Posts

Showing posts from May, 2020

Electricity of future

Image
Every piece of world evolves over time. And electricity and its generation is of no exception. We have been seeing a growth of Renewables in the last two decades. In the first five decades of the twentieth century, renewables were called hydro power. Though the concept of renewables, tapping wind energy, solar and even wave or tide was very much on the cards, few people gave it much thought. They were all on the researchers tables! Today, the world is seeing the growth of renewables. The last two decades have seen the rise of solar power. Wind power continues to grow for the last three decades. Today, this world has over 650 GW of wind power installed. Solar is not too far behind. As of today, we have nearly 600 GW of solar power plants under PV technology installed across the world! That is quite some capacity in just about 20 to 30 years! Where do we go from here? One of the major areas of development is expected to be transmission and distribution in days to come. We lo