Don’t you think so? Looking at the urbanization and energy utilization in our present standard of living gives a direct consequence to the maximum utilization of renewable and vast sources of energy!

Long back in the year 2003 on December 25, ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in an address to people through leading newspapers – “Just as the last two centuries were driven by coal and oil, it is my belief that the next century will belong to renewables.” He also said, “Our expanding economy, and the strong growth expected in the next few decades, will require substantial addition to our energy generating capacity.”

Natural resources are those which are taken by us from the nature like solar energy, wind energy, energy from water i.e., hydro energy etc. Renewable source of energy is the one which can be used over and over again.

Rising prices of oil and gas and their potential shortages have serious repercussions on the growth of the national economy. Moreover increasing use of fossil fuels also causes serious environmental problems. Hence there is a pressing need to use renewable energy sources like solar which is also called a non-conventional sources of energy. One of the major reasons why humans need to dwell towards solar power is that it doesn’t destroy natural habitat. Countless forests have been annihilated for mining raw materials like fossils and nuclear fuels. Cutting of forests disappears the carbon sink which is an essential part for conducting nature cycle and it adversely effects the climate issues such as global warming.

Even the cost factor isn’t an issue now! Technological development and government subsidies have reduced the cost of high priced solar systems. The price of solar PV panels have decreased by 60% and that of solar electricity system by 50% according to the latest reports. Hence, solar energy is now competitive with conventional energy sources in terms of price and way better than them in terms of energy production and resource conservation.

The use of solar energy has been started at various places in India such as Sundarbans, Ladakh, Bastar, North Eastern states, Bangalore, Tirupati etc. as solar home lighting, solar street lighting, solar lanterns, solar water heaters etc. which enables people to pay lower electricity bills on a small scale and the availability of non-renewable resources for future generation as the large scale measure.

Photovoltaic technology converts sunlight directly into electricity. Solar energy is fast becoming popular in rural and remote areas. It is expected that use of solar energy will be able to minimize the dependence of rural households on fire wood and dung cakes which will have a direct impact to restraint the pollution level as well.

If firm steps won’t not be taken in the forthcoming days, the day is not far when our future generation would be crying even for the basic necessities and nature would be giggling on human mentality and their chain of actions to save the environment.