Balachandra, P. and Ravindranath, D. and Ravindranath, N.H. (2010) Energy efficiency in India: Assessing the policy regimes and their impacts. Energy Policy, 38 (11). pp. 6428-6438.
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Abstract
In the recent years, India has emerged as one of the fast growing economies of the world necessitating equally rapid increase in modern energy consumption. With an imminent global climate change threat, India will have difficulties in continuing with this rising energy use levels towards achieving high economic growth. It will have to follow an energy-efficient pathway in attaining this goal. In this context, an attempt is made to present India's achievements on the energy efficiency front by tracing the evolution of policies and their impacts. The results indicate that India has made substantial progress in improving energy efficiency which is evident from the reductions achieved in energy intensities of GDP to the tune of 88% during 1980–2007. Similar reductions have been observed both with respect to overall Indian economy and the major sectors of the economy. In terms of energy intensity of GDP, India occupies a relatively high position of nine among the top 30 energy consuming countries of the world.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Energy efficiency, Energy intensity, Climate change |
| Author Affiliation: | Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India |
| Subjects: | Agricultural Engineering |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr B Krishnamurthy |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2016 03:54 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Nov 2016 03:54 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.08.013 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/14492 |
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