energy india 2020 :
About The Book
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Looking to the enormous potential in power sector, we are launching book on Energy India - 2020 : with special focuses on global as well as Indian scenario by year 2020. The book covers perspective of global energy sector and its resources in the next ten years, the second part of the book taking stock of the situation of Indian power sector and its resources like oil, gas and coal sector and also discusses the clean technology too. The third part of the book discusses the renewable energy resources in India as well as in the world. |
In present competitive economy it is now essential for all sectors to conserve energy to cut down the power cost. Energy conservation and management is very crucial now a days where power cost increases day by day. The ESCO companies have made great efforts to save the energy to lower down the cost in domestic as well as industrial energy consumption. Apart from all these major topics, we are planning to cover latest and authentic statistical information as well as listings of global/Indian energy companies. Besides that we also cover profiles of major players, energy statistics and directory.
general scenario :
India is poised to achieve the growth rate of around 6 to 7 percent on the moderate term average. This is predicted despite the global slowdown and its after effects through which the World Economy has been passing for last several months. This would mean a considerable investment in the core sectors like energy. Despite overall increase in energy demand, per capita energy consumption in India is still very low compared to other developing countries. Today India is mostly relying upon the thermal energy though other forms of energy like Solar , Wind etc. are fast on rise. This is evident from the fact that India is world's fifth largest producer of wind power after Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the USA. A significant potential also exists for developing other non-conventional sources of energy like small hydro, biomass, and solar energy in India.
world energy scenario :
According to International Energy Agency (IEA) Report, world primary energy demand increases by 1.6% per year on an average between 2006 and 2030, registering a growth of 45 percent. The demand for oil may rise from 85 million barrels per day now to 106 mb/d in 2030. Same way demand for coal increases more than any other fuel in absolute terms. IEA 2009 report shows that there was a major shift in consumption pattern of fuel. Consumption of Gas in total energy was 14.4 percent in 1971 has increased to 15.6 percent by 2007. While consumption of oil and coal/pit has decreased in the same period. It shows the effort towards clean energy.
Renewable resources grow faster, started overtaking oil and gas and have become the largest source of energy. It is assumed that India and China may account for nearly half of incremental energy demand by 2030. Middle East is also emerging as a new demand centre for energy. Due to urbanization, the share of the world's energy consumed in cities grows to two-thirds by 2030. These present trends call for energy-supply, needing investment worth $26.3 trillion by 2030. It means an investment of over $1 trillion/year.
indian energy scenario :
India is presently the world's fourth largest economy as far as Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) terms ar concerned (the GDP in PPP terms is estimated at approximately USD 3.2 trillion) and the fifth large energy consumer in the world. However, due to its high population of approximately 1.1 billion, th per-capita consumption of most energy related products is extremely low. The per capita energ consumption is estimated to be a very modest 530 Kg of Oil Equivalent (kgoe), while the worl average is approximately 1800 kgoe.
According to CEA data of 2009 thermal energy accounts 64.6 percent share in total energy production, of which energy through coal accounts 53.3 percent while gas 10.5 percent and oil 0.9 percent. The hydro power constitute 24.7 percent while nuclear 2.9 and all renewable resources constitute only 7.7 percent share in energy generation.
According to the Planning Commission, by the year 2020, oil and natural gas will meet 44 per cent of India's energy requirement compared to 50 per cent by coal. Nuclear and hydel energy would form 2.5 per cent and 3.5 per cent, respectively. Natural Gas may form 14 per cent of our energy needs in 2020 compared to 8.6 per cent today.
The importance of oil in India can be derived from the fact that oil accounts for 36 per cent of the primary energy mix in India. If we consider natural gas, this percentage increases to 44 per cent. However, the proportion of natural gas is approximately one-third of the world average, once again indicating the potential for rapid growth. It may be noted in this context, that a heavy reliance on coal in India is not optimal, given that coal is a far more polluting fossil fuel as compared to natural gas.
Indian has immense potential of renewable resources. The renewable energy sector in India attracted investments worth US$ 3.7 billion in 2008, a growth of 17% over the previous year. According to Mr. Deepak Gupta, Secretary, MNRE, “India generates 13,878 MW of grid power from renewable resources like wind, solar, small hydro, biogas co-generation and biomass, which accounts for 9% of total installed generation capacity. The 11th Five Year Plan targets 14,000 MW of grid interactive and distributed renewable power generation installed capacity by 2012. This envisions a 10% contribution of renewable power generation capacity by 2012”.
There will be an enormous potential for exploring various renewable resources as quoted the figure in his book: India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium by Dr. Abdul Kalam with Y S Rajan.
energy vision 2020 :
In the coming years, India needs to adopt clean energy technology to have quality, uninterrupted power supply as its demand increases almost by 4-fold. It is most essential; to take long term policy initiatives as well as modernization to promote clean energy.
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam quoted that “No nation can aspire to be modern and developed without the availability of quality power for all. No modern machinery can run without uninterrupted and quality power systems. The whole magic wand of Indian information technology will be at naught if there is no electric power. Imagine New York or London or Tokyo having just one day without power or a week of interrupted power supply. It just cannot happen. If it did, it could bring down the government. When we look at the power situation in India, “depressing” or “gloomy” appear to be mild words to describe it. Hundreds of thousands of precious human hours are lost because of lack of quality electric power.” India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium