We do have electricity in the area, but we're not tied into any of the homes yet.
Starting a business is not always straight forward in may countries in Africa, the business ecosystem is almost non existent in many countries, we still have electricity issues, getting funding to start a business is still challenging in most parts of Africa, people aren't trained enough to execute essentials jobs, degrees gained by most African are useless or have no purpose in the job markets.
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My village is rather well developed, we have gas, electricity, water.
We have basic utilities, electricity, gas, water, fuel for our cars.
Mr. RICO PIERRE (Haitian Election Worker) (Through Translator): We got here at five in the morning, but we didn't have electricity or any tables and chairs.
The problem is this: we have a highly complicated electricity grid with approximately 3, 500 utilities, thousands of power plants, 200, 000 miles of lines, and tens of thousands of transformers.
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But they were also, you know, asking, you know, when is it that we're going to have electricity?
"We have decided to cut the electricity of the central prison during the daytime to send a message, " Mr Alimi said.
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Today we have roughly 40 percent of our electricity is in clean energy, if you consider the nuclear, the wind, the solar -- natural gas counting half credit.
On the other hand, from the perspective of the developing countries like China and India, they're saying to themselves, per capita our carbon footprint remains very small, and we have hundreds of millions of people who don't even have electricity yet, so for us to get bound by a set of legal obligations could potentially curtail our ability to develop, and that's not fair.
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We've also struggled with the fact that as the demand for electricity generation and power have greatly increased, we have not in 30 years built any additional nuclear facilities.
It makes no difference whether we have a magic box that simply spouts electricity, some foreigners make it for us or we make it.
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"We have an obligation to Mutual Energy as electricity consumers indirectly to make up any shortfall in their revenue, otherwise they won't be able to pay the cost of their borrowing - which we have guaranteed from the day they undertook that borrowing, " Mr Simpson explained.
This week, a team of Finnish researchers did what we would have thought was impossible, building an electricity-free computer that's powered by water droplets.
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By engaging in public-private collaboration as we have done with utilities and others in the electricity sector, perhaps we can find opportunities to work with the auto industry to make useful data more easily available to drivers.
There was no wind-generated electricity, and we didn't have the nation's most advanced building and appliance efficiency standards as we later adopted.
But we also have to look at other ways of generating electricity.
How far do we have to go to get to a place that has electricity?
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As part of the system, we have a display in the kitchen that tells us how much electricity we are using and how fast nature is replenishing our supply.
Now, if we want to have everybody getting maximum use out of an electric car or a hybrid car, part of what we have to do is to create a similar distribution mechanism for electricity.
"According to our results, a battery electric vehicle, with electricity produced by the power generation mix we currently have in Europe, compares favourably in the magnitude of 10% or so with diesel, " Daimler's chief executive Dieter Zetsche told the BBC.
We do not have the convenience of gas and pay exorbitant amounts for electricity, oil and coal.
"We now have very strong evidence that Brazil's ability to generate electricity depends on forest conservation, " said co-author Dr Daniel Nepstad, executive director of IPAM-IP.
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"We have a once-in-a-generation chance to rebuild our electricity market, rebuild investor confidence, and rebuild our power stations, " Mr Huhne said.
If the use of renewables generated electricity becomes cheaper than that of fossil fuel generated then we really will have cracked the problem.
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We have the potential to be a global center for the production of clean, renewable electricity a commodity that is certain to be in high demand in the decades to come.
Some of the conditions we have to work and operate in for long periods of time lack basic things like electricity and running water, before you get on to providing the security that we're there to do.
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