One of the things that motivates and inspires me is the impact that access to electricity has on a society. Did you know that 15 percent of the world's population does not have access to electricity? When I first learned that, I thought, "15 percent, that's lower than I expected." But then I realized that 15 percent translates to 1.1 billion people who do not have access to electricity. In 2017, the International Energy Agency described the impact that access to electricity has on cooking methods. Without electricity, many people rely on coal, kerosene, or biomass-including animal waste-for cooking in the household. Air pollution linked to these sources causes an estimated 2.8 million premature deaths around the world every year.
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