Sentences with phrase «getting access to electricity»

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.

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.»

More specifically, how can we shift policy and regulation to scale up distributed renewable energy — for example, solar home systems or village - scale solar power systems — that could help many of the world's poorest get access to electricity for the first time?

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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.

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.

The math for those without direct access to cheap electricity gets even less favorable when you compare the Niro plug - in to its plug-less equivalent.

As a technomancer you've got access to a small and relatively tame selection of electricity based powers, including zapping people, unleashing a small electrical storm and wrapping your weapon in a constant blaze of electrical death, which also happens to be a superb party trick a rave.

(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.)

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

In a country where more than 300 million people lack even the most basic access to electricity, solar power can be among the quickest and easiest ways to get power into, for example, rural villages.

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.

Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week, leaving their futures bleak.