A set of four commemorative postage stamps on Renewable Energy were issued depicting the four common applications of renewable energy i.e. Solar Energy, Wind Energy, Small Hydropower and Biomass Energy.
Energy is a basic requirement for economic development.
Every sector of economy – agriculture, industry, transport, commercial and
domestic – needs inputs of energy. The economic development plans implemented
since independence in India have necessarily required increasing amounts of
energy. As a result, consumption of energy in all forms has been steadily rising
all over the country.
This growing consumption of energy has also resulted in
the country becoming increasingly dependent on fossil fuels such as coal, oil
and gas. Rising prices of oil and gas and potential shortages in future lead to
concerns about the security of energy supply needed to sustain our economic
growth. Increased use of fossil fuel also causes environmental problems both
locally and globally.
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