Question

Gujarat Energy Development Agency is working for which type of energy resource?
A) Conventional energy resource
B) Non- conventional energy resource
C) Both A and B
D) None of the above

Answer 1

Hint:
GEDA (Gujarat Energy Development Agency) is one of the premier organizations and a forerunner in India that has been working in the fields of renewable energy development and energy conservation. GEDA is shouldering the responsibilities of a state nodal agency for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Sources of Gujarat and the state designated agency for Bureau of Energy Efficiency.

Complete Step by Step Answer:
The Gujarat Energy Development Agency plays a pioneering role in the development of a long-term renewable energy use policy and implementation of sustainable energy programmes across the state of Gujarat. The agency’s challenge has been to make renewable energy and energy efficient technologies economically and commercially viable to the majority of the population. GEDA was catalytic in the formation of the Commission of Additional Sources of Energy in the year 1981, which later transformed to the Department of Non-conventional Energy Sources a year later in 1982 and a full-fledged Ministry that is the Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources in the 90s, which is now the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).

Thus, the correct answer is B.

Note:
The renewable energy promotion and popularization programmes organized in the state are a result of over 3 decades of untiring efforts by GEDA and it has pioneered several sustainable initiatives, many of which are among the country’s first. GEDA has in a way been the crucible of ideas for promoting the use of renewable sources of energy as alternatives to the conventionally used fuels.