Energy Security: India's Sustainable Solutions

27 mins/ 14-18/ 2010

India faces a major energy crisis because of its rapid growth, but traditional energy sources won't be enough to meet all future needs. This programme looks at sustainable alternatives. We visit Asias largest wind farm and look at whos benefiting from this electricity generation. We then visit a bio gas plant and ask whether this renewable energy source is a solution better suited to meeting the needs of Indias rural population. We look at the problems the bio gas plant is seeking to address and find out how it has benefited the community, in particular the women.

Endorsed by Edexcel for use with their GCE Geography specification.

Mentioned in the OCR sample schemes of work and lesson plans/Teachers Handbook for OCR GCSE Geography A and B 2009 specifications.


Teachers Guidance Exam board specification links

The following links show how this programme matches different GCSE and AS/A2 specifications.

1GCSE specifications

AQA GCSE Geography A
Unit 2 The Development Gap
* A case study of one development project.
Unit 2 Globalisation
* Ways of achieving sustainable development through the use of renewable energy. A case study of one type of renewable energy..

AQA GCSE Geography B
Unit 4 Energy in the 21st century

Edexcel GCSE Geography A
Unit 2 Environmental Issues
*A wasteful world (Energy option).

Edexcel GCSE Geography B
Unit 2 Topic 7 Development dilemmas
*The characteristics of bottom-up development in developing countries. One bottom-up small-scale project in a rural area of a developing country. Judging whether this development project is sustainable or not.

OCR GCSE Geography B
Unit 2 Energy

2A level specifications

Edexcel A level Geography
* A2 Unit 3 Energy security
* A2 Unit 3 Bridging the Development Gap

OCR A level Geography
*AS Unit 2 The Energy Issue

AQA A level Geography
*AS Unit 1 Energy issues

WJEC A level Geography
* A2 Unit G3 Theme 6b India
* A2 Unit G4 Sustainable energy

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Category:

Education

Tags:

• Energy Security
• Energy Crisis
• Wind Farms
• Bio-gas
• India
• Renewable Energy
• Rural
• Pumpkin
• Geography

[NOOMATEAAA]

@sadhaklal we need to spread the mesage about Thorium!

[sadhaklal]

@workwithnature thorium. it is safer than uranium (half life is much shorter and bombs cannot be made with it). it is 600 times more abundant than uranium. one single tiny pellet is enough for a single person's entire lifetime needs. unfortunately, it will be a good 20 years before a commercial thorium power plant is made.

[workwithnature]

Hey Nice wind energy and methane digester, hope it will help in some ways. It probably will be a good short term solution. As people associated it with green living. I wonder some times what will be the ultimate solution to our growing demand on our mothers resources....