{"id":1818,"date":"2024-02-02T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ieeepels.wpengine.com\/?page_id=1818"},"modified":"2025-01-29T13:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:04:14","slug":"energy-access-committee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ieee-pels.org\/technical-activities\/energy-access-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"PELS Energy Access Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1818\" class=\"elementor elementor-1818\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c83d67 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3c83d67\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">About this Program<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4953eb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4953eb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The PELS Energy Access Committee provides workshops, special sessions, tracks, and topics of interest and organizes the Empower a Billion Lives Global Competition to crowdsource solutions to energy access.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b9d1db elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"2b9d1db\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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