Title: Energy for sustainable development

Authors: Amulya Kumar N. Reddy

Addresses: Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Abstract: Conventional projection-driven approaches which measure development in terms of energy consumption are failing due to rising economic costs and growing environmental degradation. However, a new paradigm for energy is emerging in which the level of energy services is the true indicator of development. Least-cost planning suggests that conservation may have to be the first option, decentralised renewable sources, the next option, and conventional centralised supplies, energy sources of the last resort. Using this paradigm, Karnataka|s electricity future appears far brighter than it does to the supply-siders. Thus, energy futures are more a matter of choice than of destiny.

Keywords: energy efficiency; electricity generation; new energy paradigm; energy policy; energy services; sustainable development; sustainability; energy futures.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1990.063718

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1990 Vol.2 No.3, pp.143-147

Published online: 19 Jul 2014 *

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