IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/energy/v36y2011i6p3650-3658.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

India’s energy needs and low carbon options

Author

Listed:
  • Parikh, Jyoti
  • Parikh, Kirit

Abstract

India’s aspiration for economic growth has consequences for energy growth and CO2 emissions. This paper examines India’s need for energy with 20 year perspectives. From an earlier paper by K. Parikh et al. (2009), demand scenario are examined from the supply perspectives ranging from coal, hydrocarbon, nuclear, hydrogen, hydro and other renewable etc. None of these are substantial and India will have to rely on imports. The need for energy has to be reduced by a drive for energy efficiency and renewable energy. Government programmes for the above are also commented upon. Though India’s CO2 emissions are unlikely to grow very much due to energy scarcity and energy mix the article examines the potential to reduce CO2 emissions and the associated costs involved in various options. It finds that 30% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2030 is feasible but would involve additional costs. The most promising option is to reduce energy demand by various measures to increase energy use efficiency in production and consumption.

Suggested Citation

  • Parikh, Jyoti & Parikh, Kirit, 2011. "India’s energy needs and low carbon options," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(6), pages 3650-3658.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:6:p:3650-3658
    DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2011.01.046
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544211000697
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.energy.2011.01.046?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. ., 2006. "National Economic Planning," Chapters, in: David Alexander Clark (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development Studies, chapter 83, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Pillai, Indu R. & Banerjee, Rangan, 2009. "Renewable energy in India: Status and potential," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 34(8), pages 970-980.
    3. Parikh, Kirit S. & Karandikar, Vivek & Rana, Ashish & Dani, Prasanna, 2009. "Projecting India's energy requirements for policy formulation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 34(8), pages 928-941.
    4. Grover, R.B. & Chandra, Subhash, 2006. "Scenario for growth of electricity in India," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 34(17), pages 2834-2847, November.
    5. Parikh, Jyoti K. & Parikh, Kirit S., 1977. "Mobilization and impacts of bio-gas technologies," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 2(4), pages 441-455.
    6. Parikh, Jyoti K. & Sudhakara Reddy, B. & Banerjee, Rangan & Koundinya, S., 1996. "DSM survey in India: Awareness, barriers and implementability," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 21(10), pages 955-966.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Barelli, L. & Ottaviano, A., 2014. "Solid oxide fuel cell technology coupled with methane dry reforming: A viable option for high efficiency plant with reduced CO2 emissions," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 118-129.
    2. Vieira, Abel S. & Beal, Cara D. & Ghisi, Enedir & Stewart, Rodney A., 2014. "Energy intensity of rainwater harvesting systems: A review," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 225-242.
    3. Singh, Rhythm, 2018. "Energy sufficiency aspirations of India and the role of renewable resources: Scenarios for future," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P2), pages 2783-2795.
    4. Chandran Govindaraju, V.G.R. & Tang, Chor Foon, 2013. "The dynamic links between CO2 emissions, economic growth and coal consumption in China and India," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 310-318.
    5. Zhang, Kai & Lau, Hon Chung & Bokka, Harsha Kumar & Hadia, Nanji J., 2022. "Decarbonizing the power and industry sectors in India by carbon capture and storage," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 249(C).
    6. Jiang, Jingjing & Ye, Bin & Liu, Junguo, 2019. "Research on the peak of CO2 emissions in the developing world: Current progress and future prospect," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C), pages 186-203.
    7. Sindhu, Sonal & Nehra, Vijay & Luthra, Sunil, 2016. "Identification and analysis of barriers in implementation of solar energy in Indian rural sector using integrated ISM and fuzzy MICMAC approach," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 70-88.
    8. Thirugnanasambandam, M. & Hasanuzzaman, M. & Saidur, R. & Ali, M.B. & Rajakarunakaran, S. & Devaraj, D. & Rahim, N.A., 2011. "Analysis of electrical motors load factors and energy savings in an Indian cement industry," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 36(7), pages 4307-4314.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Singh, Rhythm, 2018. "Energy sufficiency aspirations of India and the role of renewable resources: Scenarios for future," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 81(P2), pages 2783-2795.
    2. Nihit Goyal, 2021. "Limited Demand or Unreliable Supply? A Bibliometric Review and Computational Text Analysis of Research on Energy Policy in India," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(23), pages 1-23, December.
    3. Gambhir, Ajay & Napp, Tamaryn A. & Emmott, Christopher J.M. & Anandarajah, Gabrial, 2014. "India's CO2 emissions pathways to 2050: Energy system, economic and fossil fuel impacts with and without carbon permit trading," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 791-801.
    4. Makade, Rahul G. & Chakrabarti, Siddharth & Jamil, Basharat & Sakhale, C.N., 2020. "Estimation of global solar radiation for the tropical wet climatic region of India: A theory of experimentation approach," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 2044-2059.
    5. Mahavar, S. & Rajawat, P. & Marwal, V.K. & Punia, R.C. & Dashora, P., 2013. "Modeling and on-field testing of a Solar Rice Cooker," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 404-412.
    6. Rentizelas, Athanasios & Georgakellos, Dimitrios, 2014. "Incorporating life cycle external cost in optimization of the electricity generation mix," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 134-149.
    7. Khaled, Mohamed & Ibrahim, Mostafa M. & Abdel Hamed, Hesham E. & AbdelGwad, Ahmed F., 2019. "Investigation of a small Horizontal–Axis wind turbine performance with and without winglet," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 187(C).
    8. Reddy, B. Sudhakara, 2018. "Economic dynamics and technology diffusion in indian power sector," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 425-435.
    9. Ben Jebli, Mehdi & Ben Youssef, Slim, 2014. "Timing of adoption of clean technologies, transboundary pollution and international trade," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 8, pages 1-31.
    10. Gonçalves da Silva, C., 2010. "The fossil energy/climate change crunch: Can we pin our hopes on new energy technologies?," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(3), pages 1312-1316.
    11. Jha, Sunil Kr. & Bilalovic, Jasmin & Jha, Anju & Patel, Nilesh & Zhang, Han, 2017. "Renewable energy: Present research and future scope of Artificial Intelligence," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 77(C), pages 297-317.
    12. Bhutto, Abdul Waheed & Bazmi, Aqeel Ahmed & Zahedi, Gholamreza, 2012. "Greener energy: Issues and challenges for Pakistan—Solar energy prospective," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 16(5), pages 2762-2780.
    13. Indora, Sunil & Kandpal, Tara C., 2018. "Institutional and community solar cooking in India using SK-23 and Scheffler solar cookers: A financial appraisal," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 501-511.
    14. Jadhao, Sachin B. & Pandit, Aniruddha B. & Bakshi, Bhavik R., 2017. "The evolving metabolism of a developing economy: India’s exergy flows over four decades," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 206(C), pages 851-857.
    15. Parikh, Jyoti K., 1979. "Renewable energy options: What could developing countries expect from them?," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 4(5), pages 989-994.
    16. Singh, G.K. & Kumar, A. Senthil & Saini, R.P., 2010. "Performance evaluation of series compensated self-excited six-phase induction generator for stand-alone renewable energy generation," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 35(1), pages 288-297.
    17. Giri, Puspendu & Paul, Somnath & Debnath, Bijoy Krishna, 2024. "A fuzzy Graph Theory and Matrix Approach (fuzzy GTMA) to select the best renewable energy alternative in India," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 358(C).
    18. Ramana, M.V. & Hopkins, Laura Berzak & Glaser, Alexander, 2013. "Licensing small modular reactors," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 61(C), pages 555-564.
    19. Carla Cristiane Sokulski & Murillo Vetroni Barros & Rodrigo Salvador & Evandro Eduardo Broday & Antonio Carlos de Francisco, 2022. "Trends in Renewable Electricity Generation in the G20 Countries: An Analysis of the 1990–2020 Period," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-21, February.
    20. Makade, Rahul G. & Jamil, Basharat, 2018. "Statistical analysis of sunshine based global solar radiation (GSR) models for tropical wet and dry climatic Region in Nagpur, India: A case study," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 87(C), pages 22-43.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Energy; Low carbon; India; Strategy;
    All these keywords.

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:energy:v:36:y:2011:i:6:p:3650-3658. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.