Sentences with phrase «half have access to electricity»

Off.Grid: Electric is a massively scalable solar leasing company offering radically affordable energy for the 1.6 billion people who don't have access to electricity.

Electric pumps are usually not portable, and manual pumps may be a better choice if you don't have access to electricity while traveling.

Wherever you decide to pump, make sure that you have access to electricity (if needed for pump operation), the location is private and comfortable (not too hot or too cold; comfortable place to sit), and there is sufficient cleanliness for collecting milk.

This is a welcome development if you are already thinking of possible options to use the swing when you don't have access to electricity.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

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.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said 50 million people out of the nation's 180 million population have no access to electricity.

Only 40 % have access to electricity.

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

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.

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

If successful, this program would provide a sustainable energy source for millions of people, many of whom do not have access to electricity today.

There are five elements to the Lights to Learn, which offers access to quality education in rural areas of Latin America that often don't have access to electricity.

The Cotton Tree Lodge does not have any access to electricity and uses solar power for basic electrical needs.

It has access to electricity and municipal water and is accessible all year round

The Caravan sites are located between the vineyards and the dam, and have access to electricity and communal ablution facilities.

The reality is that many of those people, and millions of others like them throughout the developing world who have NO access to electricity, will NEVER have access to fossil - fuel - fired electricity because no one is ever going to build the centralized power plants and the grid to deliver electricity to them.

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.)

And in fact, I do think it would be a good idea for the billions of people all over the world who have never had access to electricity to have access to cheap, efficient, mass - produced off - grid solar power — power they can generate for themselves, without being beholden to big utilities.

Three solar panels, neon lamps and other electrical appliances ensure that the children can continue their studies after dark as the village has no access to electricity.

The kits will be distributed under the guidance of the Government of Kenya to households across the country that do not have access to electricity.

Currently about 60 percent of India's electricity comes through coal, while some 300 million people do not have access to electricity at all.

The CAT report also covers the plight of the one billion people who still have no access to electricity.

Today, 1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity in their homes.

This means that not much would be left for the billions of poor who have no access to electricity or clean cooking fuel or modern means of transportation.

Recently, China has shown how coal can play a critical role in lifting people out of energy poverty — out of the total population of 1.3 billion, only three million do not have access to electricity in China today.

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's Africa Energy Outlook - a Special Report in the 2014 World Energy Outlook series - indicates that some 625 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity, while another estimated 730 million Africans on the continent use dirty and potentially hazardous fuels to cook.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

1.7 billion people on our planet still have no access to electricity and live in daily struggle just to survive.

The International Energy Agency says more than 1.3 billion people around the world have no access to electricity, and 2.6 billion are without clean cooking facilities.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

Yet one billion people in the world today have no access to electricity, and roughly three times that number use dirty cooking fuels, whose smoke is killing more than four million people a year.

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

Less than 15 % of Rwanda's population has access to electricity.

This is sorely needed in a country where nearly 300 million people do not have access to electricity.

But there are still 1.2 billion people around the world who don't have any access to electricity at all.

Secondary school education was available to 95 % of the population only in 37 out of 117 countries, and out of the 151 countries in the sample, there were only 59 where 95 % of the people had access to electricity.

More than 1 billion people have no access to electricity, and coal offers a cheap and reliable way to turn the lights on and heat homes.

In refugee camps, 90 % of families have no access to electricity.

According to the World Bank, 100 % of registered homes in the United States have access to the electricity grid, so it is unusual for a cell tower to be «off - grid,» and thus require a distributed source of energy in order to operate.

Coal exports will certainly be helping some of the 1.4 billion people on this earth who don't have access to any electricity at all.

At the moment, many Africans currently have no access to electricity at all or at best significantly less than Europeans, let alone Americans.

If people have access to electricity in these locations, it is often via expensive and polluting diesel generators.

598 million people in Africa alone have no access to electricity.