Volume : VIII, Issue : III, March - 2018

Consumer choice and Utilization for renewable energy schemes--A Study in Northern Tripura

Tamal Chaudhuri, Dr. D. Ghosh

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The Energy has become an important and one of the basic infrastructures for economic development of a country. The oil crisis of the country like  India Government has taken decision to use alternative source of energy .Similarly Government of Tripura with the help of Tripura Renewable Energy Development Agency (TREDA) jointly taken initiative for the proper utilization of different renewable energy schemes and continuously awareness programme in different district, subdivision ,blocks and panchyat levels for the benefit of people of Tripura.

 

The study investigates the choice and utilization level of people using  alternative source of energy in comparison to traditional source of energy. The case study is being developed after interaction with the people of Panisagar, Kumarghat and Dharmanagar (North Tripura Dist.) People those who are using alternative source of energy for fulfillment of their daily necessities and also they were asked to fill up their opinion regarding some close ended questions which portrays some key facts regarding their choice and selection and utilization of different schemes of non–conventional energy. A maximum numbers of people are moving to use non–traditional source of energy rather than conventional source of energy.

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Tamal Chaudhuri, Dr. D. Ghosh, Consumer choice and Utilization for renewable energy schemes--A Study in Northern Tripura, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-3 | March-2018


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