Sentences with phrase «of rural electrification»

In a series of case studies, Douglas Barnes warned, «The overemphasis on the economic benefits of rural electrification has meant a lack of proper perspective.»

Jigar: On our current trajectory we will see no perceptible difference in terms of rural electrification.

As far as we are aware, the majority of rural electrification strategies active or planned in Africa today involve the private sector.

The dates of the land use changes temperature impact seems to be at a plateau around 1935 to 1975 coincide with the beginning of the Rural Electrification Act of the New Deal.

Studies of rural electrification have not always painted a rosy picture.

The study is the first such retrospective analysis of the emissions impacts of rural electrification (Nature Climate Change, doi.org/wf6).

The study, in Nature Climate Change, is the first such retrospective analysis of the emissions impacts of rural electrification.

In the area of rural electrification, the governor has also not fared badly.

Not exact matches

After listening to their ideas, I show them the Rural Electrification Act of 1938.

They also commended Obiano for his efforts in road construction, rural electrification and for giving N20m to each community in the state to execute projects of their choice.

Under the Rural Electrification Programme, 289 out of a targeted 2,185 communities were connected to the national grid with other projects at various stages of completion.

He paid tribute to former President Jerry John Rawlings for extending electricity to the three regions — Northern, Upper East and Upper West — as well as the Brong Ahafo Region, through the introduction of the rural and national electrification programmes.

Mr Okyere said GRIDCo had forecast peak demand to be at 2,523 MW for 2018 based on factors such as VALCO's operation of two potlines, the power supply to Burkina Faso and network expansion and rural electrification programmes for Electricity Company of Ghana and the Northern Electricity Company.

GIZ provides advisory services to Nigerian partners on rural electrification, energy efficiency and renewable energies, and has been contributing to the success of the Nigeria - German Energy Partnership (NGEP) since 2002.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

He said the 26 out of the 140 Krobo communities that were left out in the rural electrification project in some parts of Upper Manya, Yilo Krobo and the middle belt are being connected to the national electricity grid.

Mr. Mahama added that, government has approved a Chinese loan facility for the extension of electricity under the rural electrification project to all the remaining communities without electricity.

Continuing, the statement noted that the previous administration of Dr. Saraki, the current Senate President, implemented several infrastructural projects such as the Kwara State University, Malete, Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre, International Aviation College, Ilorin, Shonga farms, numerous urban and rural roads and electrification projects, remodelling of the Ilorin Township Stadium as well as pioneered the innovative Community Health Insurance Scheme.

Mr. Abdulrahman Mohammed, an Accountant with the Rural Electrification Board, Jalingo, Taraba state, today told Justice Adebunkola Banjoko of an Abuja High Court how 20 Zenith...

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

Farmers withstood the High Plains» frequent droughts and dry spells by pumping groundwater from the region's aquifers, a trend that accelerated sharply with the electrification of rural America in the early 20th century.

Rural African electrification isn't a main topic of conversation in most utility boardrooms today, just as carbon mitigation wasn't when Rogers used his chairmanship of the Edison Electric Institute to wrangle support for cap - and - trade legislation.

His program in Brazil cut rural electrification costs 70 - 90 % and brought electricity to vast rural areas of that country.

Talks will take place every 30 minutes from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Kate Lewis, The Agnes Gund Chief Conservator, speaks about Rachel Whiteread's Water Tower (1998) 11:30 a.m. Mack Cole - Edelsach, Design and Production Manager, and Matthew Cox, Exhibition Designer, Department of Exhibition Design and Production, speak about Robert Rauschenberg's Autobiography (1968) 12:00 p.m. Paulina Pobocha, Assistant Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, speaks about Louise Bourgeois's The Quartered One (1964 — 65) 12:30 p.m. Lana Hum, Director, Exhibition Design and Production, speaks about Lee Bontecou's Untitled (1961) 1:00 p.m. Pamela Popeson, Architecture and Design Preparator, speaks about Lester Beall's Rural Electrification Administration (1937) 1:30 p.m. Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, speaks about Gilbert Baker's Rainbow Flag (1978) 2:00 p.m. Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, and Jennifer Gray, Project Research Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, speak about Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenwald School, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Virginia.

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

Ill - informed and, with all due respect, blatantly false statements like the above beg for a response based on actual facts about the present reality and near - future potential of solar and wind energy — not only in industrialized countries like Germany, Japan, Australia, and the USA, but in particular to meet the needs of the developing world, where these technologies are already enabling a revolution in rural electrification.

The national security argument is compelling — think energy security (distributed PV is far less vulnerable to failure than centralized fossil power), economic security (green jobs), social security (distributed PV is ideal for rural electrification), and of course environmental security.

In partnership with the World Bank, the Government of Myanmar developed a National Electrification Plan that aims to achieve universal energy access by 2030 through grid extension and decentralized rural electrification via mini-grids and solaElectrification Plan that aims to achieve universal energy access by 2030 through grid extension and decentralized rural electrification via mini-grids and solaelectrification via mini-grids and solar home systems.

As part of the Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, the BJP's rural electrification scheme, the government had also proposed to provide free electricity connections to over 43.5 million rural households below the poverty line (BPL, with the poverty line set at Rs 816 per capita per month for rural areas).

This suggests that the challenge of 100 % electrification can only be overcome through concerted improvements at various levels — not the least in the income levels of rural households and in the reliability of power supply.

Much of the credit goes to the ambition of Modi, who has championed rural electrification and renewables since his election in 2014.

On the centralized track, electrification is undertaken by national governmental entities such as the state - owned national utility, a rural electrification agency (REA), or the ministry of energy, acting alone or together.

GRID has more than ten years of experience with successful and sustainable rural electrification projects.

To find an example of where subsidies have been successful at hitting ambitious electrification targets in rural areas that arguably would be untouchable by the private sector, one has to look no further than the electrification of rural America in the early 20th century.

Without subsidies the African rural consumer will be unique and they will bear the full cost of their power which has never happened on any other continent in the history of electrification.

One problem of course is that not all rural electrification schemes involve digitised PAYG mechanisms and mobile money platforms.

Widespread rural electrification has been held back to date by the financial obstacles to profitable distribution of power in the farming areas... Chief among the financial obstacles are the farmer's small cash income, coupled with the large unit investment required in distribution systems to serve only a few farms per mile of line.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

The Rural Electrification Act (1936) was implemented to facilitate the provision of electricity to rural areas of the Rural Electrification Act (1936) was implemented to facilitate the provision of electricity to rural areas of the rural areas of the U.S..

The challenge of developing NETs is more like rural electrification, the interstate highway system, and the green revolution.

This run of river project is adding rural electrification for farmers and local residents, at minimal cost and with a low environmental impact.

This document brings report the key messages that emerged from the Third International Off - grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC 2016), including the importance of (1) mainstreaming off - grid renewable energy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewables.

The manual focuses on three major energy - related issues: energy regulation and power sector reform; increased renewable energy technology penetration for rural electrification; and sustainable use of energy through energy efficiency in industrial, commercial and domestic sectors (including energy efficiency within buildings).

This guidance document aims to support Lao PDR in achieving the goal defined in the Rural Electrification Master Plan, namely to provide access to electricity to more than 90 per cent of households in Lao PDR by 2020.

Rural Electrification Administration (REA): A lending agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the REA makes self - liquidating loans to qualified borrowers to finance electric and telephone service to rural aRural Electrification Administration (REA): A lending agency of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the REA makes self - liquidating loans to qualified borrowers to finance electric and telephone service to rural arural areas.

«blueEnergy's approach to rural electrification focuses on manufacturing wind turbines on the Caribbean Coast, near the point of usage.

This implies that efforts to improve rural electrification for instance — even if the power is generated in a modern coal power plant — could still reduce net climate warming because of the impacts on reducing ozone, methane and black carbon.