Absolutely, yes. Many more people can now afford light. My grandma (born 1926, died 2016) was born in Eastern Slovakia in the pre-electric era, the region she

Absolutely, yes. Many more people can now afford light. My grandma (born 1926, died 2016) was born in Eastern Slovakia in the pre-electric era, the region she lived in only got connected to the grid in 1945. In her youth, the whole family would simply have one kerosene lamp and gather around it after dark.