Renewable Energy an Important Source - Opinion

Electricity is one of the prime requirements for any country to develop. Without it, infrastructural bottlenecks accentuate, causing hurdles in growth across the board. Industries, Agriculture, services and in fact every walk of life need electricity to move forward. With this in view, India has been making all efforts to generate as much electricity as possible from different sources. These include Hydro, thermal, nuclear and even non- conventional sources like solar and wind energy.

India is committed to increasing share of renewable enrgy, says Dr. Farooq Abdullah at IIEA, Dublin

Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah has said that India is committed to increasing the share of renewable power in the electricity mix to 15 per cent by the year 2020. He said an action plan has already been developed that aims at accelerating the deployment of renewable energy with a target of around 30 GW of renewable power by 2017. Dr. Abdullah was addressing a distinguished gathering at the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) in Dublin in Ireland yesterday.

Solar power needed to fuel Asia’s economic growth: Asian Development Bank

Harnessing solar power is now an economic imperative for Asia and no longer just an environmental issue, the vice president of the Asian Development Bank said Monday.

Speaking at the Asia Solar Energy Forum in Bangkok, Xiaoyu Zhao said the region must manage its energy,security and develop sustainable, low-carbon economic growth and wean itself off total dependence on high resource, high carbon development. “Harnessing the power of the sun to fuel Asia’s growth is no longer simply an option, it is a necessity,” he said.

Climate renewables can power the world - IPCC study

Renewable energy could account for almost 80% of the world’s energy supply within four decades — but only if governments pursue the policies needed to promote green power, according to a landmark report published on Monday.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world’s leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations, said that if the full range of renewable technologies were deployed, the world could keep greenhouse gas concentrations to less than 450 parts per million, the level scientists have predicted will be the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes catastrophic and irreversible.