Reliability based socio economic optimal renewable energy model for India

Renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass have to play a vital role in the developing countries like India in order to meet the growing energy demand. In the last five years, some renewable energy sources had emerged as technically and economically viable alternatives in the energy sector, as a result, more ambitious plans for their dissemination were being launched. In this situation, development of an energy model exclusively for renewables will help in the allocation of appropriate renewable energy systems for different end-uses in the future. An attempt has been made to develop a reliability based socio economic optimal renewable energy model for India in the year 2020-2021. The effect of social acceptance variation in OREM model was analysed. The lighting end-use would be met by solar PV and biogas system to an extent of 0.5198 x 10(15) kJ and 0.75 x 10(15) kJ, respectively. Similarly, the renewable energy utilisation is found for other end-uses. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.