M Ahmad
World Energy Conservation Day is celebrated on 14th December globally to highlight the importance of energy consumption and its use in our day-to-day life, its scarcity and its impact on the sustainability of global ecosystems. It focuses our attention on significant issues facing the future of mankind with respect to energy. This Day serves to spell a sense of urgency on the issues involved.
India is in the middle of an unprecedented power crisis. A shortage of domestic coal has caused a precarious situation at power plants, leading to power cuts and outages. The country recently saw an energy deficit of 5 percent at the national level, with some states reporting even steeper deficits. The looming power crisis has renewed attention on alternative power sources. One such technology-rooftop solar-despite being promising, has remained critically…
