Accelerating the Use of Clean Development Mechanisms in Rural Energy

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In the fast growing economy of India, the energy demand in domestic, agriculture, industry, transportation, etc., is increasing day by day. A renewable energy glance of the world shows that the world electricity generation from non-hydro renewable sources has doubled in 2002 in comparison to 1990. In 2030, there is projected world electricity generation up to 2000 tWh, out of which, roughly one third is projected from biomass, another one third from wind on-shore and the remaining from wind off-shore, solar PV, solar thermal, geo-thermal, tides and waves. The estimated potential of wind power in India is 45195 MW, biomass power 16881 MW, bagasse co-generation 5000 MW, small hydro 15000 MW, municipal solid waste 2700 MW, industrial solid waste 1000 MW and solar photovoltaic 50 MW per sq km. In rural areas, the conversion technologies and energy devices basically form a critical link between the available primary/secondary energy resources and perceived energy needs of the user. The basic consideration for selecting any energy device or any energy conversion technologies are:
Convenience and reliability with trouble free operations
Energy delivered in appropriate form in order to match the user’s needs and should be cheap
Positive social and environmental impact by using clean development mechanisms.
The cumulative achievements up to August 2008 are 39.94 lac family size and 3950 community/institutional/nights soil biogas plant, 350 lac of improved chulhas, 70474 solar street lighting systems, 402938 home lighting systems, 670059 solar lanterns, 2.22 MW, SPV power plants, 2.30 million sq.m collector area of solar water heating systems, 6.20 Lac of solar cookers, 7148 solar PV pumps, 1284 wind pumps, 675.27 kW hybrid systems and 100.11 MW biomass gasifiers for the decentralized renewable energy applications. 4198 villages/hamlets have also been electrified using renewable energy systems. .
The achievements so far made have mixed reactions in transformation of rural areas using clean development mechanisms which can further be accelerated with public-private participation.

Stream: Ecosystemic Impacts

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I have extensive experience on research, development, demonstration and popularization of renewable energy systems in India and Nigeria. I have worked as faculty member in Sokoto State College of Science and Technology and Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Nigeria and presently, I am the Coordinator of M Sc Renewable Energy Programme at the University of Lucknow. I have published about 50 research papers in renewable energy and NMR.