Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. Eng., St Joseph´´s Coll. of Eng., Chennai, India
Abstract :
Renewable energy resources sector growth in India has been significant, even for electricity generation from renewable sources. Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable (naturally replenished). Even for the decentralized systems, the growth for solar home lighting systems has been 300%, solar lanterns 99% and solar photovoltaic water pumps 196%. This is a phenomenal growth in the renewable energy sector mainly for applications that were considered to be supplied only through major electricity utilities. Some large projects have been proposed, and a 35,000 km2 area of the Thar Desert has been set aside for solar power projects, sufficient to generate 700 to 2,100 gigawatts. Renewable energy systems are also being looked upon as a major application for electrification of 20,000 remote and unelectrified villages and hamlets by 2007 and all households in such villages and hamlets by 2012.
Keywords :
geothermal power; natural resources; photovoltaic power systems; power consumption; solar power; India; Thar desert; decentralized systems; electricity generation; geothermal heat; natural resources; renewable energy resources; solar home lighting systems; solar lanterns; solar photovoltaic water pumps; solar power projects; Biology; Combustion; Energy efficiency; Wind; World Wide Web; biomass; photovoltaic; renewable energy programs; solar; wind;
