The companies market, sell, and maintain their product in rural areas that do not have access to an electricity grid.

这些公司在没有电力的农村地区推广、销售和保养它们的产品。

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Stimulus money found its way into school reform, a smart grid for electricity and expanded access to broadband internet.

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Sustainable forms of energy can also play a key role in income generation - a primary path out of poverty for the millions who do not have access to reliable grid-distributed electricity.

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Meanwhile, the energy for everything else--offices, factories, homes and data centers is 85% supplied without oil, and most of it is delivered as kilowatt-hours. (Only a vanishingly 2% of electricity is generated by oil.) Once you connect automobiles to the electric grid, you access a trillion-barrel-of-oil-equivalent energy infrastructure almost entirely fueled by domestic sources: coal, uranium, natural gas and hydro dams.

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