Renewable energy sources and its use are one of globaly most frequently mentioned subjects. Reason to that is hiding in incresed human consciousness regarding environmental sensitivity to human activity, especially regarding excessive usage of fossile fuels which pollute environment and represent a threat of survival. The purpose of this work is to point out most important features of renewable energy sources, problem that exist in current technology and to point out social and economical benefits of construction of the plant which as a energy source use renewable energy sources. In the process of making this paper methods that were used are: historical method, method of analysis and synthesis, inductive and deductive method, classification method, comparative method and descriptive metod.