Sentences with phrase «of electricity access»

HELE coal technologies are important mitigation tools that will strengthen Indonesia's ability to deliver its INDC commitments and implement the Paris Agreement, while supporting the delivery of electricity access for all its population.

This is one of the many stories I heard while interviewing users of SHS in Nicaragua that illustrated to me the not - so - straightforward nature of «needs» in the context of electricity access.

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 report.

Demand charges were first introduced in the early 1900s by Samuel Insull, a colleague of Thomas Edison and an influential figure in the expansion of electricity access in the US.

Traction: In December, Orora installed its solar Home Lighting Systems in an Irula community in Southern India, which has only six hours of electricity access each day.

Not exact matches

In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.

True, more RAM means less hard drive access, and the hard drive uses a lot of electricity.

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.

The idea is to help families who live in «energy poverty,» relying on smoky open fires as their main cooking source while also spending a disproportionate amount of their income to access lighting or electricity.

While we do pay to access the electricity grid and for metered usage of it, just like the Internet, we don't pay yet again for individual uses of it.

Through greater integration of their grids, these provinces could cut more carbon pollution faster and gain access to lower - cost electricity.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The Green Button pilot was initiated in 2014 offering residential and commercial customers a choice of four applications to easily access their electricity data and better manage their usage.

SS: Much of what we think of as technological progress from the modern era like easy access to electricity required government intervention.

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

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria, a category four storm, tore through Puerto Rico forging a path of devastation and destruction, many of the island's citizens still do not have access to food, water, medicine, or 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.

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.

The need of batteries is entirely dependent upon you that is if you choose to travel out of home or somewhere where there is no access to electricity.

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 choice of pump depends on the anticipated frequency of expression, time constraints, cost and access to electricity.

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.

Addressing the Lawra Traditional Council, on day 2 of his 7 - day tour of the three Northern Regions, President Akufo - Addo bemoaned the fact that «the Upper West Region, like the two other Northern Regions are the most disadvantaged when it comes to electricity coverage and access is concerned.»

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.

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics on FEMA's Web page documenting the federal response to Maria.

He continued, «The pledge I have given is that by end of my term, there will be universal access to electricity to all parts of Ghana, including the Upper Region», an announcement which was received with a rousing applause from the hundreds gathered at the forecourt of the Lawra Naa's palace.

Businesses need enhancements to tax laws, access to property and finance, improvements in regulatory and business environment, improvements in petrol and electricity availability, and in the context of current policy, a flexible exchange rate policy that allows producers secure foreign currency to procure imported inputs!

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.

The World Bank Ease of Doing Business rankings assessed countries based on 11 indicators such as starting a business, access to a credit facility, registering a property, access to electricity, paying taxes, protecting minority investors, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.

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.

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.

Elikely while accepting the award said, «In accepting this award, I want to dedicate it to Transcorp Power staff who remain committed to realizing our dream of improving access to electricity in Nigeria and making our vision of a well - lit, fully powered Nigeria come true.»

An official of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that electricity generation had been dwindling due to challenge of accessing gas by generation companies.

Oyu Tolgoi has built a power line from the mine to the town of Khanbogd, which will provide the community with access to around - the - clock electricity for the first time.

The TUC expects government to scrap all the levies and taxes on electricity as a means of improving access and making it affordable to all Ghanaians in all parts 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.

«To not be able to connect and hear from our loved ones, when you think of our hospitals and nursing homes, and the people that need our medical equipment or access to batteries or electricity, I don't want to think of the dire consequences that lie ahead,» said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

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.

According to the statement, the programme was designed to benefit the entire population of Nigeria in terms of extended access to more reliable supply of electricity at reduced rate.

He also reiterated his commitment to ensuring universal access to electricity to all parts of the country, and with the Upper East being the part of the country with the least access to electricity, 60 % access, the President stated that it is necessary that every effort is made to accelerate the provision of electricity to the Upper East.

«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.»

As of Wednesday, half of Puerto Ricans had access to drinking water and 5 percent of the island had electricity, according to statistics published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency on its Web page documenting the federal response to Hurricane Maria.

The Indian government's push for universal energy access and an expansion of manufacturing will drive electricity growth.

«We believe that universal access to health care, education, affordable food, water, electricity and housing is the right of every Ghanaian» says the manifesto, adding that the NDC Government will establish and implement a framework for collective and individual contribution to the peace, safety, security and stability of the country when retained in power.

He also boasted that when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) took over the administration of the country, access to electricity was about 50 %, but «today as I speak to you, access to electricity is 83.5 % second to only South Africa.»

These are resources that could have been used in the provision of portable water, access roads, electricity, healthcare and education for our people,» he said in an earlier Citi News interview.

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.

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.

If you feel like bringing the benefits of a grill to your friend's kitchen, you can easily pack the Global King up and take it anywhere with access to electricity!

He, like many of his neighbors in rural areas with no electricity access at all, prefers to use cheaper wood, coal and kerosene for his own cooking and lighting.