Renewable Energy Technologies for Decentralised Rural Power Plants
DESI Power's selection and development of technology
for EmPower Partnership Projects
DESI Power's programme ultimately envisages the use of the renewable
energy source which is most suitable for a given location. In many
cases the optimum solution usually turns out to be a hybrid system
with more than one energy source to take care of the daily or seasonal
variations in the availability of one or the other source of renewable
energy. In many cases hybridisation with fossil fuels also becomes
essential for reasons of technology, availability of the renewable
source of energy or the security of power supply. A list of mature
RETs is given below.
The following Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) are now mature
and commercially available for installation and operation in rural
areas (in alphabetical order):
1. Biomass Charcoal Production
2. Biomass Combustion
3. Biomass Gasification
4. Energy plantations and agro-forestry
5. Methanation: Biogas
6. Mini-hydro
7. Solar Photovoltaic
8. Solar Thermal
9. Wind Generators
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NB: Biomass combustion / boiler / Steam Turbine
plants have not been considered because they are viable only above
about 3 MW rating.
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