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Thematic Report: Renewable Energy.

by Sandhya Adhikari | 20-10-2019 22:42



Renewable energy is the boon, as innovation reduces and minimizes the cost and start to create the clean energy future. Renewable energy are often considered as the clean energy which are delivered from natural resources or process that are continuously and constantly replenished but flow limited which are virtually inexhaustible in duration but limited in the amount that is available per unit of  time. The major types of renewable energy source are biomass, hydropower, geothermal, wind, solar energy etc. Renewable energy is thought of as a new technology, harnessing nature¡¯s power has long been used for heating, transporting, lighting and more. Now we had made possible and increasingly innovate and less expensive ways to capture all those non costly solar energy, wind energy. This means that the use of renewable energy are increasingly displacing dirty fossil fuel in the power sector, offering the benefit of lower emission of carbon and other major pollution. But every those marked renewable sources are not beneficial to environment. Biomass and large hydroelectric dams create difficult tradeoff when considering the impact on wildlife, climate change and other issue.  In the contest of Nepal, our country Nepal¡¯s recently adopted policies of subsidizing renewable energy is the recent of many attempts to electrify long deprived areas.

Correspondingly, we all are well known of the fact that agriculture is the sole contributor of human food and major percentage are engaged in agriculture. Due to the enhancement of the technology and mechanization in the agricultural sector many farm machine are used which are driven by fossil fuel, due to burning of these fossil fuel it contribute green house gas emission that accelerate the climate change, global warming and increases the carbon foot print, so a major portion of these energy can be altered by renewable energy for the sustainability. As energy is an indispensible in the modern society and considered as one of the important component of socio economic development. Nepal as considered as the least developed countries where the majority resides on the rural areas, and the energy sector are dominated by the traditional energy sources such as fuel woods, crop residues and animal biomass for domestic usages contributing to about 86% of national energy consumption. Currently 40% of the population has excess to electricity and the rural electrification accounts for only 29%. Inspite of having huge potential in harnessing various renewable energy like solar power, wind, hydropower these resources have not been sustainably utilized due to geographical, political, and economical reasons.

 

To sum up in addition  to the sole contribution to SDGs which emphasize on the access to the affordable, reliable, modern and sustainable energy for all and SDGs 13, an urgency to combat the alarming climate change, the renewable energy sector also contribute to the other 15 SDGs goals including poverty alleviation, food security, education, increase access to the health care.