Status And Potential Of Renewable Energy Resources In India

Abstract

Global energy needs are rising rapidly, as are greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector. Today, India is a large consumer of fossil fuel such as coal and crude oil. The rapid increase in use of non- renewable energies such as fossil fuel, oil, natural gas has created problems of demand and supply. Because of which, the future of non- renewable energies is becoming uncertain. Also India has had a negative energy balance for decades, which has resulted in the need to purchase energy from outside the country to fulfil the needs of the entire country. Even though, the Ministry of Power has set an agenda of providing power to all by 2012. This paper reviews the status of different renewable energy resources in India, the potential and identifies barriers and strategies for accelerated deployment. It gives an overview of the renewable energies in India while evaluating the current status and the deployment of each of these technologies to date in India. It also reviews the multi-criteria assessment of different renewable energy and draws out vital conclusions. It is based on the secondary information collected from various mass media including internet, various reports and other international institutions.