Sentences with phrase «access to electricity since»

There are some positive signs: over 100 million people per year have gained access to electricity since 2012 compared with around 60 million per year from 2000 to 2012.

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Portability is a big advantage of battery - operated UV pacifier sterilizers since you don't need to have access to a microwave, water or electricity to get rid of the germs.

Since 2012, Eliasson has also run Little Sun, a certified B Corporation that produces small, solar - powered LED lamps with the aim to provide clean, affordable, and renewable light to communities without access to electricity.

(I'm trying to find out if electricity access in slums there has improved since then; tips welcome.)

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.

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.

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.

Since he took power in May 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made universal access to electricity a key part of his administration's ambitions.

Geothermal electricity generation is in operation in 24 countries worldwide and while it offers a more dependable source of power than solar and wind - since it keys into the constant energy coming from within the earth rather than the inconsistent energy from the elements around the planet - it is limited geographically to areas where access to geothermal sources in possible.

Since 2000, around 170 million people have gained access to electricity across the region, including 95 million people in Indonesia.