Think of Rural Energy Resources and Biorefineries

Abstrakt

With the growing population, global energy demand has also increased drastically. Energy demand of the emerging economies had almost 100% growth during last decade. However, energy consumption growth has been below average throughout the globe except North America (BPSR, 2014). Interestingly, the energy consumption of EU has reducing trend and last year it has been the  lowest since 1995. The growing energy demand is linked environmental degradation contributing greenhouse gases (GHG) and other pollutants having health and climate change implications. Hence, there is need to look into potential emission reductions options of GHGs and to analyze the total investment in different regions in order to implement reduction strategies (Gouldson et al., 2014). We should not forget that out of 7.1 billion people, more than 50% live in rural areas. However, by the year 2050 more than more and more people will be living in the cities (UN DESA 2014) and the majority of this population will be living in developing countries (WHO, 2014). Nevertheless, rural population in India will remain significantly high. As a matter of fact, without any exception, India will also face energy crisis and crunch in its supply through the available non-renewable and renewable resources. At present, India banks on import of energy. But it has tremendous potential to develop cost effective energy technologies to become self sufficient especially the solar, wind and bioenergy which are the future energy options for independent India.