Trends of Production and Consumption of Energy as Per Conventional Sources in India

Abstract

India is the second most populous country in the world, with population 1210 million by census 2011. This causes substantial burden on the environment and on energy resources. Fossil fuels are the major sources of conventional energy. At present, many countries, including India are overly dependent on fossil fuels to meet their requirement for power. The known reserves of fossil fuels have depleted to a large extent due to its continued use and if it continues, there is risk of complete exhaustion of these sources of energy. The present paper is an attempt to study the pattern of production and consumption of chief conventional sources of energy in India from the year 2005-06 to 2013-14. Data for the purpose is taken from Energy Statistics-2015 published by the Central Statistics Office, Ministry of statistics and programme implementation. It is evident from the analysis of data that the production of Energy by primary Sources has increased by 3.28 % from the year 2005 to 2014. At the same time the Consumption of conventional energy in the country has risen from 15146 to 24071 Peta joules in this period showing an increase of 5.28%. This clearly reflects the demand–supply imbalance of energy and emphases on energy conservation.