ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF ENERGY IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: A STUDY ON SOLAR ENERGY

Abstract

The environment is an important part of our day-to-day life and it fulfils our basic needs such  as food, shelter, and clothing. In our environment, we can find natural resources, biotic and  abiotic things. For parochial interest, human beings are gradually destroying the environment  and fulfilling present needs, but more and more natural resources are exhausted, which are not  abundantly found in the world. Day by day, due to the population explosion, there is a danger  to the environment. Basically, there are two types of energy resources, renewable and non

renewable sources of energy. Renewable sources can be recycled and abundantly found, such  as solar energy, wind energy, hydropower energy, and non-renewable sources of energy are  fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, etc. Non-renewable sources of energy are  found in a limited way. Through coal, thermal energy is produced, but it is harmful to the  environment and exhaustible. Therefore, the government of India has initiated the International  Solar Alliance with 121 countries to produce green energy through solar panels. The present  research may show, how solar energy will be an alternative source of energy for environmental  preservation. Through NITI Aayog, the government is focusing on renewable sources of energy  for solving environmental problems. It has also kept a target that by 2050, to make India a zero carbon emission country.