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Renewable Energy: A Solution to Hazardous Emissions

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The problem of energy security, increasing prices of energy, the aspect of environmental pollution and depletion of the known fuel reserves in future have created a scope for utilization of renewable resources. Increasing prices of fossil fuels and costs associated with emissions may affect the economy of a country severely. Similarly, fossil fuels although produce useful energy, are responsible for production of harmful emissions like CO2, SOx, NOx etc. These dangerous emissions are an acute threat to human health on our plannet. The obvious choice available is to use renewable energy, which can play a critical role to mitigate these emissions. In this article, hazardous environmental effect of fossil fuels is discussed. The status of existing renewable energy technologies especially wind and solar energy and their future growth trend is presented in this article. In this article a focused literature review on research articles discussing the environmental impact of replacement of fossil fuel energy technologies with renewable technologies, with goals to prove that if fossil fuel energy is replaced by renewable technologies can be a solution to hazardous emissions. Last part of the article provides directions for renewable energy policies of a country, which could help to increase the renewable energy mix in the traditional energy production.

DOI 10.11648/j.jenr.s.2016050101.12
Published in Journal of Energy and Natural Resources (Volume 5, Issue 1-1, February 2016)

This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrical Power Resources: Coal versus Renewable Energy

Page(s) 6-11
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Keywords

Renewable Energy, Emissions, Greenhouse Gases, Mercury Emissions, Wind Energy, Solar Energy

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