Sentences with phrase «increasing access to electricity»

The interagency initiative has the goals of increasing access to electricity by adding 60 million electricity connections and 30...

This builds off of President Obama's Power Africa initiative, a program with the twin goals of increasing access to electricity by adding 60 million electricity connections and 30 gigawatts of «new and cleaner» power generation.

In contrast, increased access to electricity and health care seem not to affect mortality on extremely hot days.

Not exact matches

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

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.

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.

«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.»

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

As the Nobel Committee notes in its press release: «The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids.»

While it's good to see encouraging, early - stage progress in a handful of countries on electricity access, we urgently need targeted, refined strategies to increase investment in integrated electricity solutions.

It also conducts regular surveys to facilitate the action utilities are taking to increase access to affordable and clean electricity by identifying, recording and sharing information, main trends and issues as well as best practices.

More than one billion people globally lack access to electricity, and billions more still burn wood and dung for their basic energy needs whereas there is another segment of people who care less about the increasing earth's temperature and are sitting in a single room with their ACs on searching Yify Torrents Sites.

«The World Bank,» says Menton, «actually projects that the number of people in Africa without access to electricity will increase, not decrease, between now and 2030!»

The report highlights: Trends in domestic energy demand and supply prospects to 2040, broken down by fuel and sector The outlook for the power sector and the increasing share of coal in the region's electricity generation The role that Southeast Asia will play in international energy trade and the implications for its energy expenditures The potential energy and environmental benefits of implementing pragmatic measures that would help limit the rise in the region's greenhouse - gas emissions An in - depth analysis of energy prospects in Malaysia to 2040 A focus on four key issues that will shape the direction of the region's energy system: power grid interconnection, energy investment, energy access and fossil - fuel subsidies

It is unreasonable to believe that currently very poor countries will not be increasing their CO2 emissions as their populations DEMAND access to electricity and transportation at affordable costs.

«If it is successful there could be potential to replicate this and increase access to low carbon, low cost energy in other parts of the capital because we have electricity substations dotted throughout London which keep the lights on for millions of homes and businesses.»

It would «cause double - digit electricity price increases in 40 states» and «would prevent struggling communities from accessing reliable and affordable fuel sources, which could eventually lead to poor families choosing between putting healthy food on the table or turning their heater on in the winter.»

It has become the largest contributor to the global increase in greenhouse gas emissions even though more than half a billion people in the region, mostly south Asia, don't have access to electricity.