SUFFiciENcy EcONOMy ANd GRASSROOtS DEvElOPMENt
SUFFiciENcy EcONOMy ANd GRASSROOtS DEvElOPMENt
SUFFiciENcy EcONOMy ANd GRASSROOtS DEvElOPMENt
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The Meaning of Sufficiency Economy <br />
International Conference<br />
273<br />
Developments on cheap solar technology are considered as a potential<br />
alternative that allows an electricity infrastructure comprising of a network of localgrid<br />
clusters with distributed electricity generation. That could allow bypassing, or at<br />
least relieving the need of installing expensive, and energy losses in transmission,<br />
long-distance centralized power delivery systems and yet, bring cheap electricity to<br />
the masses. <br />
India should adopt a policy of developing solar power as a dominant<br />
component of the renewable energy mix; the subcontinent has the ideal combination<br />
of both high solar insulation and a big potential rural consumer base density.<br />
Without compromising its economic growth potential, India can make renewable<br />
resources like solar the backbone of its economy. <br />
It has been estimated that there is a potential to install 19500 MW capacities<br />
through biomass conservation technologies like combustion, gasification,<br />
incineration and also bagasse based co- generation in sugar mills. So far only around<br />
380 MW of this potential has been tapped and there is wide scope for expanding the<br />
size of their use for the benefit of the majority of the rural population to meet their<br />
energy needs. <br />
Villagers should be educated not to cut trees or burn kerosene for meeting their<br />
fuel needs rather, biogas plants should be set up on large scale. <br />
Solar and bio-energy equipments (Singh 2011) should be advertised in all print<br />
and visual media along with their cost benefit analysis. These can be offered on<br />
installments as other consumer products. Private players should be involved into<br />
making and installing these equipments. <br />
The distributed energy farm can be located in remote rural regions, the local<br />
technologies will send power through new transmission lines, and variations in<br />
output will be communicated immediately to the utilities. These local technologies<br />
of producing green electricity will depend on the availability of local alternative to<br />
conventional energy sources, renewable energy resource. This will also ensure<br />
sustainable development and sufficiency economy on a community grassroots level.