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.