10-10-2012, 11:30 AM
RENEWABLE ENERGY- COOPERATIVE OPPORTUNITY
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Energy need
Energy is the basic requirement for contemplating work in urban as well as rural areas.
More than 2 Billion people Worldwide are unable to obtain clear and safe fuels.
Mostly rural peoples of developing countries don’t have access to electricity.
Barrier that blocks the opportunity is rural household income, less consumption and logistics.
Gap between urban and rural population is getting bigger.
State of development is indicated by the energy consumption pattern.
Cooperative and Rural India
Cooperative – key to India’s rural resurgence
Cooperative prevail from Vedic age
Cooperative movement started in 1904
First Credit society cooperative act facilitated in 1912
Cooperative movement signifies strength of Indian Democracy-105 years of development
Power, irrigation, rural masses and cooperatives are strongly interlinked.
Cooperatives strength in India
No. of societies – 504,000
Member in cooperatives society – 239 Million members
Coverage area – 100% villages
Rural household – 67%
Presence in hamlets with population of less than 200 peoples.
Employees working in cooperative sector – 15.47 Million
Self employed peoples – More than 14.39 Million
Cooperatives and Renewable energy Worldwide
Wind cooperatives of Denmark is a nationwide movement and has more than 100,000 family members.
Middlegrunden cooperative of Denmark operates the World’s largest offshore wind farm outside Copenhagen harbor.
Wind cooperatives also have their presence in 24 US states, Germany and Netherlands.
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC) in Anchorage provides electricity to 53 small native villages.
La Sociedad Cooperativa Popular Limitada (SCPL) of Argentina owns the largest wind power park in South America.
Conclusion
Given the international climate of awareness of global
warming and other environmental impacts caused by
imprudent energy use, the times is right for
cooperatives to develop a cohesive program
to extend renewable energy to rural communities
A renewable energy village through
cooperatives will break the
poverty-environment nexus identified
as a source and symptom of
underdevelopment in rural India.