Sentence examples for access to grid from inspiring English sources

Currently, only 40% have access to grid power with access particularly sparse in rural areas.

Only about a third of people in sub-Saharan Africa have access to grid electricity, for example.

As Barry Breen, 3G's boss, points out, more than a billion and a half people have no access to grid electricity.

Of the 1.4 billion people without access to grid electricity, most live in equatorial latitudes where the sun sets quickly and there is only a brief period of twilight.

A new report by the Africa Progress Panel, a group of experts led by Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian who once headed the UN, reckons that more than 600m poor people do not have access to grid electricity.

With the help of big western utilities, insurance companies and banks, the fund has raised some $65m so far to boost renewable energy, with a focus on innovative village power schemes.Grace Yeneza of Preferred Energy, a Philippine NGO, explains her group's work in several remote highland villages that had no access to grid electricity.

Some 400 million people in India do not have access to grid-based power and, therefore, rely on kerosene, which releases tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and claims about 1.5 million Indian lives a year.

In India, more than 200 million people live in rural areas without access to grid-connected power.

Currently 1.3 billion people live without access to grid-connected power in the world, and this number grows every year.

An important report from the European Commission suggests that if Africa could begin to adopt waste-to-energy electricity production, the technology could provide electricity for 27 million African families by 2025, a notable improvement for a continent where almost 900 million people (out of 1.1 billion) have no access to grid-distributed electricity.

With only 26% of people in Africa having access to grid-based electricity, many of the continent's population rely on dangerous and increasingly expensive kerosene lamps and candles for lighting.