ABSTRACT

As the second-largest country of the world, undergoing explosive growth, India represents a unique and little-tapped source of expertise on multifarious issues of economic and social development. Among many other problems of concern, the development of alternative sources of energy is crucial to the future wellbeing of India “ indeed, of the globe. The increasing demand of the energy has forced the mankind to find a way out which will be efficiently and abundantly available source of energy. This made the human race to think of the beneficiaries of non-conventional energy development in India. Today one of the latest trends of non-conventional energy development to be implemented in our country is GEOTHERMAL POWER GENERATING TECHNOLOGY.
Geothermal energy is a proven resource for direct heat and power generation. In over 30 countries geothermal resources provide directly used heat capacity of 12,000 MW and electric power generation capacity of over 8,000 MW. It meets a significant portion of the electrical power demand in several developing countries. Individual geothermal power plants can be as small as 100 kW or as large as 100 MW depending on the energy resource and power demand. Geothermal basically means earthâ„¢s heat, which is used to produce power.
The Geothermal energy will avail a greater advantage of producing power from the non-conventional source. In this method there are more of advantages as compared to other non-conventional sources of energy generation. Geothermal energy will be dearer to the human race as it clean, reliable, flexible and economical form of energy used for industries, commercial users, greenhouses, aquaculture and many more applications. Use of this form of energy can greatly minimize the impact, resulting in environmental benefits for many states and local communities with growing energy needs; also the use of geothermal energy keeps our environment clean.