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Energy conservation

Auteur	Adv. Board Government of India
Datum	augustus 1986
Classificatie	4.03.0.00/06 (INDIA - ALGEMEEN)
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INTRODUCTION

Common sense demands that a country which is dogged by serious energy 
shortages must, even as it increases the supply of energy by all the means available 
to it, also ensure that it makes the most efficient and economic use of whatever 
energy it consumes.

The case for energy conservation does not require to be laboured. It rests on the 
solid fact that conservation measures are cost-effective, require investments which 
are much smaller than what would be needed to produce additional energy 
equivalent to the energy they save and, above all, have very short gestation 
periods, unlike energy supply projects which take years to plan and implement. 
Energy conservation programmes, therefore, deserve to be given, while planning 
our future strategy, as much importance as programmes for the augmentation of 
energy supplies.

The history of energy conservation in India dates back to 1976, when the Petroleum 
Conservation Research Association-which has since amply justified the hopes placed 
on it-was set up. However, no similar initiatives were taken in respect of the other 
sectors of commercial energy, namely power and coal. In 1981, an Inter-Ministerial 
Working Group was set up under the chairmanship of Shri D. V. Kapur (the then 
Secretary, Heavy Industry) to suggest means for the conservation of commercial 
energy in the transport, industry and agricultural sectors. The report of this Committee 
was submitted in 1983 and contains a number of valuable suggestions, not all of 
which, however, have been followed up quickly enough. The Advisory Board on 
Energy deliberated on the subject of energy conservation at considerable length at its 
eighth meeting earlier this year and there has been a certain revival of interest in it. 
The present publication is intended to deepen and sustain this interest and seeks to 
present, in a convenient and readable form, some selected material which gives an 
idea of the enormous scope that exists for further efforts in this field.

A word about the format of this volume. Sections I and VI reproduce the 
deliberations of the Advisory Board on Energy on issues relating to the conservation 
of commercial energy and firewood respectively. Section II contains a summary of 
the recommendations of the Kapur Committee, while Section Ill contains ten 
indigenous success stories in conservation, based on the initiatives of certain energy-
intensive industrial units whose example needs to be followed on as wide a scale as 
possible. Section IV sets out the way in which Japan, France and the United Kingdom 
have approached this subject. Section V contains a list of the various fiscal and 
financial incentives for conservation which are available to various categories of 
manufacturers and users of energy conservation equipment in India. Section VII 
contains a selection of news and views from the press.

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