Renewables to provide people in third world countries with electricity

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Around the world, more than 1 billion people lack the access to electricity. This number has shrunk by one third since 2000, and half of the progress has been due to coal power, a recent report by the International Energy Agency shows.

With declining prices for renewable power, and the fact that most of these people live i...