Sentences with phrase «to have access to electricity»

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

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

Coal exports will certainly be helping some of the 1.4 billion people on this earth who don't have access to any electricity at all.

This means that not much would be left for the billions of poor who have no access to electricity or clean cooking fuel or modern means of transportation.

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

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

More than a billion people worldwide — one in six people — don't yet have access to electricity.

We forget that there are 600 million people who don't even have access to electricity.

Apart from those people who purposely choose to live off - grid, pretty much everyone has access to electricity of some sort.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

He pointed out that currently about 76 percent of the people of people in the country have access to good drinking water while about 80 percent of the citizens have access to electricity.

Nowadays, less than half of the houses on the island have access to electricity.

Each site has access to electricity and its own braai facilities.

Three solar panels, neon lamps and other electrical appliances ensure that the children can continue their studies after dark as the village has no access to electricity.

In refugee camps, 90 % of families have no access to electricity.

These projects, often in urban or industrial areas that already have access to electricity, are unlikely to reach those lacking access to energy.

Most citizens can't afford a vehicle of any type, and many have no access to electricity.

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.

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

Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week, leaving their futures bleak.

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.

More than 620 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to electricity, a situation that can keep people in poverty.

New analysis by the International Energy Agency, published here in Johannesburg, shows that 1.6 billion people today have no access to electricity.

Electric pumps are usually not portable, and manual pumps may be a better choice if you don't have access to electricity while traveling.

In rural India, about 134 million families earn less than $ 2.50 a day, and only half have access to electricity.

As recently as 2012, 35 % of health - care facilities in Sierra Leone had no access to electricity.

According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), 237 million people in India have no access to electricity.

«Approximately 1.3 billion people on our planet still do not have access to electricity for basic needs like clean water, cooking, sanitation, light, or for the safe storage of food and medicine.

In 2014, only 16 percent of rural homes in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar have access to electricity.

According to the World Bank, 100 % of registered homes in the United States have access to the electricity grid, so it is unusual for a cell tower to be «off - grid,» and thus require a distributed source of energy in order to operate.

At the moment, many Africans currently have no access to electricity at all or at best significantly less than Europeans, let alone Americans.

598 million people in Africa alone have no access to electricity.

In a world where up to half of the population either has no access to electricity whatsoever, or only severely limited access, a home energy device powered by humans could have a big impact in the developing world, and one philanthropist is willing to put his money where his mouth is in order to potentially change the lives of billions.

Global Tracking Framework 2015 estimates that, as of 2012, 85 % of the global population had access to electricity, translating into more than 220 million people gaining access since 2010.

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.

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

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.

Given that 20 % of the world does not even have access to electricity, history books may marvel at how screwed priorities were, and how bureaucratized science cost so much more than the price of the grants.

The annual average investment needed over 2010 - 30 to ensure everyone has access to electricity in the 17 high - impact countries covered by the Access Investment Model (AIM) ranges from just over $ 1 billion to provide everyone with access to 24 hours of electricity a day on very low - powered appliances (i.e tier 1) to around $ 40 billion to provide everyone with access to 23 hours of electricity a day on very high - powered appliances (i.e. tier 5).

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.

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

What is more shocking is that, in the absence of radical new policies, 1.4 billion people will still have no access to electricity in 30 years time; and the number reliant on primitive biomass for cooking and heating will actually rise, to 2.6 billion.

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.

At an event earlier this year, Google's vice president of energy John Woolard said that his «whole team is looking at the developing world and the 1.3 billion who don't have access to electricity.»

«Too many families are forced to breathe in toxic kerosene fumes because they don't have access to electricity.

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.

This provides ample options for you to keep your baby comfortable anytime whether you have access to electricity or not.