Most of the Indian states suffer from the shortage of power supply through out the year and this not only brings a huge pressures on power production & distribution system but also disturbs the financial & economic activities in the country.All most every state rely on the thermal power production which is not only costly but also very polluting as well.In a major change the Govt.of Rajasthan has cleared its solar energy policy. Rajasthan has huge potential in the solar energy field which is worth to capitalized, specially in its western part.Solar energy potential of the sate could easily make the state a "Self dependent" in power sector at very low cost in comparison to thermal power.Most of the Indian states has to invest a great amount of their budget in the power generation, which is basically coal based and one of the most polluting element
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Solar energy production is even more favourable in cost wise apart from its Eco-friendly nature. If we compare the cost of a 500MW energy production by thermal plants, usually takes 30 crore whereas the cost of producing the same units of energy by solar system costs 16 crore.This is a significant advantage of solar system over the polluting and dirty way of energy production.
Rajasthan cabinet okays solar energy policy for promoting solar energy production.The Division of Solar Energy and Wind Power Utilization in the Central Arid Zone Research Institute at Jodhpur has amply demonstrated the potential for exploitation of solar energy in western Rajasthan from 1975 onwards and it took a most three decades for the Government of Rajasthan to evolve a policy on Solar Energy utilization.Of course not too late!
So question is if the solar system is so much Eco-friendly and most importantly so cost effective then why too late?, why The Govt. is relying & looking for various other dirty and even more dangerous power generation technologies i.e atomic plants,huge thermal plants etc ?. It is time to implement it not even of thinking about it.
Happy Sun light to the people in the desert, even in night..!! & hope rest of citizens will also enjoy the same very soon.
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