Energy sources with low environmental impact are sometimes called green energy or clean energy. The economic dimension of sustainability covers economic development, efficient use of energy, and energy security to ensure that each country has constant access to sufficient energy.
The current energy system contributes to many environmental problems, including climate change, air pollution, biodiversity loss, the release of toxins into the environment, and water scarcity.
Renewable energy sources are essential to sustainable energy, as they generally strengthen energy security and emit far fewer greenhouse gases than fossil fuels.
Clean energy is energy in full development to fulfill our current desire to conserve the environment and deal with the non-renewable fuel crisis. With no pollution or waste, there are differences between clean and renewable energy sources, as we will explain later on.
Low-carbon energy sources
Government is working to achieve a low-carbon energy supply by 2050 that will be safe, reliable and affordable. The following energy forms are low in CO2 emissions:
- solar energy
- onshore wind energy
- offshore wind energy
- biomass energy
- geothermal heat
- hydropower … etc.
Clean energy comes from generation systems that do not produce any kind of pollution, notably greenhouse gases like Co2, which cause climate change.
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
Clean energy and renewable energy are two concepts that are bundled together, but they are not the same thing and it is important to understand the difference. The first difference is the pollution they cause. You may not realize that renewable energies can cause pollution.
For example, biogas and biodiesel are renewable sources of energy because, among other things, they come from natural, inexhaustible sources. However, unlike most renewable energies, they pollute the atmosphere on combustion, emitting greenhouse gases.
Clean energies do not pollute and, therefore, it is fair to say that most renewable sources of energy are also clean and vice versa.