Sentences with phrase «today have no access to electricity»
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.
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New analysis by the International Energy Agency, published here in Johannesburg, shows that 1.6 billion people today have no access to electricity.
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Today, a great majority of miners are located in China because they have access to cheap 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...
If successful, this program would provide a sustainable energy source for millions of people, many of whom do not have access to electricity today.
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.
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.
The foundations for this departure from orthodoxy have been laid by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which has essentially admitted in a series of energy access papers that the majority of those without electricity today will never be wired to the grid (PDF).
Today, 1.6 billion people do not have access to electricity in their homes.
In the fourth part of the series today, we look at how the government has performed on providing access to electricity.
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.
Today, almost half of Ghanaians never have access to electricity, or get it only a few hours a week, leaving their futures bleak.
«Today's Commission action enables the community solar market to finally begin moving forward in New York, bringing local clean energy and electricity bill savings to thousands of customers, even if they don't have a sunny roof,» said Jeff Cramer, Executive Director of the Coalition for Community Solar Access.