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Another practical measure from California which also generates solar power is educative. A recent report says: “Kohl’s department stores have flipped the switch on a rooftop solar energy system at its Laguna Niguel store as part of the largest planned US photovoltaic solar rollout to date. Michael R. Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, joined Kohl’s to celebrate this significant step toward the building of solar electric systems at 63 of Kohl’s 80 California locations, which will total approximately 25 megawatts (MW). At completion, Kohl’s solar programme will represent approximately 15 per cent of California’s photovoltaic installations to date.”

It is interesting that wave farms have been found useful in electricity generation in Portugal. “What we are assembling here is the first wave farm in the world,” says Antonio Sa da Costa of Enersis.

Portugal’s enthusiasm for renewable energy has given impetus to wave power. The Socialist Prime Minister Jose Socrates, recently increased the country’s renewable energy target for 2010 from 39 per cent to 45 per cent, it was reported earlier this month.

Never go nuclear. Alternatives are abundant. Let us be Indian in poverty alleviation and power generation.