Renewable Sources of Energy

Advantage and Disadvantage

Advantages Disadvantages
• Toxins do not emit into the atmosphere, and a • Initial costs are very high for setting up
safer, healthier environment is created. renewable energy plants that require proper
preparation and implementation.

• Renewable energy sources are present all over • Solar and wind require vast tracts of land to
the world and cannot be exhausted. generate energy amounts that are competitive
with fossil fuel burning.
• The cost of tapping renewable energies is • Climate can impact renewable energy sources
decreasing because of the technology and weaken their efficiency.
advances.
• The machinery requires qualified technicians
for some renewable energy plants.
• There are few to no greenhouse gas emissions
associated with renewable energy that push up
the Earth's temperature.