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Figure 16.6: Residential Fuel Mix in India in the Reference Scenario<br />

100%<br />

80%<br />

60%<br />

40%<br />

20%<br />

0%<br />

1971 1990 2005 2015 2030<br />

Biomass<br />

Oil<br />

Gas<br />

Electricity<br />

Coal<br />

Box 16.4: Rural and Urban Household <strong>Energy</strong> Demand Projections<br />

The energy demand model for the residential sector in India has been<br />

expanded for this year’s WEO in order to evaluate rural/urban differences.<br />

A new database was created, with the rural/urban breakdown of energy<br />

demand, based on historical data from the National Sample Survey<br />

Organisation (NSSO). As a result of our bottom-up analysis, estimated<br />

aggregate biomass use in the residential sector has been revised downwards.<br />

<strong>Energy</strong> consumption for both rural and urban areas is calculated<br />

econometrically for each fuel as a function of GDP per capita, the<br />

urbanisation rate, the related fuel price and past consumption levels. The<br />

residential sector module covers five end uses by fuel and area: space<br />

heating, water heating, cooking, lighting and appliance use. Fuel demand<br />

is projected per household. Total demand for household consumption is<br />

derived from two components. An “existing stock” component bases energy<br />

consumption on historical shares for each fuel, while a portion of demand<br />

is allocated to “new stock”, where fuel shares are a function both of relative<br />

prices and of existing shares of each fuel.<br />

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Rural households depend on biomass for almost 85% of their cooking needs;<br />

LPG meets 56% of this need in urban households (NSSO, <strong>2007</strong>). Urban<br />

households, which make up less than 30% of India’s population, account for<br />

Chapter 16 – Reference Scenario Demand Projections 477

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