Renewable energy, an essential element in India’s energy security (electricity)

Abstract

Energy Security (both electricity and hydrocarbon) will be a major element in India’s march towards prosperity and in that process, claiming her rightful place in an emerging multi polar world. India has to adopt sound principles of sustainable development in her own interest with a judicious mix for power generation with conventional thermal power and renewable energy. India, a nation blessed with natural resources and intellectual assets should have a strategy of its own for her development through creation of wealth in the Rural India and drawing strength from her domestic market. India has to fix a target for per capita consumption of electricity taking into account her growth trajectory as well as for ensuring that all citizens in the whole cross section of Indian society will be able to have a decent life-style. I fix this per capita at 3000 units per year in 2040 based on a bench mark study taking into account India’s needs.