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title: Electrification
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## Definition

**Electrification** means \[the process of\] converting or replacing infrastructure, machines, appliances, devices and other objects which are powered by fossil fuels so that electricity is used as a permanent replacement power source.

**Electrification** means the conversion of a \[town\] \[village\] \[region\] \[rural OR remote population\] to a\[n\] \[on-grid\] \[mini-grid\] \[off-grid\] electrical power source.