Sentences with phrase «without electricity access»

Through this argument, one can see that India is walking a tightrope between the twin challenges of ending energy poverty for its 400 million citizens living without electricity access while balancing the needs of the hundreds of millions more who will be impacted by a changing climate.

Through the creation of five to six new rural branches, called ILUCentros, and a micro-loan program that enables users to pay for their solar home systems in small installments over 12 months, plus government subsidies for a portion of the households, Ilumexico will enable households without electricity access to finance their solar equipment.

• Twenty high - impact countries in Asia and Africa account for about two - thirds of all people without electricity access and three - quarters of those using solid household fuels.

Estimates show an annual investment of $ 45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 «high - impact» countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $ 19.4 billion a year.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the access rate grows to 59 % in 2030, from 43 % in 2016, however, the number of people without electricity access in the region begins to grow again as efforts fail to accelerate.

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.

Not exact matches

In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.

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.

Without electricity, we would not have access to the technology that makes life so much easier.

This can leave you without access to electricity or clean water to make formula sterile for baby.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

The technology could offer a reliable source of electricity for some of the 1.5 billion people around the world without access to a supply grid.

But Richenda Van Leeuwen, the U.N. Foundation's new point woman on energy poverty, said leaders widely recognize the impossibility of achieving universal primary school education, reducing child mortality or other development targets without access to 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.

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.

The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by reducing air pollution.

«There remain 1.3 billion people without electricity today, and over four billion people without access to the Internet.

The math for those without direct access to cheap electricity gets even less favorable when you compare the Niro plug - in to its plug-less equivalent.

Mütter's story is even more remarkable given that the surgeons of the time worked without access to electricity or anesthesia.

Puca Marca is the name of the «town» built on these ruins, although the town (without road access or electricity) looked just as abandoned as the age - old ruins did.

In 2012, Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen founded the social business Little Sun, which provides clean, affordable light to communities without access to electricity and spreads awareness about the need to expand access to sustainable energy to all (www.littlesun.com).

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.

For a valuable discussion of what's possible on the ground now in accelerating electricity access in places without any options, watch the conversation I had in 2014 with Harish Hande, a renewable - energy entrepreneur in India, on the entrepreneur's role in solving energy poverty:

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.»

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.

A paradigm shift is under way in the developing world, where billions of people still live without access to electricity (around 1.2 billion) and / or clean cooking facilities (around 2.7 billion).

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.

India has several hundred million citizens without access to more than a dribble of electricity.

The first is an almost exclusive focus on basic household electricity access, often in remote areas, without attendant attention to urbanizing populations, industrializing economies, etc..

Of the 674 million people still without access to electricity in 2030, 90 % live in sub-Saharan Africa.

A key finding is that universal access to electricity and clean cooking can be reached without making this task any more challenging.

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).

It charges quickly from the sun so my camera, phone, and GoPro can all be charged up during any trip without access to electricity.

Hosted by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), the Forum is focused on addressing the key challenges in delivering universal energy access to the billion people globally who are still living without basic modern energy services, such as electricity, and the three billion who lack access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking.

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in Asia, with more than 60 % of the population without access to a modern form of electricity, denying people the ability to work, weakening health and safety, education, and limiting the opportunity to rise out of poverty.

A growing community of energy access entrepreneurs are trying to bring off - grid products to market in Tanzania, India and other countries with large populations without electricity.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

Worldwide CO2 levels will almost undoubtedly continue to rise for several decades regardless of US actions as 3 billion people worldwide currently without electricity or personal transportation will gain access to these items in the coming decades.

«We can't tell an electorate... when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have to put a cap on this.»

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.

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.

We don't want to leave anyone behind in the transition of our energy system, especially the millions of people around the world without adequate access to electricity today and those living in energy poverty.

Through SkyPower Cares, we gift portable home solar systems and lights to families around the world without sufficient access to electricity.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

Electricity planners often confront the energy access gap by increasing supply, without considering how consumers actually use and pay for eElectricity planners often confront the energy access gap by increasing supply, without considering how consumers actually use and pay for electricityelectricity.

Energy is fundamental to modern life, but 1.3 billion people around the world live without «access to modern electricity.»

The International Energy Agency says more than 1.3 billion people around the world have no access to electricity, and 2.6 billion are without clean cooking facilities.

Without access to the local market, developers may have to look for customers in electricity markets in other states or wait until the Atlantic Wind Connection is complete.

Of the world's 20 countries with the largest number of people without electricity, only five - Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda - provide comprehensive policy support for energy access according to the Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE).