Trends in Energy Consumption in India: India’s energy outlook until 2020

By Narsi Santhanam • May 6th, 2009 • Category: India Energy, Renewable Energy

An excellent white paper on India’s energy outlook until 2020. A must-read paper (PDF), from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See the PDF link below

The report says that the goal of the project was to build a new generation global energy and CO2 emissions model that will be based on the level of diffusion of end use technologies. The model will address end-use energy demand characteristics including sectoral patterns of energy consumption, trends in saturation and usage of energy-using equipment, technological change including efficiency improvements, and links between urbanization and energy demand.

The present report presents

A detailed picture of trends in energy consumption in India at the sectoral level such as industry, transport, and buildings without further disaggregation.
For each sector, drivers of energy and technology are indentified. Trends are then analyzed and used to project future growth.
Results of this report provide valuable inputs to the elaboration of realistic energy efficiency scenarios.

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Narasimhan (Narsi) has extensive experience in understanding renewable energy markets and strategic levers for success in these markets. His special focus has been his work on the Indian renewable energy industry. His work in the previous 15 years have spanned market and industry research, product management and international sales, and strategic consulting. see more http://www.eai.in/ref/team/ns.html

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