Mission

Energy is the vital input for all round development, of mankind and of civilisation.

Why should we concentrate on Non-Conventional Energy systems? Why should we opt for solar energy in particular?

The quantum of energy utilised by any region or social group determines their standard of living. For example the per capita energy consumption in the United States is the highest at present, the same is least in underdeveloped countries like Somalia or Bangladesh. In the last two hundred years, with the start of the Industrial Revolution, newer and newer sources of energy are being harnessed. Starting with steam energy, fossil fuels like coal and petroleum, electricity through Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear generating systems have been the major sources of energy production.

But each one of the above has its own limitations and detrimental effects on our environment, leading some of our environmentalists to declare that development is nothing but environmental degradation to satisfy the greed of the current generation. Looking forward for a healthy world to develop, we have to seek energy generation methods that would be friendly to both development and environment.

The current energy economics too calls for a revision of energy generation method. For example efforts have been made to produce electricity through Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear generating systems. Vast grids have been created to pool in this energy and distribute evenly. Despite these efforts for which heavy investment has been made, our growing energy demands are so enormous that we are continuously facing shortages. It is imperative to increase power generation capacities.

But in this connection, though it is now acknowledged that nuclear, fossil fuel based thermal power plants and hydro electric power are the cheapest to produce and all have still vast potential for further expansion, all have some limitations like high incidence of transmission loss and high cost of transmission infrastructure. The fossil fuels used for thermal generation is getting depleted fast and generation is getting costlier day by day. Further, both thermal and nuclear systems generate environmentally harmful effects. More investment on these simply means paying high cost for introducing greater environmental hazards

Throughout the world energy planners and environmentalists have agreed that it would be suicidal for humanity to continue the present conventional energy generation methods, and we should opt for environmental friendly and renewable energy sources.

It is with this background that ESPEE has taken up popularisation of environmental friendly non-conventional energy concepts and products. For example, sun is the source of all energy in this universe. How about using it directly without affecting the environment? ESPEE has taken this as its mission through popularisation and distribution of Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal products.