Sentences with phrase «people have access to electricity»

Worldwide about 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity and 1 billion more have access only to unreliable electricity networks.

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

More than 1 billion people have no access to electricity, and coal offers a cheap and reliable way to turn the lights on and heat homes.

EIA expects household per capita disposable income to grow by an average of 3.2 % per year as more people have access to electricity and the ownership of electricity - using appliances and equipment (particularly air conditioners) grows.

In rural sub-Saharan Africa, only one in six people has access to electricity.

Secondary school education was available to 95 % of the population only in 37 out of 117 countries, and out of the 151 countries in the sample, there were only 59 where 95 % of the people had access to electricity.

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At a press conference, Perry said it was immoral to withhold fossil fuel - powered electricity from the many people around the world who do not have access to power.

Off.Grid: Electric is a massively scalable solar leasing company offering radically affordable energy for the 1.6 billion people who don't have access to electricity.

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...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said 50 million people out of the nation's 180 million population have no access to electricity.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the Modi government has made it clear that with more than 20 percent of the country's residents still living below the poverty line and 300 million people still without access to electricity, India is at a very different economic level than China.

If successful, this program would provide a sustainable energy source for millions of people, many of whom do not have access to electricity today.

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.

Across the globe today, some 1.6 billion people have scant access to electricity, and the designers hope to make the lamp available to 50 million of them within ten years.

India still has 300 million people, rural and urban, with no ready access to electricity.

The reality is that many of those people, and millions of others like them throughout the developing world who have NO access to electricity, will NEVER have access to fossil - fuel - fired electricity because no one is ever going to build the centralized power plants and the grid to deliver electricity to them.

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.»

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.

As Michael Wines reported last year, the 700 million people of sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa have access to the same amount of electricity used by the 38 million people of Poland.

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

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.

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.

There are some positive signs: over 100 million people per year have gained access to electricity since 2012 compared with around 60 million per year from 2000 to 2012.

Over the last three decades, according to the World Bank, China has achieved universal access to electricity — 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty and connected to the electricity grid.

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

Currently about 60 percent of India's electricity comes through coal, while some 300 million people do not have access to electricity at all.

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.

The CAT report also covers the plight of the one billion people who still have no access to electricity.

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

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 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 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.

«We can't tell an electorate... when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.»

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.

The International Energy Agency's Africa Energy Outlook - a Special Report in the 2014 World Energy Outlook series - indicates that some 625 million people in Africa do not have access to electricity, while another estimated 730 million Africans on the continent use dirty and potentially hazardous fuels to cook.

Although universal access to electricity remains beyond reach, since at the current pace there will be an estimated 674 million people still without electricity in 2030, the number of people gaining access to power has been accelerating since 2010.

The Minister noted that people were on a steep learning curve and would need to move quickly to harness the possibilities of the industry, including funding, planning, accessing electricity grid connections and choosing the best technology available.

1.7 billion people on our planet still have no access to electricity and live in daily struggle just to survive.

Providing electricity to 1.2 billion people who don't have access to reliable sources of energy is a key component to ending extreme poverty worldwide by 2030, according to a World Bank Group report.

Bihar is typical of India's rural states: it has more than 100 million people, less than one - fifth of whom have access to reliable electricity.

The International Energy Agency says more than 1.3 billion people around the world have no access to electricity, and 2.6 billion are without clean cooking facilities.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Yet one billion people in the world today have no access to electricity, and roughly three times that number use dirty cooking fuels, whose smoke is killing more than four million people a year.

Over 700 million people — twice the population of the USA and Canada combined — rarely or never have access to the lifesaving, prosperity - creating benefits of electricity, notes Cudjoe.

Sub-Saharan Africa — the least electrified region with over 600 million people without electricity in 2014 — has one of the least developed policy environments to support energy access.

This is sorely needed in a country where nearly 300 million people do not have access to electricity.

The paper notes that poor people are most likely to be affected, as they typically lack access to electricity and have to resort to cheaper fuels that produce more indoor smoke.