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indi India has tremendous potential in non conventional sources of energy elucidate the statement with suitable examples and arguments


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Soniya Suraj naik 26th Aug, 2020
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Saunkita Mallick 5th Oct, 2020

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Non conventional sources of energy or Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat.

India is blessed with an abundance of sunlight, water, wind and biomass. It has the largest programme for the development of these renewable energy resources. There is a capacity of about 1, 95,000 MW non-conventional energy in India. 31 % of it is the form of solar energy, 30%  in ocean and geo-thermal, 26 %  in biomass and 10 % in wind energy. India is a tropical country. It has enormous possibilities of tapping solar energy. The largest solar plant of India is located at Madhapur, near Bhuj, where solar energy is used to sterilise milk cans. India now ranks as a “wind super power” in the world. The largest wind farm cluster is located in Tamil Nadu from Nagarcoil to Madurai. Apart from these, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Kerala, Maharashtra and Lakshadweep have important wind farms. A 900 mw tidal energy power plant is set up in india by the National Hydropower Corporation. There are several hundred hot springs in India, which could be used to generate electricity. Two experimental projects have been set up in India to harness geothermal energy. One is located in the Parvati valley near Manikarn in Himachal Pradesh and the other is located in the Puga Valley, Ladakh.

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