| Abstract |
India has been a power deficient country with an increasing demand – supply
gap in energy. Renewable energy sources and technologies have the potential
to provide solutions to the longstanding energy shortage problems of our
country. Solar energy is the largest exploitable renewal energy resource as
more energy can be generated from sunlight that strikes the Earth in one hour
than all of the energy consumed by humans in an entire year. Besides being
abundant, solar energy offers a solution to fossil fuel emissions and global
climate change. Solar thermal electricity (STE) also known as concentrating
solar power (CSP) and Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) are emerging renewable
energy technologies that can be developed as future potential option for
electricity generation in India. In this paper, efforts have been made to
summarize the availability of power, current status of power sector and future
potential of solar energy and the strategies needed to transform the country to
a solar powered economy. |
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