LOW-CARBON FUTURE: SWITCHING FROM CONVENTIONAL TO CLEAN ENERGY HARVESTING IN INDIA

Abstract

For thousands of years, the persistent use of conventional energies that has been driving economic progress, is now-a-day a being considered not only unsustainable but also environmentally destructive. India's abundant renewable energy sources is capable of generating clean energy and providing an attainable replacement of the polluting and expeditiously depleting conventional energy sources. Initially, this study embellished a scenario of fossil fuel dependency coupled with a looming conventional energy crisis in the foreseeable future followed by the non-renewable energy consumption and carbon footprint nexus. This paper briey explores the background, signicant achievement, potentiality of India's major renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, biomass, small hydropower and liberal environment designed by the Government. India has been able to make remarkable progress in shrinking its share of power generation from fossil fuels. Additionally, some hindrances regarding the massive harvesting in clean electricity and the smooth way forward are addressed here. Unwaving endeavour is going on in innovation and promotion of energy-efcient green technologies domestically and the current promotion policies, perspectives, and strategies of Indian government are supposed to transpire to be a success story.