Chapter 3
Installations of Solar Systems in Remote
Areas of Himachal Pradesh, INDIA:
Challenges and Opportunities
Santosh B. Bopche
Abstract The renewable energy is an energy obtained from natural replenishable
resources. It consists of wind, water power, tidal power, solar, biomass and energy
recovered from wastes. The solar energy is available at free of cost and cleanest
source of renewable type energy that can be utilized as a better substitute to the
fossil fuel energy. These days lot of research is going on in extracting maximum
possible heat energy from the solar irradiation. From solar systems practicability and
remotely located societal upliftment point of view, it’s a big challenge to erect and run
continuously or effectively the solar energy systems in remotely located or hilly areas
of Himachal Pradesh, INDIA. The present chapter discusses various applications of
the solar concentrating collector technology that may help remotely located people
get rid of their day to day problems e.g. water freezing, water pumping, cooking,
drying of agricultural products, air conditioning etc. The challenges to be faced by
the community people to meet household and agricultural demands and ways to get
better the performance of solar-energy based systems along with opportunities for
solar energy systems to meet the requirements of remotely located people are also
discussed in this chapter.
Keywords Solar energy · Systems · Challenges · Opportunities · Rural · Remote
3.1 Introduction
The distantly located and interior/disconnected community of Himachal Pradesh
faces so many problems in their day to day routine endeavors. It comprises; for
cooking they have to still rely on conventional fuels e.g. woods, kerosene etc. For
cooking purposes bio gas can be generated more effectively with the assistance of
solar energy. Solar cookers energized by concentrating collectors can be made easily
available to such communities. During winter, at hill top locations, the pipe lines
meant for water supply gets chocked due to formation of ice. This type of problem
can completely be overcame by employing solar collector cum thermal energy storage
S. B. Bopche (B)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Hamirpur, Hamirpur 177001, India
e-mail: santoshbopche@nith.ac.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
H. Tyagi et al. (eds.), Solar Energy, Energy, Environment,
and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0675-8_3
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Installations of Solar Systems in Remote
Areas of Himachal Pradesh, INDIA:
Challenges and Opportunities
Santosh B. Bopche
Abstract The renewable energy is an energy obtained from natural replenishable
resources. It consists of wind, water power, tidal power, solar, biomass and energy
recovered from wastes. The solar energy is available at free of cost and cleanest
source of renewable type energy that can be utilized as a better substitute to the
fossil fuel energy. These days lot of research is going on in extracting maximum
possible heat energy from the solar irradiation. From solar systems practicability and
remotely located societal upliftment point of view, it’s a big challenge to erect and run
continuously or effectively the solar energy systems in remotely located or hilly areas
of Himachal Pradesh, INDIA. The present chapter discusses various applications of
the solar concentrating collector technology that may help remotely located people
get rid of their day to day problems e.g. water freezing, water pumping, cooking,
drying of agricultural products, air conditioning etc. The challenges to be faced by
the community people to meet household and agricultural demands and ways to get
better the performance of solar-energy based systems along with opportunities for
solar energy systems to meet the requirements of remotely located people are also
discussed in this chapter.
Keywords Solar energy · Systems · Challenges · Opportunities · Rural · Remote
3.1 Introduction
The distantly located and interior/disconnected community of Himachal Pradesh
faces so many problems in their day to day routine endeavors. It comprises; for
cooking they have to still rely on conventional fuels e.g. woods, kerosene etc. For
cooking purposes bio gas can be generated more effectively with the assistance of
solar energy. Solar cookers energized by concentrating collectors can be made easily
available to such communities. During winter, at hill top locations, the pipe lines
meant for water supply gets chocked due to formation of ice. This type of problem
can completely be overcame by employing solar collector cum thermal energy storage
S. B. Bopche (B)
Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Hamirpur, Hamirpur 177001, India
e-mail: santoshbopche@nith.ac.in
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
H. Tyagi et al. (eds.), Solar Energy, Energy, Environment,
and Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0675-8_3
23