Featured in Spark of a yellow sun – 07-2022

More than energy access

Since the turn of the millennium the percentage of the world’s population with access to electricity has risen from 78% to 91%, according to calculations from the Alliance for Rural Electrification.

By

Mark Hutchins

18 Jul 2022

Image: pv magazine, Stefanie Loos

Solar has already played a central role in achieving this, and while progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of universal, worldwide energy access by 2030 appears to have slowed in this decade, the work continues. And many of the PV powered systems being deployed to regions not previously served by any electricity network …

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