Sentences with phrase «expand access to electricity»

I can decide not to build schools, I can decide today, not to expand access to electricity, I can decide not to build hospitals.

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«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.»

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.

In 2012, Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen founded the social business Little Sun, which provides clean, affordable light to communities without access to electricity and spreads awareness about the need to expand access to sustainable energy to all (www.littlesun.com).

Shared Renewables is just one of several REV initiatives that will expand consumer access to reliable, low - cost electricity, giving everyone - from rural homeowners to apartment renters in the city — an opportunity to share in the benefits of clean, solar power.»

They dismiss this outright, insisting that expanding electricity access to this segment, even with fossil - fuel - based sources, would have only a minuscule impact on global warming.

All countries must work to expand newly cheap solar and other clean energy sources to the 1.5 billion people around the world who lack electricity, and billions more for whom access is unreliable.

... Around the world, nearly 1.3 billion people live without access to electricity, many of them far from the ever - expanding electric grid.