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India Solar Energy Campaign
India
geographical location provides long days of sunny weather for the majority
of the year. This situation allows solar energy in India to
be a viable option to generating electricity for a large proportion of the
population.
India's high population which is around 4x that of the United States, means
generating enough power can be a demanding task. The energy consumption in
India is currently allot less than that of the United States, and this shows
how a large majority of the population of India does not have access to
electricity.
The use of
solar energy
in India could help to change this problem, in providing a clean, cheap
source of electricity for many areas communities. It is believed that the
geographical location of India allows the country to receive well over 4500
trillion kWh of pure solar energy each year, which is far beyond the annual
power consumption of 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 helping to support the future
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
more cost effective, therefore making the end product cheaper for consumers.
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.
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