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India is the Saudi Arabia of renewable energy sources and, if properly utilized, India can realize its place in the world as a great power — but political will is required for the eventual shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. India is aiming to expand its solar energy facilities so as to build ‘Green India’ through harnessing abundant solar radiation as well as to achieve energy security for the country. There are multifold reasons behind india giving impetus to solar energy: BENEFITS
Rural electrification
Around 18,000 villages in India are yet unelectrified. India has huge task in front of it to bring electricity to theses villages. Villages in India need off grid solutions for power supply as there is no micro grid connected with main transmission grid. Using FFs like coal for power generation would be difficult and will cost immensely in terms of environment degradation. India is looking for various alternative clean fuels which can serve dual purpose of energy needs as well as clean environment. Given the present condition of grids in accessible areas, extending them to rural populations is an expensive proposition. As India has an abundant solar energy available in most parts of the country, a better option would be distributed, community level, renewable energy based solar photo-voltaic (PV) mini grids. Off-grid solar power plants can be considered as transitory till the grid arrives. Solar mini-grids is non polluting and promotes decentralized development.
Solar lamps replaced kerosene lamps Off-grid decentralized systems, based on renewable energy(solar, biomass etc) are lighting up around 1,000 villages through government funding. Before this, subsidized kerosene was needed to light a bulb . Kerosene lamps convert 65 per cent of their energy to light. Kerosene lamps cause local and indoor air pollution. Kerosene and candles cause countless fire catastrophes every year. Kerosene is far more expensive than electric lighting. Solar powered lamps can replace the need for kerosene for lightening .
Agricultural support Solar powered water pumping system can fulfill power needs of farmers as well as it is renewable and clean source of energy. Indian agriculture is both under-irrigated and over-irrigated. A severe groundwater crisis is looming in several states even as millions of farmers remain vulnerable to the vagaries of the monsoon. It has become increasingly challenging to provide affordable irrigation services through conventional technologies, both from fiscal and environmental perspectives. The agriculture power subsidy burden has been rising steadily. Yet farmers have to contend with unreliable and poor quality power supply. Currently farmers in India uses diesel pump sets which are both expensive to run and environmentally hazardous. Solar pumps could help fill irrigation gaps, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and help farmers adapt to climate change impacts. Solar water heaters Solar water heater is a system that utilizes solar energy to heat water. It has a system that is installed on a terrace or open space where it can get sunlight and the energy from the sun is then used to heat water and store it in an insulated tank. The system is not connected to electricity supply and thus does not have an on-off switch, but it uses the sunlight throughout the day to heat the water and store it in the storage tank. Installing solar water heaters helps in saving units of electricity , if number of clear sunny days are more, number of units of electricity saved will increase. To generate 1500 units of electricity from a coal-based power plant, 1.5 tone of CO2 /year is released in atmosphere. One million solar water heating systems installed in homes can result in reduction of 1.5 million tone of CO2 emission in atmosphere. Solar Parks India is planning to build Solar parks that can enable development of solar power in remote areas where land is inexpensive. Transmission system will be developed for the entire Park. India will emerge as a major solar power producing country as nowhere in the world are solar parks are being developed on such a large scale.
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