hmm.. Interesting.. yes Nuclear power is the way to go, but incidents like Fukushima and god forbid, Chernobyl, scares the hell out of me.
India presently has an installed capacity of 5780 MW from nuclear power, being generated from 21 reactors distributed across 7 plants. Only 7 nuclear power plants across the entire width and breadth of a large country like India is terribly less. India has an ambitious plan to increase nuclear power generation to 63000 MW capacity by 2032. Let's see how that goes.
I have always been a great supporter and ardent fan of renewable sources of energy. I have been into seminars, wrote papers, conducted tours, did my graduation project on that too. Grids are always a problem and I'm aware it will be a problem integrating large farms into them. But then, that is a solvable problem and should not take much of an effort to do so.
Recently, someone came up with this interesting idea of setting up solar panels over water-canals, used for irrigation purposes. I must say, I liked it very much. You don't have to find plane land, and setting up these panels over the canals reduces water loss due to evaporation.
We can also use solar energy on smaller scales, even on personal level, like running small home appliances. I myself recharge my laptop, tablet and phones on solar power.
I say, we should start taking baby steps in this direction. Changes may not be realized overnight, Rome was not built in a day. But, we should focus on giving consistent efforts and gradually situation will improve. Tropic of Cancer passes through the center of India, enough sunlight. We should put all possible forms of available resources to good use.