Sentences with phrase «still have no access to electricity»

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

But there are still 1.2 billion people around the world who don't have any access to electricity at all.

With more than a billion people still without much access to electricity (and many more than that who would like access to more) and all the life - improving benefits that come with it, we still have a long way to go.

Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off - grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.

As for myself, I have a mini-split, so have access to A / C (and I even have excess electricity I'm producing beyond net - zero), but I still bend over backwards to avoid mechanical cooling, though on warm nights we do use a ceiling fan.

Despite billions invested in the energy sector, 1.3 billion people still do not have access to electricity.