Renewable energy options available today can meet demand for diverse applications like village electrification, grid power generation, decentralized energy supply, and transportation. The following sections discuss these applications of renewable energy in detail.

Distributed Power Generation
Distributed generation (DG) is the integrated or stand-alone use of renewable energy technologies based on locally available resources for electricity generation close to the point of consumption.

Decentralized Energy Supply
Renewables can supply thermal energy in different temperature ranges. Some of these options can also be adopted as demand side management (DSM) measures.

Grid Conected Power Generation
Renewable energy resources can also be harnessed for supplying grid-quality electric power to the national grids thereby complementing the mainstream grid power.

Transportaion
Renewable energy resources can offer environment-friendly alternatives to the petroleum fuels.