Sentences with phrase «electricity access in»

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.

The road to lowest - cost electricity access in Cambodia runs a different course.

Two innovative data initiatives are emerging to gather this information and improve electricity access in India.

Demand charges were first introduced in the early 1900s by Samuel Insull, a colleague of Thomas Edison and an influential figure in the expansion of electricity access in the US.

India's continued emphasis on electrifying households means it is expected to reach universal electricity access in the early - 2020s, with renewables accounting for about 60 % of those who gain access.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the access rate grows to 59 % in 2030, from 43 % in 2016, however, the number of people without electricity access in the region begins to grow again as efforts fail to accelerate.

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

For a valuable discussion of what's possible on the ground now in accelerating electricity access in places without any options, watch the conversation I had in 2014 with Harish Hande, a renewable - energy entrepreneur in India, on the entrepreneur's role in solving energy poverty:

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Ministry of Energy hosted a workshop to discuss increasing electricity access in Ghana on August 8 - 10, 2017.

Today we have achieved 80 percent electricity access in Ghana and so every small village you go to, people have power to set up small businesses like welding plants...

Not exact matches

In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.

Access to electricity in that country is spotty because the infrastructure is so poor.

Despite a rapidly developing economy in Kenya, widespread use of cell phones, and the home to one of the most successful mobile payment systems in the world, more than three quarters of Kenyans don't have regular access to electricity.

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The idea is to help families who live in «energy poverty,» relying on smoky open fires as their main cooking source while also spending a disproportionate amount of their income to access lighting or electricity.

In places where access to electricity and other infrastructure is far from guaranteed, this system aims to sterilize the grimy bits.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Green Button pilot was initiated in 2014 offering residential and commercial customers a choice of four applications to easily access their electricity data and better manage their usage.

Today, a great majority of miners are located in China because they have access to cheap electricity.

2012 Pacific Energy Summit Delegates from over 17 Countries Meet in Hanoi to Foster Energy Security, Economic Growth, and Electricity Access (April 9 2012)

Sunlight can still reach the 1.3 billion people in the world who live without access to electricity.4 First Solar wants to close that gap, offering solar - power - generating capabilities to new regions globally.

They won't help hurricane victims who don't have electricity (and therefore no access to the Internet), but it might get some of you all thinking about how to be prepared should disaster strike in your area.

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

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.

Businesses need enhancements to tax laws, access to property and finance, improvements in regulatory and business environment, improvements in petrol and electricity availability, and in the context of current policy, a flexible exchange rate policy that allows producers secure foreign currency to procure imported inputs!

On Social infrastructure, President Mahama said with the efforts employed about eighty percent of Ghanaians have access to electricity and with the expansion of water systems Accra for instance currently has a hundred percent access to water, the first in the history of the country.

Elikely while accepting the award said, «In accepting this award, I want to dedicate it to Transcorp Power staff who remain committed to realizing our dream of improving access to electricity in Nigeria and making our vision of a well - lit, fully powered Nigeria come true.&raquIn accepting this award, I want to dedicate it to Transcorp Power staff who remain committed to realizing our dream of improving access to electricity in Nigeria and making our vision of a well - lit, fully powered Nigeria come true.&raquin Nigeria and making our vision of a well - lit, fully powered Nigeria come true.»

The TUC expects government to scrap all the levies and taxes on electricity as a means of improving access and making it affordable to all Ghanaians in all parts of the country.

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.

«We have extended electricity to so many communities and indeed, Ghana is estimated to have access to more than 80 per cent in electric power,» he said.

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.

«So this year, 2017, and 2018, a total of 660 communities in the Upper East will be connected to the electricity grid, to expand electricity access to all in the region,» he added, receiving a rousing applause from the gathering.»

Digital connectivity is a major issue in Africa and you can't fix it if you don't have reliable access to electricity.

«We believe that universal access to health care, education, affordable food, water, electricity and housing is the right of every Ghanaian» says the manifesto, adding that the NDC Government will establish and implement a framework for collective and individual contribution to the peace, safety, security and stability of the country when retained in power.

These are resources that could have been used in the provision of portable water, access roads, electricity, healthcare and education for our people,» he said in an earlier Citi News interview.

Elsa Seguinot indicated that she had a lot of family in Puerto Rico, and after the storm abated most of the island's residents lacked access to electricity and clean water.

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.

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.

In rural sub-Saharan Africa, only one in six people has access to electricitIn rural sub-Saharan Africa, only one in six people has access to electricitin six people has access to electricity.

«For example, electricity access is needed in schools and homes in order for all girls and boys to have access to free, equitable and good - quality primary and secondary education.»

«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.»

That's because poor households with access to electricity have little equipment to plug in.

More than a billion people worldwide — one in six people — don't yet have access to electricity.

MORE than a billion people worldwide — one in six people — don't have access to electricity.

More than 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity, a situation that can keep people in poverty.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

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.»

In rural India, about 134 million families earn less than $ 2.50 a day, and only half have access to electricity.

«As a region, Africa is in an unparalleled energy crisis rife with electricity deficiency, lack of access, and high costs,» said Wu.