RESCUING OUR ENVIRONMENT THROUGH RENEWABLE ENERGY

Adebayo, A. A.

Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering,

Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria.

E-mail: aadeolar@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT: Our environment has really suffered from its depletion by the emission that it got through the fossil fuel engines and from household equipment. Apart from these, all these energy sources are foreseen to be running out and may soon no longer be available for our use, thus the need to have a source that is sustainable and efficient. It has also been found that most of the renewable energy sources are seasonal thus limiting their availability to the season in which they are available. This paper thus take a look at the various renewable energy sources, their season of availability and unavailability, it also look into how they can be harnessed during their period of availability so as to make the best use of them, also how they can be alternated so that in the period when they are not available alternative can be used. The paper concludes with the advantages of renewable energy switching.