Current and future solar potential of India: A review

Abstract

India is a highly populated country having about 1250 million people. It has a huge demand of power which is very tough to be fulfilled by the existed energy sources. The main sources of energy are coal, petrol, fossil fuels. But the production of power from these sources generate a huge amount of pollution in our atmosphere. Due to the environment pollution, most of the people suffer breathing problem and other various kinds of health problems. Therefore, we need to move towards natural sources of renewable energy e.g. solar energy, wind energy and hydro power to cater the needs of our society. Many of the countries are moving to these natural resources of energy. The solar power is a very clean and natural resource of energy. It is non-contaminated and vast source of power. The solar energy does not produce Co2 and other emissions. Therefore, solar energy is extremely safe and in abundance. India is situated at such a nice geographical location that it gets tremendous quantity of Sun light for the whole year. In this state of affairs, the Government of India has taken a note to concentrate on methods to utilise solar energy to generate power and develop many solar cities and solar parks.