Renewable energy in India: Current status and future potentials

Kumar, Ashwani; Kumar, Kapil; Kaushik, N.; Sharma, Satyawati; Mishra, Shailendra Kumar

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2010.04.003

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“…The total annual solar radiation falling on the earth is more than 7500 times the world's total annual energy consumption of 450 EJ. The annual solar radiation reaching the earth surface as presented by Kumar et al [14] is approximately 3,400,000 EJ and this is an order of magnitude greater than all the estimated non-renewable resources, including fossil fuels and nuclear.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Energy Adaptive Glass Matter

Alston¹

2014

J Archit Eng Tech

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The critical aims of glass envelope design and development must be to enable measures upon glass buildings to prevent uncontrolled heating of the building surfaces, increase emissivity and the impacts of this heat conduction into the building interior spaces. Current glass envelopes depend upon hybrid facades, double skin glass facades; solar shading; passive solar energy systems (transparent insulation materials, solar glazing balconies) to reduce solar temperature gains upon this surface. The envelope performance is based upon measures in the reduction of heat conduction via the material that form its surface, to resolve the conflicts between services and fabric provisions (such as heating systems fighting cooling systems). New materials have been developed of increased performance to resolve this issue by product and component development. For example the integration of solar active elements within the glass panels. However glass building envelopes constructed in hot locations (where temperature are over 40 degrees) have the poorest lighting levels, as the needs to control thermal conduction and high energy consumption needs, to cool the building. These buildings are dependent upon artificial lighting and the reliance of HVAC systems.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 92%

Energy Adaptive Glass Matter

Alston¹

2014

J Archit Eng Tech

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“…Therefore, biomass power generation is becoming an emerging industry in India over the last decade. It attracts an annual investment of over USD 130 million and produces about 5000 million units of electricity with 10 million man-days jobs in rural areas [25,26]. To realize the potential, the government has undertaken a number of programs for biomass power generation through two major schemes-grid interactive and off-grid, and distributed renewable power.…”

Section: Biomass For Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it has been acknowledged by the government as an important factor for developing the biomass energy sector as well as the renewable energy sector [26]. Here, the achievements on HR and knowledge development are measured in terms of the provision of capacity building programs and its related activities.…”

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Biomass energy policies and strategies: Harvesting potential in India and Indonesia

Singh

Setiawan

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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a b s t r a c tIndia and Indonesia are privileged with abundant biomass resource potentials, 23 Giga-watt (GW) and 50 GW equivalents respectively, yet both countries harvest small proportions, with fundamentally different deployed policies and articulated strategies. In this regard, this paper focuses on analyzing evolution and deployment of different policies and execution of strategies by two countries. It analyzes the effects of the biomass energy policies and executed strategies in India and Indonesia with a holistic approach. Such an approach takes the policy and strategy of the whole biomass energy sector rather than a segmented and separated sector as biofuel, biogas, biodiesel, etc. Furthermore, how they have resulted in different outcomes is also addressed. Our analysis shows that India's biomass energy policy has evolved from incremental to more radical changes, while Indonesia's policy remains incremental. India has also a relatively more unified biomass energy strategy than Indonesia. India has been more focused on technology development and deployment along with strong institutional creation, whereas Indonesia has not been able to create any biomass sector supporting strong institutions. Therefore, in terms of biomass energy utilizations, India has demonstrated better performance than Indonesia.

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“…Renewable energy is the energy derived from the available sources can be tapped from sun, wind, ocean, hydropower, biomass, geothermal resources, biofuels and hydrogen derived from renewable resources. 3,4 Renewable energy resources are available in wide geographical areas, in contrast to other energy sources, which are concentrated in a limited number of countries. Rapid deployment of renewable energy and technological diversification of energy sources would indeed result in significant energy security and economic benefits.…”

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confidence: 99%

A review on applications of Cu2ZnSnS4 as alternative counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

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A contribution of counter electrode (CE) emphasis a great impact towards enhancement of a dye-sensitized solar cell's (DSSC) performance and Pt based CE sets a significant benchmark in this field. Owing to cost effective noble metal, less abundance and industrial large scale application purpose, an effective replacement for Pt is highly demanded. There are several approaches to improve the performance of a CE for enhancing the power conversion efficiency with a less costly and facile device. To address this issue, reasonable efforts execute to find out suitable replacement of Pt is becoming a challenge by keeping the same electrochemical properties of Pt in a cheaper and eco-friendlier manner. With this, cheaper element based quaternary chalcogenide, Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) becomes a prominent alternative to Pt and used as a successful CE in DSSC also. This review presents brief discussion about the basic properties of CZTS including its synthesis strategy, physicochemical properties and morphology execution and ultimate application as an alternative Pt free CE for a low cost based enhanced DSSC device. It is therefore, imperative for engineering of CZTS material and optimization of the fabrication method for the improvement of DSSC performance.

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Renewable energy in India: Current status and future potentials

Cited by 433 publications

References 6 publications

Energy Adaptive Glass Matter

Energy Adaptive Glass Matter

Biomass energy policies and strategies: Harvesting potential in India and Indonesia

A review on applications of Cu2ZnSnS4 as alternative counter electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

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