Sentences with phrase «percent electricity access»

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...

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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.

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.

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.

He and others argued that at least 50 percent of the bank's energy lending should be aimed at access for the rural poor, focusing on small and decentralized electricity projects.

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.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

Ontario's hydropower, the growth of renewable energy and the province's access to natural gas and nuclear power helped to make the transition from 25 percent coal - fired electricity to zero possible.

Estimates show an annual investment of $ 45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 «high - impact» countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $ 19.4 billion a year.

Just over a quarter of development finance commitments for electricity access, or 28 percent, reached the 20 high - impact countries over 2011 - 15, with delays and under - disbursements being very common, especially for large grid - based energy infrastructure projects.

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

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

Among the positive trends: the primary energy intensity of the global economy improved at a faster 2.8 % pace in 2015; for the first time in all regions of the world, electricity access grew faster than population growth; in Bangladesh and Mongolia, energy access gains were nearly 10 percent.

Times News Network: The Centre aims to achieve «electricity for all» by 2027 while 75 million households still don't have access to electricity and only two percent of renewable energy into the grid by 2021.

In 2014, 80 percent of people without access to electricity were living in just 20 high impact countries, all of them in Sub - Saharan Africa and Asia.

(At 7 percent of electricity from solar, 15 percent from wind, and a significant amount of hydro - electric generation access, Vermont has one of the highest penetration rates for renewable energy.

In the Asia Pacific region, the policy framework for access to electricity is more favorable and this is reflected in access rates of 90.3 percent in 2014 compared to 37 percent in Sub - Saharan Africa.

Electricity expansion growth will have to double to meet the 100 percent access target by 2030.

We propose an Affordable Energy Program that would limit energy burdens to 6 percent of gross household income, universal access to solar energy in a manner that would make electricity cheaper, and efficiency programs that would reduce the cost of assistance as well as the need for assistance.

«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).

The International Energy Agency estimates that more than 1.2 billion people, or 14 percent of the world's population, lack access to electricity, and twice that many, 2.6 billion, live without clean cooking facilities.

Three - quarters of the global population uses just 10 percent of the world's energy, 1 billion people lack access to electricity, and 3 billion cook their food over dung, wood, and charcoal, leading to millions of early deaths.