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India's <strong>Energy</strong> Sector<br />

India, the slumbering giant, is waking up, with a growing thirst for energy. The<br />

average annual volumetric increase in India's primary energy demand over the<br />

past five years has been 15 Mtoe. In 2004, it was nearly 30 Mtoe – almost<br />

equal to the entire energy market in Greece. Total primary energy demand in<br />

India was 537 Mtoe in 2005, roughly equivalent to demand in Japan. Power<br />

generation was 699 TWh, not much higher than that of Germany. The rate of<br />

growth of energy demand in India in 1990-2000 was a brisk 3.7% per year,<br />

slipping to 3.2% from 2000 to 2005. Yet energy demand per capita, at 0.5 toe<br />

in 2005, is extremely low (Table 15.1): it is 0.8 toe per capita in Indonesia,<br />

1.3 in China and 4.7 in the OECD. One in six people in the world live in<br />

India, but they account for only 5% of world energy demand. Appliance and<br />

car ownership levels are much lower in India than in China and electricity<br />

demand per capita, 639 kWh in 2005, is a third of Brazil's. 1<br />

Table 15.1: Key <strong>Energy</strong> Indicators for India<br />

1980 1990 2000 2005<br />

Total primary energy demand (Mtoe) 209 320 459 537<br />

Oil demand (mb/d) 0.7 1.2 2.3 2.6<br />

Coal demand (Mtce) 75 152 235 297<br />

Gas demand (bcm) 1.4 11.9 25.4 34.8<br />

Biomass and waste (Mtoe) 116 133 149 158<br />

Electricity output (TWh) 119 289 562 699<br />

TPES/GDP (index, 2005=100) 163 142 120 100<br />

Total primary energy demand per capita (toe) 0.30 0.38 0.45 0.49<br />

CO 2<br />

emissions per capita (tonne) 0.43 0.69 0.95 1.05<br />

Oil imports (mb/d) 0.5 0.6 1.6 1.8<br />

Electricity demand per capita (kWh) 174 341 553 639<br />

With GDP per capita rising by about 5.4% per year in 2000-2005 and<br />

expected to grow by 6.4% in 2005-2010, the potential for energy demand<br />

growth is enormous. But there are challenges. India has vast coal resources,<br />

but most of them are of low quality. Indigenous oil and gas reserves are in<br />

short supply. <strong>Energy</strong> imports are growing. Renewable energy holds promise,<br />

but, with the exception of traditional biomass and hydropower, its use is very<br />

limited today.<br />

India's economy relies heavily on coal, which accounted for 39% of total<br />

primary energy demand in 2005. India is the world's third-largest coal user,<br />

1. See Chapter 16 for more information.<br />

444 <strong>World</strong> <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Outlook</strong> <strong>2007</strong> - INDIA’S ENERGY PROSPECTS

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