Patchy progress on electricity access casts shadow on global goal
Barcelona, Spain Thomson Reuters Foundation People are gaining access to electricity at a faster pace as governments ramp up efforts in India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Kenya – but the prospects for many African countries remain gloomy, international agencies said last week. Globally, those living without electricity dropped to about 840 million in 2017 from one […]
Postcards: Women bring light to remote villages on the islands of Zanzibar
NICKY MILNE reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on how a solar power training scheme aimed at women is changing lives…
Uganda shakes up electricity access amid global infrastructure reset
Barcelona, Spain Thomson Reuters Foundation Electricity providers in Uganda are teaming up to find a new business model to boost the speed and efficiency of getting power to those living without it, in the hope it can be copied in other parts of Africa and Asia, project backers said this week. About one billion people […]
Finance for electricity access too little, too dirty – energy body
Thomson Reuters Foundation Finance to provide electric power to nearly one billion people who live without it is rising – but too slowly to meet a global goal to reach everyone by 2030, an international body said on Monday. Meanwhile, funding to expand cleaner, more energy-efficient cooking has declined, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) said […]
Power-for-all push risks leaving out Africa’s poorest – official
Thomson Reuters Foundation Parts of Africa will get left behind in the global push to provide electric power to all unless national governments and the international community agree on a plan for faster action in places that are lagging, a top energy official has warned. Of the roughly one billion people who still lack access […]
Electricity
I love it. When humanity first discovered – and was able to harness – electricity, they thought they had found ‘it’, the secret to life! The thing that animates people and animals. The Divine Spark! PICTURE: Jonas Kaiser/Unsplash Why, they could send a spark down a dead frog’s leg and get it to jump! An unconscious […]