OBJECT OF THE THEME
Power is one of the most critical infrastructure for economic growth of the country. It has become an essential part of the day to day life of the people. The per capita power consumption is considered as a scale for measurement of development. The economic acceleration would greatly depend upon a commercially viable and a technically vibrant power sector that is able to attract fresh investment.
At present almost all the states of country are suffering from power cut on account of wide gap between the demand and supply, thereby adversely affecting the economic growth of the country. The Govt. of India has also decided to electrify all the villages of the country by the year 2007 and to make available electricity up to every house of the country by the year 2012. This indicates immense need of additional power requirement within next coming 5 to 6 years, and therefore the installation of number of power plants, to meet out the growing power requirement of the country is at most necessary at present.
Thus it is demand of time to generate electricity in large quantity for, prosperity and development of the nation.
The installation of major power plants related to conventional source of energy i.e. Thermal and Hydel results in negative impact by way of pollution & deforestation and thus seriously affect the ecological system. Power generation through Thermal Power Plant not only comes with environmental concerns in terms of deforestation so also with, flue gas emission & ash disposal etc. Since development of the country also cannot be held up in the name of ecological effect, hence a Social, Technical and Economical balance between the two is required to be maintained.
Use of non-conventional sources of energy can be one of the way to generate electricity with minimum pollution and deforestation, so also to utilize the other untapped sources of energy for diversification.
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