ENERGY ALTERNATIVES: RENEWABLE
ENERGY AND ENERGY CONSERVATION
TECHNOLOGIES
Management Aspects of Energy Planning
The current approach to planning in the energy sector does
not offer any significant role to the district or local level
institutions. Moreover, the coordination needed between the
energy sector and the overall planning and development at
district, taluk and village levels is missing. Although
forestry planning is carried out by the district forest
department, its most significant aspect pertaining to energy
is extremely weak and receives very little attention in the
planning exercises of the sector. The biomass situation in
hilly taluks has, therefore, gradually worsened and has
reached a point of crisis. This deteriorating situation
obviously demands immediate attention in two directions.
1. Strengthening of local institutions for energy
development.
2. Promotion of coordination between institutions concerned
with the energy development and overall planning at
different hierarchical levels on the one hand and
between institutions concerned with research and
development on the other.