Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and biomass offer sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and can help address environmental problems. India has abundant renewable resources that can be used to generate power through commercially viable technologies. As of 2001, around 3,000MW of renewable capacity had been installed, accounting for 3% of total capacity. India plans to add around 12,000MW of renewable capacity by 2012, with around half coming from wind and significant contributions from biomass and small hydro. The government has set targets to add renewable capacity of 6,500MW during the 9th plan, 13,000MW during the 10th plan, and 19,500MW during the 11th plan through 2022.
Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and biomass offer sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and can help address environmental problems. India has abundant renewable resources that can be used to generate power through commercially viable technologies. As of 2001, around 3,000MW of renewable capacity had been installed, accounting for 3% of total capacity. India plans to add around 12,000MW of renewable capacity by 2012, with around half coming from wind and significant contributions from biomass and small hydro. The government has set targets to add renewable capacity of 6,500MW during the 9th plan, 13,000MW during the 10th plan, and 19,500MW during the 11th plan through 2022.
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Renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and biomass offer sustainable alternatives to fossil fuels and can help address environmental problems. India has abundant renewable resources that can be used to generate power through commercially viable technologies. As of 2001, around 3,000MW of renewable capacity had been installed, accounting for 3% of total capacity. India plans to add around 12,000MW of renewable capacity by 2012, with around half coming from wind and significant contributions from biomass and small hydro. The government has set targets to add renewable capacity of 6,500MW during the 9th plan, 13,000MW during the 10th plan, and 19,500MW during the 11th plan through 2022.
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Renewable energy technologies based on the inexhaustible
resources of sunlight, wind and biomass are considered to offer sustainable energy alternatives to a world beset by various environmental problems and volatile fossil fuel politics. Increasing shares of global energy needs are expected to be met by renewable in the years ahead. India is abundantly endowed with renewable energy resources viz. solar energy, wind energy, biomass and small hydro, widely distributed across the country, and can be utilized through commercially viable technologies to generate power. Increasing the use of these sources will also be instrumental in simultaneously achieving environmental objectives like reduction of GHG (Green House Gases) emission. Details of renewable energy potential and achievement as on December 31,2001 is presented in Table -2.1(a)
Table-2.1(a) : Renewable Energy Potential & Achievement
S Source/technologies Approximate Achieveme
.No potential nt . 1 Wind Energy 45,000MW 1,267MW 2 Small Hydro(up to 15,000MW 1,341MW 25MW) 3 Biomass / Biogases Co- 19,500MW 273MW generation 4 Solar PV 20MW/KM2 47MW 5 Urban & Industrial 1,700MW 15.15MW waste 6 Biogas Plants 120 Millions 3.182MW From above table, around 3000MW (3% of total installed capacity) capacity of Renewable Energy (RE) projects has been installed in the country. India is planning to add about 12,000MW power generating capacity from renewable by the end of 11th plan(2011-2012). Almost haif of it is expected to come from wind, 3,500MW from biomass and 2,000MW from small hydro.
Table-2.1(b): Capacity additions from non-conventional energy
sources
S Source of Energy Program Capacity in MW
.No . 9th Plan 10th Plan 11th Plan 1 Wind Power 3,000 6,000 9,000 2 Small Hydro 1,000 2,000 3,000 3 Biomass Cogeneration 1,000 2,000 3,000 4 Solar Photo voltaic 300 600 900 5 Urban and Industrial 200 400 600 waste 6 Biogas plants 1,000 2,000 3,000 TOTAL 6,500 13,000 19,500