To meet this surging demand, animal power for electricity generation is the best option to fulfill the energy needs of India and bridge the energy demand-supply gap.

1. ENERGY GENERATION THROUGH
ANIMAL POWER
Project by
Pramil Wakchaure

2. India, a rapidly growing economy with more than 1 billion people, is facing a huge
energy demand. The country stands fifth in the world in the production and consumption of
electricity. The electricity production has expanded over the years but we cannot deny the fact that
the population of the country is also expanding. The power produced in the country is mostly from
coal (53%) and it is predicted that country’s coal reserves won’t last beyond 2040-50. More than
72% population living in villages and half of the villages remain without electricity. It’s high time
that our country should concentrate more on energy efficiency, conservation and renewable
energy.
To meet this surging demand, animal power for electricity generation is the best option to
fulfill the energy needs of India and bridge the energy demand-supply gap.
Before the Industrial Revolution, and indeed during its early stages, men employed
machines which neither caused pollution nor depleted finite natural resources. Wind, water, tide
and muscle - both animal and human - provided sources of energy that are still available to man
and are still used to power simple machines in many parts of the world today. Now it’s time to use
muscle power of animal for generation of electricity.
It is very difficult and very costly to available grid power everywhere specially at remote
isolated communities in developing countries. There are many renewable power sources like solar
power, wind power, hydropower, bio-energy, geo-thermal power, tidal energy etc., but all have
their limitations. Although from beginning of mankind animals have been using for domestic
works at rural and remote areas, but the electricity generation by Animal power is a novel
technology.
Proposed Works
We are going to design a system which create localized electricity in villages in most
simple & sustainable manner. It uses abundantly available local & natural Bio resources to create
distributed generation of electricity.

3. This energy can be utilized for
 Home lighting (CFL)
 Water lifting and pumping
 Battery charging for TV, Fan,
Computer
 To bring in Telemedicine facilities
 Multimedia Education
 Empowering tiny Agro processing
industries
 Replacing Kerosene usage in villages
 Entertainment & income generation
 Empowering Villages
This technology has been picked up from a traditional rural technology used for Sugarcane
juice & edible oil extraction by crushing. This innovation is a sustainable, green & an appropriate
technology. In brief ,work animal(s) are made to work at natural speed, in a circular path, tied to
an appropriate lever rod. Distance from center is such that animals can move in comfort. In
process, a mighty torque is fed into a prime mover & electricity gushes out from the output
end through the attached generator. This is used on-line or off-line (through battery storage). With
one pair of healthy bullocks, power is sufficient for lighting 40-50 CFL of 20 Watts each or for
charging rechargeable lanterns & batteries for off-line applications like TV, Computer,
telemedicine etc.
This technology has potential to trigger a Green Revolution of energy kind. It can catapult
India towards energy self-reliance. Up to 30000 MW of decentralized power can be created in
villages through this device alone which is almost 25% of the available usable total power in India
as on date.
The Resource:
India has the largest population of draught animals in the world (Approx. 88
Million).This localized resource is exhaustible and available resource with farmers, yet to be
optimized properly.
Animal data (…………..):

4. Investment & Profit realization
1 hour – 2 units
8 hours – 1 day – 8*2=16 units
1 month – 30*12=480 units
1 year – 360*12=5760 units
1 unit – cost Rs. 3.60/-
1 year – 5760 * 3.60 = 20736/-
Payback period – 65,000/ 20736 = 3.1 years