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THEME PAPER
ENERGY and efficient energy generation methods.
grid [Carter Charles]. New methods like
g. Decentralised Local production and concentrated solar
Renewable Energy consumption will also power (CSP) uses the
Energy production in help in reducing the sun’s energy to convert
India has largely been cost of transportation water to steam to drive
centralised due to the of electricity and a traditional turbine.
nature of power plants maintenance of CSP uses curved mirrors
which require significant the energy grid. to concentrate the solar
investments in terms of Deploying a local power energy to superheat a
cost, human resources generation unit would high-temperature heat
and infrastructure. require a moderate initial transfer fluid that passes
Renewable energy like investment which would through a heat exchanger
solar, wind, tidal on the be around Rs 65,000 per to heat the water and
other hand is distributed kW [Ranjan Rakesh] produce steam. The steam
by nature and spread but the variable cost drives the conventional
over a large area that can is way less especially steam turbine to generate
be harnessed at any scale. for solar power due to electricity [SEIA, 2021].
Energy decentralisation the low maintenance One of the major
involves individuals, requirements of the challenges with solar
small business owners or photovoltaic cells. energy is its availability at
communities producing One of the challenges night time. Heat transfer
renewable energy by in decentralised energy material like synthetic
deploying a small power production is storage oil [SEIA,2021], quartzite
generation unit within for nighttime usage and rock and silica sand
their own premise. This low demand. The most
energy can be utilised for widely used method is as a high-temperature
their own use and surplus storage with batteries particle receiver [Ho,
can be sold to either which are expensive. Clifford K, 2019] can
a power distribution Alternatives to batteries be heated and stored
company or to a local are also explored which to generate electricity
energy consumer. include compressed at night time. [Office of
This trend in local and hydro pumped Energy Efficiency and
power production and storage[UNESCAP]. Renewable Energy]
consumption will have a Compressed air and
huge impact on the power h. Concentrated pumped hydro are some
industry especially in Solar Power other ways to store solar
India where DISCOMS Photovoltaic cells (PVC) energy for the long term.
has no competitors in have been primarily used Energy storage is almost
an area. Technological to convert solar energy to 50 times less than
innovation and new electrical energy. PVCs batteries [Ho, Clifford K,
trends in this sector have low efficiency and 2019] but CSP setup will
could produce a much high cost as compared require significant cost
more flexible, resilient to non-renewable energy and land area.
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