Bring out
the prospect of development of alternative energy sources of India.
Alternative source of energy like solar, wind, tidal, geothermal
etc are gradually been adapted and adopted, as the technology for efficiently
harnessing these is being developed and the cost is adequately been reduced.
Such alternative sources of energy are renewable by nature and have also the
advantage of generally producing energy in a non polluting form. Incidently India
has a vast potential to harness solar and wind energy. India’s North-west part,
Eastern and Western coast have great potential of wind energy.
Bio-diesel in the recent times has
opened a promising prospect. Several R and D projects have been taken up in the
country to develop technologies to convert different non-edible vegetable oils
to bio-diesel. Oil from Jatropha plants have also been used as bio-diesel. Attempts
are being made to launch an operational programme on the use of these bio-fuels
in the transport sector.
Field trial with ethanol blends in
petrol and diesel have also been taken up in the country under several
projects.
Realizing the need, the Government has
set up an expert committee on Integrated Energy Policy headed by Kirit Parikh. The
committee lays emphasis on realization of full potential of hydro-energy. It also
suggests starting several technology missions on solar technologies for thermal
and photo voltaic and biofuel, as well as bio-gas gasification.
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