The Calculation of Renewable Energy

The Experiment
In this experiment, the efficiency of various sources of renewable energy is
calculated. The sources considered in this experiment include solar, wind, and
hydroelectric sources or renewable energy are considered. Their relative potential as
sources of energy is evaluated.
Rationale
Energy has become a necessity in our everyday life in order to improve human
development which lead to economic growth and productivity. The use of renewable
sources of energy can help mitigate climate change is an excellent way but needs to
be sustainable in order to ensure a sustainable future and bequeath future generations
to meet their energy needs. Knowledge regarding the interrelations between
sustainable development and renewable energy in particular is still limited. This
experiment aims to evaluate various sources of renewable energy and their relative
potential as sources of energy. In this experiment, performance of solar, wind, and
hydroelectric power are evaluated. Their performance and the factors which might
influence the choice of one source over the others are highlighted.
Introduction
The daily prerequisite of energy continue expanding while the earth in its structure
can't change. The requirement for energy and its related services is on ascend to meet
the essential human needs, for example, space solace, versatility and correspondence,
health, cooking, lighting, and fill in as generative procedure (Akdi et al., 2020). There
are however two superseding difficulties in energy division: making sure about
energy supply and controlling energy commitment to environmental change. These
two clashing needs represent a risk to the road towards a sustainable future (Liang,
2017). About 1.4 billion individuals have no access to power, and 85% of the total
populace live in rustic zones. Subsequently, the number of individuals depending on
conventional sources of energy , for example, biomass is anticipated to ascend by 0.1

billion, from 2.7 billion to 2.8 billion by the year 2030(Kaygusuz, 2012) . After the
principal record of business mining of coal in 1750 in Virginia, USA, coal turned into
the most favored fuel for steam motors since is had more energy conveying limit than
the biomass-based powers (charcoal and kindling). As late as in the last century, coal
was nearly less expensive and cleaner fuel(Akhter Hossain, 2015) . An exponential
increment in populace combined with predominance non-renewable energy source
based power generation (coal, oil and gas) for the past decades have prompted a
developing interest for energy . The end results is worldwide difficulties related with a
fast development in carbon dioxide (CO2) outflows (Akhter Hossain, 2015). A
noteworthy environmental change has gotten probably the best test of the twenty-first
century. Its grave effects may at present be kept away from if endeavors are made to
change current energy frameworks. Sustainable power sources hold the key potential
to displace ozone harming substance emanations from non-renewable energy source
based power generation and thereby moderating environmental change (Owusu &
Asumadu-Sarkodie, 2016).
Sustainable development is as of now the focal point of recent national arrangements,
systems and improvement plans of numerous nations. The United Nations General
Assembly proposed a set of global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which
included 17 objectives and 169 focuses at the UN in New York by the Open Working
Group. Additionally, a primer arrangement of 330 pointers was presented in March
2015 (Lu et al., 2015). The SDGs place more noteworthy value and demands on
established researchers than did the Millennium Development Goals. In tending to
environmental change, sustainable power source, food, health and water arrangement,
organized worldwide observing and demonstrating of numerous variables which are
socially, monetarily and earth situated are required (Wysokińska, 2017).
Research into exchange wellsprings of energy dated back in the late 90s when the
world began accepting stun from oil delivers regarding value hiking (Agaton, 2018).
It is providential in writing that supplanting non-renewable energy source based
energy sources with sustainable power sources, which incorporates: Bio-energy,
direct sun based energy , geothermal energy , hydro-power, wind and sea energy (tide
and wave), would step by step help the world accomplish the possibility of
supportability. Governments, intergovernmental offices, invested individuals and

people on the planet today anticipate accomplishing a practical future because of the
open doors made in ongoing decades to supplant oil got materials from petroleum
derivative based energy sources with options in sustainable power sources. The
ongoing dispatch of a lot of worldwide SDGs is assisting with ensuring that
environmental change for twenty-first century and its effects are fought, and a
manageable future is guaranteed and made as an inheritance for people in the future
(Wysokińska, 2017).
Against this setting, the study looks to analyze the possibilities and patterns of
supportable advancement with sustainable power sources and environmental change
moderation, the degree to which it can help and the potential difficulties it stances and
how a move from fossil to sustainable power sources is a certain method for relieving
environmental change. To accomplish this goal, ideas, methods and companion
assessed diaries are examined and explored wisely.
Renewable Energy
Renewable power sources renew themselves normally without being exhausted in the
earth; they incorporate bio-energy , hydro-power, geothermal energy , sun based
energy , wind energy and sea (tide and wave) energy . Poullikkas (2015) characterizes
manageable energy as, "a unique concordance between the fair accessibility of
energy-intensive goods and services to all individuals and conservation of the earth
for generations in the future".
The world's developing energy need, alongside expanding population prompted the
constant utilization of petroleum derivative based energy sources (Coal, Oil and Gas)
which got hazardous by making a few challenges, for example, consumption of non-
renewable energy source saves, ozone depleting substance discharges and other
natural concerns, geopolitical and military clashes, and the nonstop fuel value
vacillations. These issues will make unfeasible circumstances which will in the end
bring about possibly irreversible danger to human social orders (Liang, 2017). In any
case, sustainable power sources are the most remarkable other option and the main
answer for the developing challenges (Paska & Surma, 2014).

Reliable energy supply is necessary in all economies for warming, lighting,
mechanical hardware, transport, and so on (Ghosh et al., 2018). Sustainable power
source supplies decrease the outflow of ozone harming substances altogether
whenever supplanted with petroleum products. Since sustainable power source
supplies are acquired normally from progressing streams of energy in our
environment, it ought to be economical. For sustainable power source to be
economical, it must be boundless and give non-destructive conveyance of ecological
merchandise and ventures. For example, an economical bio-fuel ought not build the
net CO outflows, ought not negatively influence nourishment security, nor₂
undermine biodiversity (Liang, 2017). Is that truly what is going on today? I surmise
not.
Despite the remarkable favorable circumstances of sustainable power sources, certain
deficiency exists, for example, the discontinuity of generation because of regular
varieties as most sustainable power source assets are atmosphere subordinate, that is
the reason its exploitation requires complex structure, planning and control
advancement strategies. Luckily, the persistent innovative advances in PC equipment
and programming are allowing logical analysts to deal with these improvement
challenges utilizing computational assets pertinent to the inexhaustible and reasonable
energy field (Dhillon et al., 2014).
Research Question
Is there a universal preferred source of renewable energy or there are some factors
influencing the choice in a given situation? If any what are the factors and their
significance?

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