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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.
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This chapter work is motivated by the research project, entitled ‘Solar Thermal Collection Efficiency Improvement using Multistaging of Parabolic Dish Collector’, by State Council for Science, Technology & Environment, Shimla, H.P. INDIA (Grant No. SCST&E (R&D)/2017–18).
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Bopche, S.B. (2020). Installations of Solar Systems in Remote Areas of Himachal Pradesh, INDIA: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Tyagi, H., Chakraborty, P., Powar, S., Agarwal, A. (eds) Solar Energy. Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0675-8_3
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