Promising Renewable Energy Technologies For Rural Development

摘要

A fairly good number of solar energy and biomass based renewable energy equipment / technologies have been developed during the last about 15 year under All India Coordinated Research Project on Renewable Sources of Energy for Agriculture and Agro-based Industries. Concerted efforts have been made during the last few years for commercial exploitation of many of the potential equipment / technologies in crop production, rural domestic and agro-industrial sectors through operational research demonstrations. While some of the equipment / technologies call for design refinements, many have been found technically sound during users' level trials. However, only a few of these, which were economically viable, have been adopted on commercial scale. Very high investment was found to be the most important factor for low level of their adoption. Salient features of some of the selected equipment / technologies have been summarized in this paper. Keeping in view the wider national interest, the liberal financial subsidy may be continued for promotion of the renewable energy technologies. Extensive front line demonstrations of the renewable energy equipment in rural selector, similar to other agricultural technologies, may be of great help in creating awareness and demand of the renewable energy equipment.