Companies With Foresight Warming Up To Solar Power

Companies With Foresight Warming Up To Solar Power

Renewable energy sources hold the key to peace and longevity of the earth. The current battle for resources, whether it is in Crimea or the South China Sea is almost always over oil and gas reserves. To avoid pitting humans against each other in battlefields, switching to renewable sources of energy is the ideal solution to the world's resource crunch problems.

With the White House report on global warming confirming that the earth is in for climate change at a rate never seen before, companies are realising that adequate foresight is needed to initiate sustainable developement for the earth's welfare and their own profits . Groundfos Pumps Indian has taken a leap to solar power. It has found rooftop solar power generation to be a viable solution for its needs. Last year, the average cost of power worked out at 12 rupees per unit. Solar power costs only 7 rupees per unit. The difference is massive if you add up the numbers.

Groundfos Pumps has put up a 52 kilowatt rooftop unit for generating solar power. It aims to add another 6 kilowatts following the success of this energy source. The average power bill works out to be much more expensive if non-renewable sources of energy are opted for. Electricity generated by a rooftop solar power plant will cost 8 rupees at the most. This rooftop revolution can meet the energy needs of the commerical sector at very low rates.

Some experts have opined that for certain industries, solar power does not work out to be cheap. While this may be the case, solar power has the ability to remain stable as far as prices are concerned. Gas and oil price hike have become political issues now.

Those who want to access energy at stable prices and opt for a cleaner and greener earth should definitely go in for solar power and other forms of renewable energy. Cost of grid power will rise as non-renewable sources of energy diminish further. Eventually, there will come a time when gas and oil reserves are completely finished because they are non-renewable sources of energy. What will also be finished in the process is earth and human existence, if current patterns of climate change and reports on global warming are to be believed.

Even those who want to dispute the exact impact of global warming cannot deny that this phenomenon has some adverse impact on our planet. Lobbyists for non-renewable sources of energy are missing the big picture. The larger picture involves their health and the welfare of their planet.

Companies who are taking a shine to solar power are paving the way for a brighter, cleaner earth. More importantly, they are taking concrete steps to ensure the continued survival of the human race. Many religious texts have talked about the end of the earth one day.

What is pitiable is that people do not understand that the true reason for the end would be each and every person who is thoughtlessly opting for fossil fuels as energy source when perfectly viable options and alternatives exist.

Solar plant builders such as Tata Power Solar and SunEdison are right in pursuing their plans for expanding this renewable source of energy as a commerically viable option for companies across the world. If 2012 was the year when the cycles of the sun changed, let 2014 be the year when mankind too changes their cycle of energy use to a safer, renewable source.