Sandeep BadadAIR 82 · CSE 2025 · 162 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a definition
Non-conventional energy refers to wind enegy, solar enegy, hydrothermal, geothermal, tidal and other such non-traditional and mostly renewable forms of enegy.
Potential of Peninsular India
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Solar: 365 days of solar insolation with 11 kwh per m^2 → Vast flat land and arid fallow land easy to convert into solar farms.
Wind enegy: → onshore potential in hilly section like ratnagiri, tirunfali, vindhyas Offshore → on Gujarat coast, Tamilnady and Andhra have huge potential due to year long winds.
③ Tidal enegy: Eg. Gulf of Kutch, Gulf of Khambhat, Gulf of Mannar region.
④ Oceanthermal enegy potential due to contrasting temperature diversity.
⑤ Hydropower potential → in river stretches of Kaveri, Narmada, Godavari, Krishna Eg. Tungabhadra hydropower station.
However challenges remain: ① Inadequate infrastructure & technological capacity. ② Food-energy norms disharmony ③ Policy ambiguities like wind hybrid policy
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To realise the SDG 7 of clean enegy and prepare to climate change then it becomes imperative to transform this potential into reality.
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