{"id":5984,"date":"2012-01-05T06:57:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T11:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:21","slug":"solar-power-for-the-worlds-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/solar-power-for-the-worlds-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power for the World\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery_pope_table_3_globalsolar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery_pope_table_3_globalsolar-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gallery_pope_table_3_globalsolar\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery_pope_table_3_globalsolar-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery_pope_table_3_globalsolar.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Energy Bulletin has a <a href=\"http:\/\/energybulletin.net\/stories\/2012-01-04\/solar-power-grid-energy-access-world%E2%80%99s-poor\" target=\"_blank\">thought-provoking article by Carl Pope<\/a> in which the author suggests ways to increase electricity inclusion in poor countries and make it clean at the same time.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The best way &#8230; is to launch a global initiative to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/solar-articles.htm\" target=\"_blank\">solar panels<\/a> and other forms of distributed renewable power to poor villages and neighbourhoods\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, said Pope.<\/p>\n<p>He said there is an opportunity in the fact that more than 1.2 billion lack access to electricity and they could benefit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\" target=\"_blank\">alternative energy<\/a> sources such as off-grid solar power and LED lights.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Bulletin has a thought-provoking article by Carl Pope in which the author suggests ways to increase electricity inclusion in poor countries and make it clean at the same time. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-solar-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}