Renewable Energy India

India is the world's most populous country which gives a special urgency to it's need to find renewable energy sources. In addition to it's population, India also has one of the world's fastest expanding economies which means that it's energy needs will only increase in the future. Studies in India project that sometime before 2050, the use of fossil fuels will become unsustainable because of price increases caused by diminishing supply.

But in addition to the supply of non-renewable sources of energy such as coal and oil running out, they are fairly inefficient as well as being extremely bad for the environment.

Therefore, renewables are expected to play a key role in India's accelerating development and in helping it sustain its growth in the second half of the next century.

In their quest for energy independence, India feels the need to be able to find and implement a variety of renewable energy sources to replace it's current dependency on traditional forms of non-renewable energy such as coal, natural gas, oil, and nuclear fuel.

In fact, a sign of India's aggressive commitment towards developing renewable energy sources is that Live Earths 2008 event is being held in India and feature performances by Jon Bon Jovi as well as other world-renowned musicians and performers. The primary goal of Live Earth India is to raise money for the "Lighting a Billion Lives" initiative which seeks to introduce solar lanterns to small towns and villages across India.

A solar lantern charges it's battery by using solar cells to capture the sun's energy. These lanterns are only slightly larger than the kerosene lanterns that they are replacing and future advancements in solar cell technology promises to reduce the size even further. This replacement of kerosene lanterns with solar lanterns is simply the latest in a number of ways of attempting to introduce renewable energy to India.

Wind Generated Energy for Home and Businesses

Another form of renewable energy establishing itself in India is wind power which has become one of India's more successful renewable energy programs. India's wind energy programs have become so successful that they now rank #4 in the world - just behind Germany, the United States, and Spain. India helps to promote the use of renewable energy sources through a combination of rebates and attractive loan policies for companies willing to take advantage of the new fuel resources.  You can read more about India's wind energy program as well as other renewable energy program at www.indianwindpower.

India has become a very forward looking society and, as we speak, is developing expertise in many forms of renewable energies such as wind, solar thermal, solar photovoltaics, biomass, hydro, and others.

India will not be phasing out non-renewable energy sources completely anytime soon. But they have begun to aggressively phase out many of the non-renewable energy culprits so that the next generation will grow up with an entirely different set of expectations of fuel use. And that can only be good for India as well as the world.

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