Sentences with phrase «others without access to electricity»

While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton created a nonprofit to fund so - called clean cookstoves that are being marketed as the preferred UN solution for Africans and others without access to electricity (rather than, for example, providing electricity to them)-LRB-.

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But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to electricity.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

A growing community of energy access entrepreneurs are trying to bring off - grid products to market in Tanzania, India and other countries with large populations without electricity.

Without access to the local market, developers may have to look for customers in electricity markets in other states or wait until the Atlantic Wind Connection is complete.

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

Without access to modern electricity, income generation and other socio - economic benefits are limited.