Sentences with phrase «who have no 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.

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.

«Especially for the 400 million Indians who have no access to electricity, solar power would mean access to clean and affordable energy.»

Not exact matches

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.

They won't help hurricane victims who don't have electricity (and therefore no access to the Internet), but it might get some of you all thinking about how to be prepared should disaster strike in your area.

An official of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that electricity generation had been dwindling due to challenge of accessing gas by generation companies.

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.

For a study of the technology, the researchers enlisted street vendors who had no access to grid electricity.

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.

So while the children in Carinto may not have access to running water and electricity at home, ConTextos has been able to provide them with access to a library and trained teachers who can help foster more than just literacy.

More importantly, in my opinion, there are hundreds of millions of human beings on Earth who desperately and urgently need MORE energy — particularly access to electricity, which millions have never had — if they are to have any hope of participating in what readers of this blog like to think of as «advanced civilization».

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.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

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

Access to portable light means savings for families who would otherwise pay for expendable light sources, such as kerosene, charcoal, electricity, etc..

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.

It deals with pipelines within the state that would connect customers who currently don't have access to natural gas for heating and cooking (a more efficient use of energy than burning gas for electricity to perform the same functions).

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.

The target market is the billions of people around the world without access to electricity, who use kerosene lamps or camp fires for light and, also, have virtually no access to news, except for battery - operated radios (when they can afford batteries).

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.

«There are billions of people on earth who don't have any electricity at all and a couple billion people who don't have adequate access to electricity.

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

Now almost 1.44 million people who previously had little access to electricity have an improved quality of life through better light, communications and entertainment.

But for others, who live in parts of the world with little to no access to power, whether it's because of lacking infrastructure or from the impacts from disaster or war (or just a lack of money to acquire it), having a solar charger and a battery to store the electricity in can make a huge — even a lifesaving — difference.

Doña Maria (pictured above) moved from being one of the 1.4 billion people without access to electricity to one of the several million people who now receive modest amounts of electricity from a solar home system (SHS), which have emerged as keystone technologies in international efforts to address energy poverty.