent fossil fuels.

Providing electricity to 1.2 billion people who don't have access to reliable sources of energy is a key component to ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2030, according to a World Bank Group report.

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

Electricity expansion growth will have to double to meet the 100 percent access target by 2030.

It is now well understood that universal electricity access by 2030 (a core part of U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 7 - SDG 7) can only be achieved if decentralized renewable energy (DRE)-- green micro-grids and rooftop solar paired with storage and ultra-efficiency appliances — gets adequate finance to reach scale quickly.

«Permitted Use»: (1) Installing, operating, maintaining, removing, replacing and collecting data from meteorological towers, stations and anemometers, conducting avian, archeological and biological assessments, environmental assessments, soil and preconstruction analysis, and other studies and evaluations deemed necessary by Grantee for purposes of evaluating the Wind Resources of the Premises, exercising the rights granted to Grantee hereunder, and developing the Wind Energy Project; (2) Constructing, installing, operating, accessing, maintaining and removing (including, when necessary, replacing)(a) WTGs on WTG Pads on the Premises for the conversion of Wind Resources to electricity, and including replacing WTGs for purposes of repowering for conversion of Wind Resources to electricity on WTG Pads located on the Premises and / or in connection or conjunction with other real property on which the Wind Energy Project is located; and (b) all related Improvements (i) necessary or convenient to Grantee in conjunction with WTGs for the Wind Energy Project (ii) for the use by Grantee in collecting, transmitting or otherwise making electricity from the WTGs on the Wind Energy Project marketable and available for sale; or (iii) for the use by Grantee for access to and from the Improvements or a public right of way to the WTGs for the Wind Energy Project (in each case, whether or not such WTGs are on the Premises), or (3) uses otherwise permitted herein.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

It also conducts regular surveys to facilitate the action utilities are taking to increase access to affordable and clean electricity by identifying, recording and sharing information, main trends and issues as well as best practices.

This third edition of the report, a multi-agency effort led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Bank, provides an update of how the world has been moving towards the three SE4All objectives: universal access to electricity and clean cooking, doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency, and doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030

This would ensure a «level playing field» for competition in the electricity and heat industries by guaranteeing non-discriminatory access to the high - and low - voltage grids, by setting transparent tariffs based on full costs and providing clear licensing rules for new players in the markets.

Coal has a vital role in building modern societies by providing access to baseload electricity and is a critical building block for development — metallurgical coal is an essential ingredient in steel and much of the world's cement is produced using coal, both vital materials in building sustainable societies.

Most of the world's deadliest pollution is concentrated in the Third World, largely among poor households which have little or no access to electricity produced by fossil - fuel power.

Further, 1.6 billion people still live in energy poverty, without access to the basic services provided by electricity.