Electrical and Technology

Energy Planning Energy is essential for living and vital for development. Affordable energy directly contributes to reducing poverty, increasing productivity and improving quality of life. Likewise lack of access to reliable energy is a severe impediment to sustainable social development and economic growth. For any developing country like ours, the strategy for energy development is an integral part of the overall economic strategy. Efficient use of resources and long term sustainability remains the main objective of economic planning. Sustainability would take into account not only available natural resources and issues related to ecological balance but also established delivery mechanisms, the technological constraints that are prevalent in the system and immediate compulsion to meet the priority needs of the economy, economic equity and self-reliance. In Asia, Japan and China are the largest consumers of energy. In Japan, the energy policy objectives can be summarized as the...