Sentences with phrase «have no access to electricity in»

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

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.

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

The annual average investment needed over 2010 - 30 to ensure everyone has access to electricity in the 17 high - impact countries covered by the Access Investment Model (AIM) ranges from just over $ 1 billion to provide everyone with access to 24 hours of electricity a day on very low - powered appliances (i.e tier 1) to around $ 40 billion to provide everyone with access to 23 hours of electricity a day on very high - powered appliances (i.e. tier 5).

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

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

So while the children in Carinto may not have access to running water and electricity at home, ConTextos has been able to provide them with access to a library and trained teachers who can help foster more than just literacy.

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.

He said that in the event of a disaster, to give an extreme example, lack of electricity or other would mean an inability to access all those books.

And where there wasn't electricity — for example, in a pilot program in Ghana — they'd partner with other organizations to install a solar cell, plus a satellite for internet access.

In areas that may lose electricity, fill up bathtubs and sinks ahead of time to ensure that you have access to water during a power outage or other crises.

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.

The player does all the friendship building quests that would be expected of an RPG, but they do so in the context of an urban world: they only have power with access to electricity, the internet, social conventions, architecture and guns; power's domain is the city and the city is everywhere.

More importantly, in my opinion, there are hundreds of millions of human beings on Earth who desperately and urgently need MORE energy — particularly access to electricity, which millions have never had — if they are to have any hope of participating in what readers of this blog like to think of as «advanced civilization».

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.

Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»

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

(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.

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.

While some in the West have apparently decided that delivering energy access is a household event best pursued by developed - world charities, NGOs, and entrepreneurs, what we actually see with electricity is similar to what we see with food — good governance and political institutions are essential for equitable and abundant distribution.

But given the glaring energy gap in poor regions (the 700 million sub-Saharan Africans outside of South Africa have access to the same amount of electricity as the 38 million citizens of Poland) every bit helps.

With the inaugural lighting of manyattas in rural Kenya today, we're proud to extend home solar energy systems to the people in Kenya who have a very remote opportunity to be able to access any form of electricity in the near future,» commented Charles Cohen, Chief Commercial Officer, Commercial Strategy & Development at SkyPower.

Efforts to promote electricity access are having a positive impact in all regions, and the pace of progress has accelerated.

The foundations for this departure from orthodoxy have been laid by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which has essentially admitted in a series of energy access papers that the majority of those without electricity today will never be wired to the grid (PDF).

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.

Few Midwestern or Southern states have an RES, and wide variations in access to renewable sources and electricity prices means that some states and regions are rushing ahead while others are doing nothing.

As part of its New Deal on Energy for Africa, the African Development Bank has set the ambitious goal of achieving universal access to electricity in Africa by 2025.

A huge problem is that many people, especially in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, don't have access to regular electricity.

«Soon, whether you live in Boyle Heights or Beverly Hills, Modesto or Marin, Sausalito or Santa Ana, Sacramento or Logan Heights, San Diego, you will have the same access to clean electricity and clean air.»

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in Asia, with more than 60 % of the population without access to a modern form of electricity, denying people the ability to work, weakening health and safety, education, and limiting the opportunity to rise out of poverty.

In 2014, when the BJP came to power, India had the world's largest energy access deficit in terms of electricity — 270 million people, accounting for just under a third of the world's deficit, according to the World Bank's 2017 State of Electricity Access reporIn 2014, when the BJP came to power, India had the world's largest energy access deficit in terms of electricity — 270 million people, accounting for just under a third of the world's deficit, according to the World Bank's 2017 State of Electricity Access raccess deficit in terms of electricity — 270 million people, accounting for just under a third of the world's deficit, according to the World Bank's 2017 State of Electricity Access reporin terms of electricity — 270 million people, accounting for just under a third of the world's deficit, according to the World Bank's 2017 State of Electricity Accelectricity — 270 million people, accounting for just under a third of the world's deficit, according to the World Bank's 2017 State of Electricity AccElectricity Access rAccess report.

In the fourth part of the series today, we look at how the government has performed on providing access to electricity.