India's growing energy consumption has led to increased dependence on fossil fuels like coal and oil, raising concerns over energy security and the environment. To develop a sustainable energy path, India is promoting renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass and small hydro power. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has implemented programs to develop these renewables, with technologies now commercially available including solar water heaters, wind turbines, biomass gasifiers and small hydro generators. Renewables now contribute about 5% of India's total power capacity.
India's growing energy consumption has led to increased dependence on fossil fuels like coal and oil, raising concerns over energy security and the environment. To develop a sustainable energy path, India is promoting renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass and small hydro power. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has implemented programs to develop these renewables, with technologies now commercially available including solar water heaters, wind turbines, biomass gasifiers and small hydro generators. Renewables now contribute about 5% of India's total power capacity.
India's growing energy consumption has led to increased dependence on fossil fuels like coal and oil, raising concerns over energy security and the environment. To develop a sustainable energy path, India is promoting renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass and small hydro power. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has implemented programs to develop these renewables, with technologies now commercially available including solar water heaters, wind turbines, biomass gasifiers and small hydro generators. Renewables now contribute about 5% of India's total power capacity.
India's growing energy consumption has led to increased dependence on fossil fuels like coal and oil, raising concerns over energy security and the environment. To develop a sustainable energy path, India is promoting renewable energy sources like solar, wind, biomass and small hydro power. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has implemented programs to develop these renewables, with technologies now commercially available including solar water heaters, wind turbines, biomass gasifiers and small hydro generators. Renewables now contribute about 5% of India's total power capacity.
Energy is a basic requirement for economic development. Every sector of
Indian economy agriculture, industry, transport, commercial, and domestic needs inputs of energy. The economic development plans implemented since independence have necessarily required increasing amounts of energy. As a result, consumption of energy in all forms has been steadily rising all over the country. This growing consumption of energy has also resulted in the country becoming increasingly dependent on fossil fuels such as coal and oil and gas. Rising prices of oil and gas and potential shortages in future lead to concerns about the security of energy supply needed to sustain our economic growth. Increased use of fossil fuels also causes environmental problems both locally and globally. Against this background, the country urgently needs to develop sustainable path of energy development. Promotion of energy conservation and increased use of renewable energy sources are the twin planks of a sustainable energy supply. Fortunately, India is blessed with a variety of renewable energy sources, the main ones being biomass, biogas, the sun, wind, and small hydro power. The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has been implementing comprehensive programmes for the development and utilization of various renewable energy sources in the country. As a result of efforts made during the past quarter century, a number of technologies and devices have been developed and have become commercially available. These include biogas plants, improved wood stoves, solar water heaters, solar cookers, solar lanterns, street lights, pumps, wind electric generators, water-pumping wind
mills, biomass
gasifiers, and small hydro-electric generators. India is
implementing one of the worlds largest programmes in renewable energy. The
country ranks second in the world in biogas utilization and fifth in wind power and photovoltaic production. Renewable sources already contribute to about 5% of the total power generating capacity in the country.