What is Rural Energy Technology?

With a scientific planning and adopting appropriate strategy, the sources of non-conventional energy can be exploited to substitute the energy needs of the poor. The direct and disguised forms of solar energy like wind, forestry biomass and biogas offer innumerable benefits like low-cost, reduction of waste, environmental stability, high employment potential and fulfillment of the vital component of development process, namely self-reliance and energy self-sufficiency. The concept of Rural Energy Centers emphasize the role of renewable sources of energy in providing decentralized energy sources tot eh village, making it independent of the commercial sources as far as possible.

How to do this Technology?

The technology includes equipment and systems based upon solar, wind, biomass and muscle power;
  • Solar cookers of family and community types and parabolic types for frying
  • Solar stills, solar water heaters
  • Solar photovoltaic systems for pumping water, for street lights and for running televisions and radio sets.
  • Wind energy conversion systems like wind-mills and aero-generators
  • Domestic and Community types of bio-gas plants based on human wastes, agricultural and animal wastes for generating energy for cooking, lighting and to energies chaff-cutter and flour mill
  • Energy Plantation to produce fast-growing fuel sufficient species suitable for the agro-climatic conditions of a soil full of gravel, dry and less fertile
The basic control is kept at village level and depending only on the locally available, renewable, non-polluting and perennial sources of energy. This will free the rural area from the clutches of the highly centralized, undependable and costly sources of energy.

Benefits
  • A small investment of a few thousand rupees can be used for making a community bio-gas plant that can directly more than its investment along with indirect benefits like no fly-breeding, no mosquito-breeding, production of odourless gas and thus environmental protection.
  • The species produced through Energy Plantation have high calorific value, high adaptability to poor and laterite soil, drought resistance, fast growth, high photosynthetic potential and coppicing ability, low cost establishment, and multiple usages. High-density plantation proved economically viable.
REMARKABLE INNOVATION BY JAMNALAL BAJAJ AWARDEE :

SHRI T.G.K MENON
KASTURBAGRAM,
INDORE, 452020
MADHYA PRADESH
INDIA