India ideal for solar power development

Solar Electricity in Asia - Photovoltaic Panels - Aleternative Energy

Solar Energy India

from clean-energy-ideas.com

The geographical location of India allows for long days of sunny weather for the majority of the year. This advantage allows solar energy in India to be a viable option for a means of generating electricity for a large proportion of the population.

Indias high population which is around 4x that of the United States' population means generating enough power can be quite a task.

The energy consumption in India is currently allot less than that of the United States, and this shows how a large proportion of Indias population does not have access to electricity. The use of solar energy in India could change this problem, and provide a clean, cheap source of electricity for many areas of India.

It is said that the geographical location of India means the country receives well over 4500 trillion kWh of pure solar energy each year, which is far beyond the annual power consumption for India, and even that of the United States who in 2004 used less than 4 trillion kWh of energy.

Solar energy has a huge potential for the population of India, yet the installation of solar energy systems still remains a high cost solution for many countries where fossil fuel energy provides most of the electricity needed.

As solar energy technologies become cheaper, we should start to see a huge shift towards the use of solar energy sources in many countries like India, and we are already seeing small scale installations of this nature.

The main con of solar energy which lies at the heart of the debate of proposed solar installations for many countries such as India is the cost, but as time goes by, manufacturing methods can become simpler therefore making the end product cheaper.'

India will take a huge advantage of the available solar energy supplied to the country in the future, and we can hope this will lead to an improved standard of living for much of the population.