Growth in Electricity Availability Must Double to Achieve Global Access, Report Says

Growth in Electricity Availability Must Double to Achieve Global Access, Report Says

The rate of expansion of access to electricity will have to double over the next 17 years if the world's population is to achieve 100 percent access to modern energy, a new report says. While about 1.7 billion people became connected to electricity sources worldwide between 1990 and 2010, that increase barely outpaced population growth during that period, according to Sustainable Energy for All, a

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