2021/11/26
What is Solar Energy?
Electricity has been an essential need for our day-to-day working as it powers all our household equipments. Now the basic question comes how is Electricity produced in India? India is a very diverse country with long coastline, has a big desert, has the Himalayas – the youngest mountains up in the north, has a vast flat fertile land, many perennial rivers etc. This also makes a huge potential of use of renewable and non-renewable sources to produce electricity.
As of Jan, 2021, India has been heavily dependent upon fossil energy with 61.4% that includes Thermal power, Lignite power, Gas power, Diesel. All these fossil fuels take millions of years to form and we cannot continue to depend upon them. With the initiatives undertaken by the Govt. of India and Ministry of New & Renewable Energy this has moved dependence from fossil fuels that was over 70% to almost 60% over the last few years. This gap has been covered majorly by hydropower (electricity through dams on rivers), solar power (electricity from sun through solar panels) & wind power (electricity from wind turbines) at 34.1% with biomass adding another 2.6%. These are called renewable or natural resources that do not take much time to replenish.