You would think that most
citizens of the world now have easy access to plentiful sources of energy, but
in India that is not the case. It’s true that most villages have power cables
and poles, but that electricity is available to only about 10pc of the village.
And even having electrical cables running through an entire village does not
necessarily mean that there is live energy running through them. Without
consistent electric lighting, many Indians work with paraffin lamps that can
damage lungs and is not much help for accomplishing school studies in the
evenings. With a lack of electricity, financial institutions cannot operate and
local businesses must close by sundown. Even though most people in India do
have a mobile phone, the task of charging them can be quite a challenge.
Throughout the country there are some 400,000 broadcast masts set up to connect
people, 60pc of which are run by generators operating on diesel fuel. With more
broadcast towers in the planning, India is looking to make a change to a
cleaner and renewable form of energy.
Replacing
the Broken Electrical Grid with Renewable Sources
It’s
plain for anyone to see that the energy grid in India is broken and that more
diesel fuel is not a viable answer. The two billion litres of fuel being
consumed now is very expensive and adds enormously to the pollution. Indian
companies are now aiming to reduce coal and diesel dependency while cutting
carbon emissions at both urban and rural towers. Their solution is creating a
hybrid power that combines grid power and renewable energy sources.
OMC
Sets Up Community Power Stations
OMC is
one company that has stepped in to develop clean energy for use by private
individuals and businesses in India. OMC has been building and managing
operations of industrial scale micropower plants that are capable of supplying
power to rural communities and for mobile networks. OMC teamed up with the
largest provider of mobile phones in India, Bharti Infratel, to create
Community Power stations, which will switch dependence on the current power
grid to a cleaner form of renewable energy.
The
involvement with OMC in providing renewable and clean energy to India works
well for India’s rural citizens as well as powering mobile phones throughout
the country.
