Sentences with phrase «without access to electricity»

To top things off, the stove also generates electricity — enough to charge a mobile phone, for example — making it a handy piece of kit for people without access to electricity.
Today there are 1.3 billion people across the globe without access to electricity.
Just pack a few batteries and you will be able to operate the GPS without any access to electricity for days.
Until recently, she was one of 1.4 billion people on this planet without access to electricity.
There are 1.2 billion people without access to electricity and 2.7 billion without modern cooking facilities.
A: There are now 1.2 billion people across the globe without access to electricity.
Of the 674 million people still without access to electricity in 2030, 90 % live in sub-Saharan Africa.
EcoZoom makes clean burning, portable wood - and charcoal - powered cook stoves for use among global populations without access to electricity.
But, despite this momentum, in the New Policies Scenario around 675 million people — 90 % of them in sub-Saharan Africa — remain without access to electricity in 2030 (down from 1.1 billion today), and 2.3 billion continue to rely on biomass, coal or kerosene for cooking (from 2.8 billion today).
Together with engineer Frederik Ottesen, Eliasson developed the Little Sun solar - powered light for use in areas of the world without access to electricity.
Mütter's story is even more remarkable given that the surgeons of the time worked without access to electricity or anesthesia.
Artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen developed the Little Sun solar - powered lamp to get clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.6 billion people worldwide without access to electricity.
The number of people without access to electricity fell to below 1.1 billion people for the first time in 2016, with nearly 1.2 billion people having gained access since 2000, 500 million of which were in India.
It charges quickly from the sun so my camera, phone, and GoPro can all be charged up during any trip without access to electricity.
While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton created a nonprofit to fund so - called clean cookstoves that are being marketed as the preferred UN solution for Africans and others without access to electricity (rather than, for example, providing electricity to them)-LRB-.
According to a big report put out by the Indian government in August 2017, there are some 304 million Indians without access to electricity; and India plans to get them electricity mostly by building more coal plants:
And without access to electricity kerosene is often the fuel of choice for both cooking and illumination.
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.
It houses the largest proportion of global poor (30 %), around 24 % of the global population without access to electricity (304 million), about 30 % of the global population relying on solid biomass for cooking and 92 million without access to safe drinking water.
SkyPower, under the guidance of the Government of Kenya, will distribute two million solar kits to homes and working families across the nation currently without access to electricity.
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).
Consoli noted that the development of such systems, which would be decentralized, also has the benefit of empowering (in every sense of the word) people around the globe without access to electricity, or the capital to create it with current centralized generation technologies.
Developing countries have an important stake in this future — this is where most of the 1.4 billion people without access to electricity live yet also where some of the best conditions exist for renewable energy deployment».
Sunlight can still reach the 1.3 billion people in the world who live without access to electricity.4 First Solar wants to close that gap, offering solar - power - generating capabilities to new regions globally.
This can leave you without access to electricity or clean water to make formula sterile for baby.
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.
Since 2012, Eliasson has also run Little Sun, a certified B Corporation that produces small, solar - powered LED lamps with the aim to provide clean, affordable, and renewable light to communities without access to electricity.
Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»
India faces power shortages that leave more than 400 million people without access to electricity, mainly in poor rural areas.
These solar systems are manufactured by SkyPower Home, the exclusive sole global licensee for SkyPower that offers innovative personal portable and small home solar systems and solutions to bring the highest quality, efficient and clean solar energy to families living without access to electricity.
Biofuels such as ethanol can be a cleaner job - generating energy source for 1.6 billion people who live without access to electricity, the authors say.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that 304 million people in India are without access to electricity.
In 2017, the extractives sector such as coal mining in South Africa and oil extraction in Nigeria, is a major contributor to both Africa's energy and GDP yet over 600 million Africans are still without access to electricity.
Energy demand in Southeast Asia grows at one of the fastest rates in the world yet around 65 million people across the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries are without access to electricity.
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.
Young Guineans, without access to electricity, study under carpark lights at G'bessi airport in Conakry, Guinea.
At the same time, an estimated 400 million Indians are without access to electricity, and current government plans to provide energy to all are heavily dependent on accelerating fossil fuel use.
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.
This is the least - cost option for the vast majority of the 1.6 million currently without access to electricity, although other forms of generation and an expansion of transmission lines are also planned to meet increasing demand from the region.
Still, around 65 million people across the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are without access to electricity.
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