What is the Alternative solution?

India has three fundamental things to do - according to experts, the country urgently needs to develop a Sustainable path of energy development:

1) Improve Energy Efficiency and Conservation
2) Develop and deploy Renewable energy
3) Modernize and expand “smart” grid

Energy Efficiency –
The overall efficiency in coal energy to electrical energy put into productive / economic use is in the order of about 10%, this alone provides a huge scope to increase virtually the net power availability by as high as 40 - 50%

Renewable Energy –

Solar - The energy in sunlight striking the earth for 40 minutes is equivalent to global energy consumption for a year. India receives solar energy equivalent to over 5000 trillion kWh/year far more than the total energy consumption of the country which is about 144 million kWh/year. Even if a small percentage of this energy can be tapped - it would have made our way to solving the energy and environment problem.

We can completely switch to renewables in the next couple of decades –
- The technologies exist
- The economics are favorable and the return on investment would be much greater