In the 21st century, the energy trend will be toward technologies that can best serve the greatest population with the least use of valuable resources, while also having the smallest adverse impact on the environment. Changing from a global system in which more than 85% of the energy used produces carbon, to a system where very little carbon is released, requires fundamental changes in technology and major investments in capital equipment turnover or replacement. As a result of steady population growth and needed economic expansion, projections indicate that the world will require 50% to 100% more energy in 2050 than it does today. By mid-century, 85% of the world's population will be living in developing countries, and those countries will account for the major part of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Even with continuous efficiency improvements, the stabilization of atmospheric CO2 concentrations will require a serious long-term commitment to zero-carbon alternatives for large-scale global deployment. In order to have clean and green energy a new technology is improved with which the electricity is generated from LIVING PLANTS without disturbing their lifecycle or their growth and with zero adverse impact on environment. This technology enables us to produce electricity from living plants and practically at every site where plants can grow. It is based on natural processes and is safe for both the plant, and its environment. We can make our own green roofs to power our houses and can imagine each wetland and rice paddy field in the world turning into a power plant. “Plant-e” is a company that develops and produces products by which living plants generate electricity.

1. Plant
Power
A New way to
produce
ELECTRICITY
By
N YASHWANTH
134G1A0291
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2. PLANT POWER
By
N YASHWANTH
Under the guidance of
G MEERI MATHA M.Tech(Ph.D)
Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
SRINIVASA RAMANUJAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
(Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University)
ANANTHAPURAMU-515701
2017
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3. Contents
 What-Introduction
 Why-Importance
 How-Technology
 Status of Technology
 Applications
 Pros &Cons
 Conclusion
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4. Introduction
 “Plant Power” is an innovative technology which is
used to produce electricity at free of cost and ECO
FRIENDLY.
 With the help of basic equipment(like electrodes)we
can generate electricity from living plants with out
effecting the plant growth.
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5. Importance
 Why do we need this new technology?
 We are in great need of electricity which doesn’t harm
environment as there is lot of pollution from the green
house gases which are the major by products of the
conventional energy sources like thermal stations
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6. Technology
 Plants produces organic matter in the process of
photosynthesis
 Only a part of this organic matter is used for plant-growth, but
a large part can’t be used by the plant and is excreted into the
soil through their roots.
 Around the roots naturally occurring micro-organisms break
down the organic compounds to gain energy from. In this
process, electrons are released as a waste product..
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7. Technology
 We can provide an electrode for the micro-organisms to
donate their electrons and they can be harvested as
electricity.
 Research has shown that plant-growth isn’t
compromised while harvesting electricity, so plants
keep on growing while electricity is concurrently
produced
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8. Status of Technology
 This technology is presently patented by a company
‘PLANT E’ in Netherlands.
 They produce required equipment for this purpose and
they witnessed successful operation.
 Lot of R&D work is done and still going on, which is
lead by Marjolein Helder and David Strik to improve
the efficiency/performance.
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9. Applications
 At present it is being used by some households in
Netherlands for lighting purpose.
 It is also used by the District Development Company
and Christian College for small scale applications on
the roof tops of buildings
 Recently they tried this technology on national high
way which supplied electricity for the guiding lights(
used plants which are planted on the divider)
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10. Pros & Cons
 Pros
 Its free of cost (Except initial installation cost)
 Completely ECO FRIENDLY with zero carbon
emissions.
 Long lasting with out any maintenance.
 Its not seasonal like solar and wind energies.
 Cons
 At present only less amount of electricity can be
produced as it is still in development stage.
 Costly equipment.
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11. Conclusion
 We believe, POWER is next to the OXYGEN for human beings,
but now its more than oxygen because we are able to prepare
oxygen in laboratories and for that we require power and it should
be ECO FRIENDLY.
So, Let us strive for the enrichment of this GREEN
TECHNOLOGY and save the planet`s GREEN.
Let us hope for the betterment in this direction.
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12. Thank You
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