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Policy Scenario, it is assumed that these standards and codes are introduced<br />

and more strictly enforced than in the Reference Scenario.<br />

The Ministry of New and Renewable <strong>Energy</strong> (MNRE) has three main<br />

programmes to cut biomass consumption in rural areas: the Integrated Rural<br />

<strong>Energy</strong> Programme, the National Biogas and Manure Management<br />

Programme and the National Programme on Improved Chulhas. 8 This last<br />

programme currently covers 29% of the estimated potential of 120 million<br />

stoves. 9 The Biogas Programme promotes household biogas units for<br />

recycling cattle dung. The biogas digesters have the added benefit of<br />

improving sanitation in villages. In the Alternative Policy Scenario, the<br />

targeted potential for biogas plants and improved cookstoves is assumed to be<br />

met.<br />

The MNRE is also promoting the development and application of renewable<br />

energy technologies, such as solar water heating systems for homes and<br />

commercial buildings and solar air heating/steam generating systems for<br />

community cooking and industrial applications. The overall solar potential in<br />

India is estimated to be 140 million m 2 of collector area, of which about<br />

1.9 million m 2 has been installed.<br />

Summary of Results<br />

In the Alternative Policy Scenario, energy demand in the residential and<br />

services sectors is 12% lower in 2030 than in the Reference Scenario. Most of<br />

the savings come from biomass and electricity, the largest savings in percentage<br />

terms come from electricity and coal, at 15% each. The residential and services<br />

sectors account for 34% of the saving in total final energy consumption in<br />

2030 and for 74% of the total savings in electricity. In the Alternative Policy<br />

Scenario, the implementation of the National <strong>Energy</strong> Labelling Programme,<br />

achieving substitution of the inefficient incandescent lamps by 60%-more<br />

efficient CFLs and greater penetration of efficient refrigerators, fans and airconditioning<br />

systems, results in savings in electricity consumption of 17% in<br />

the residential sector and 20% in the services sector.<br />

Fuel-switching away from biomass and the installation of improved<br />

cookstoves and biogas digesters in rural areas lowers biomass demand by<br />

almost 21 Mtoe, or 14%, compared with the Reference Scenario (Figure<br />

18.10). Fossil-energy use in these sectors is reduced by 13% in 2030 as a<br />

result of more efficient buildings and the more widespread adoption of solar<br />

energy for water heating in buildings.<br />

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8. The National Programme on Improved Chulhas (a type of Indian cookstove) has been<br />

discontinued at the federal level and chulhas are currently subsidised at the state level or through<br />

individual targeted projects.<br />

9. Numbers obtained from the MNRE website, http://mnes.nic.in, last accessed July <strong>2007</strong>.<br />

Chapter 18 - Alternative Policy Scenario Projections 553

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