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Fighting Energy Crisis With Renewable Energy
By Mr Ethanol | October 24, 2008
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Today we are facing acute energy shortages, resulting in power shading from 4 to 10 hours every day at different locations in India. Building new power generating plants is part of a long term planning depending on fossil fuel availability. This is high time, we must work out solutions over energy crisis with additional advantages if possible.
The average per capita consumption of energy in India is around 500 units per annum. In spite of high rate of development these figures are very low, compared to developed countries. 
(Middle East 10,000+, USA 8000+, Europe, Australia, Japan etc 4000+) .In our country major contribution to electrical energy generation is by coal and oil based power generation plants, followed by hydro and nuclear power generating stations. All these power generating plants (except hydro and nuclear) have contribution to CO2 emissions and global warming effects.
Many experts believe that by 2015 the supply of oil & natural gas will be unable to keep up with demand, or oil and natural gas production would be at peak by 2015. By that time the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) will need large quantities of oil, especially because of fast growth of the Indian and Chinese economies. Crude oil Price might shoot to the $150 per barrel level and higher. The impact on our import bill and balance of payment will be very serious.
Coal: Coal has a similar story, but may last for a longer period of time. India has extractable reserves of 52 billion tones. Annual production now is 407 million tones and the rate of growth of production is going to be very high. The Government of India predicts complete depletion of coal in 40 years. The key factor is not depletion but peaking of production which is expected by 2015 in India. A recent study predicts global peaking of production of coal by 2025. The use of coal in power industry contributes sizable amount of CO2 emissions and fly ash pollution within few kilometers around the power plant. Read more.
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