Renewable energy

Renewable energy is useful energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally
replenished on a human timescale, including carbon neutral sources like sunlight, wind, rain, tides,
waves, and geothermal heat.[2] The term often also encompasses biomass as well, whose carbon
neutral status is under debate. [3][4] This type of energy source stands in contrast to fossil fuels, which
are being used far more quickly than they are being replenished.

Renewable energy in developing countries

More developing countries are implementing the public policies needed for the widespread
development of renewable energy technologies and markets, which have traditionally been dominated
by Europe, Japan, and North America. The exceptions include countries like Brazil, which has built the
world’s leading biofuels industry, China, India, which are leaders in developing decentralized renewable
sources such as small hydro, small wind, biogas, and solar water heating

However, policies like feed-in tariff are applied. Besides, with the Kyoto Protocol, the program called the
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) that allows for industrialized nations to invest in projects that
reduce emissions in developing countries as an alternative to more expensive emission reductions in
their own countries.

Developing-country Governments need to steer resources mobilized for large-scale investments into
new production sectors and new technologies. Some argue that policies should base on active industrial
policies, combining large scale investments and active policy interventions

There is a need of subsidizing these type of energy services to make them affordable to the major part
of the population.

Impacts of renewable energy resources

These resources also provide social benefits like improvement of health, according to choice of
consumer, advancement in technologies, and opportunities for the work, but some basic considerations
should be taken for the benefit of humans, for example, climate conditions, level of education and
standard of living, and region whether urban or rural from agricultural point of view. Social aspects are
the basic considerations for the development of any country.
The following social benefits can be achieved by renewable energy systems: local employment, better
health, job opportunities, and consumer choice.

 Education
 Renewable energy can also contribute to education, by providing electricity to schools.
Renewable energy for cooking and heating can reduce the time that children spend out of
school collecting fuel.
 Health
 2.4 billion people use only traditional biomass, such as wood, residues and dung, for cooking
and heating. The constant use of these types of energy sources exposes them to indoor
particulate and carbon monoxide concentrations many times higher than World Health
Organization (WHO) standards.