An Energy Analysis of Household Consumption: Changing Patterns of Direct and Indirect Use in India

ISBN-13: 9789400796898 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 211 str.

Shonali Pachauri

Opis

The book presents a novel socio-economic approach to analysing the - ergy system and energy consumption in India from a household persp- tive. In doing so, it views households as the ultimate end-consumers and estimates and analyses the direct and indirect energy requirements of household consumption, both at an aggregate national level as well as at a disaggregate household level. In addition, the work incorporates two c- cial aspects often ignored by many energy studies that are characteristic of most developing countries, namely the importance of non-commercial sources of biomass energy in the energy systems of these countries, and the enormous diversity and inequity in the patterns of energy access and use across households with different lifestyles and levels of well being. This work was initiated as part of my Ph.D. thesis at the Centre for - ergy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Te- nology in Z urich (ETHZ ). The thesis was completed at the end of 2002.

Spis treści

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND AND SIGNIFICANCE 1.2 CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION FOR THE BOOK 1.3 AIMS, OBJECTIVES AND APPROACH 1.4 CURRENT APPROACHES AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES TO ENERGY STUDIES 1.5 ORGANISATION OF THE BOOK CHAPTER 2: AN OVERVIEW OF ENERGY USE IN INDIA 2.1 OVERVIEW OF BROAD SOCIO-ECONOMIC TRENDS IN INDIA 2.2 A SHORT DIGRESSION ON ENERGY TERMINOLOGY 2.3 TRENDS IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN INDIA 2.3.1 Primary Energy 2.3.2 Final Energy 2.4 ENERGY CONSUMPTION: SOME INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS 2.5 ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN THE RESIDENTIAL SECTOR 2.5.1 Trends in direct energy consumption by the household sector 2.5.2 Direct energy services demanded by the household sector 2.5.2.1 Cooking 2.5.2.2 Lighting 2.5.2.3 Transport 2.5.2.4 Others 2.6 SOME ISSUES RELATED TO THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE DIRECT ENERGY USE PATTERNS OF HOUSEHOLDS 2.7 POLICY, REGULATION, AND PRICING IN THE ENERGY SECTOR IN INDIA CHAPTER 3: ENERGY ANALYSIS AND ENERGY INTENSITIES FOR INDIA 3.1 INTRODUCTION TO ENERGY ANALYSIS 3.2 ENERGY ANALYSIS IN PRACTICE 3.3 INPUT-OUTPUT ENERGY ANALYSIS 3.4 THEORY OF INPUT-OUTPUT ENERGY ANALYSIS 3.5 DATA REQUIREMENTS OF INPUT-OUTPUT ENERGY ANALYSIS FOR INDIA 3.6 METHODOLOGY FOR CALCULATING SECTORAL ENERGY INTENSITIES 3.6.1 Treatment of exports and imports 3.6.2 Treatment of capital goods and investment 3.7 SECTORAL ENERGY INTENSITIES 3.7.1 Most energy-intensive sectors 3.7.2 Upstream and downstream sectors of the production chain 3.7.3 Contribution of direct energy intensity to the total 3.7.4 Energy intensity of total production 3.7.5 Trends in energy intensities 3.7.6 Uncertainties in energy intensities 3.8 COMPARISON WITH ENERGY INTENSITIES FROM OTHER STUDIES 3.9 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 4: AGGREGATE TOTAL AND AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD ENERGY REQUIREMENTS 4.1 INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 4.2 METHODS AND DATA 4.3 RESULTS 4.3.1 General trends in household expenditures 4.3.2 Total household energy requirements 4.3.3 Direct energy requirements 4.3.4 Indirect energy requirements 4.3.5 Energy intensities of household consumption 4.4 DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS 4.5 COMPARISON WITH OTHER STUDIES 4.6 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS CHAPTER 5: DISAGGREGATE HOUSEHOLD ENERGY REQUIREMENTS 5.1 INTRODUCTION 5.2 METHODS, DATA SOURCES, AND DATA PREPARATION 5.2.1 An introduction to National Sample Survey data 5.2.2 Reliability of NSS estimates of household consumption expenditure 5.2.3 Data modifications 5.2.4 Method for matching expenditure items from the household survey with productive sector energy intensities 5.2.5 A comparison of private final consumption expenditure estimates from the CSO and the NSS data 5.3 VARIATIONS IN HOUSEHOLD ENERGY REQUIREMENTS ACROSS HOUSEHOLDS 5.3.1 All-India average per capita total household energy requirements 5.3.2 Comparison with results from the input-output model 5.3.3 Factors influencing total household energy requirements 5.3.3.1 Economic variables 5.3.3.2 Geographic variables 5.3.3.3 Demographic variables 5.3.3.4 Dwelling attributes 5.3.3.5 Infrastructural variables 5.3.4 Direct energy use 5.3.5 Indirect energy requirements of food consumption 5.4 A MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION MODEL 5.4.1 Data sources and preparation 5.4.2 Empirical results 5.4.3 Outlook for future energy requirements 5.4 DIS

O autorze

The book takes a socio-economic approach to analyzing the energy system and energy consumption in India from a household perspective. In addition, the work incorporates two crucial aspects often ignored by many traditional modeling approaches that are characteristic of most developing countries, namely the importance of non-commercial sources of energy, mostly biofuels, and the very large diversity in the patterns of energy use in households with widely diverging lifestyles and well-being. Adopting a household perspective allows for analyzing how energy use and consumption patterns are linked with the quality of life of individual households or persons and provides a novel view of the energy system and development in India. The work makes a first step in identifying key driving forces and some important trends in technical, economic, demographic, and lifestyle changes that have an impact on the patterns and use of energy within the country over the last couple of decades.