500 MILLION PEOPLE WITH NO ACCESS TO POWER HOW INDIA CAN TACKLE ITS SEVERE POWER SHORTAGE DURING THE NEXT DECADES?

摘要

India's population, now around 1.1 billion, is growing fast, and is expected to surpass that of China soon after 2020 - making it the largest in the world. Its economy is also expanding, growing at around 10 percent annually from 2000 to 2008, and despite a current dip due to the global crisis, the pace is expected to be over 9 percent for most of the next decade.All of this bodes well for the electricity sector; consumption, currently at some 600TWh annually, is set to double by 2020 - by when it will have surpassed Russian levels. To supply this extra electricity, total generating capacity should jump by 90 GW, to 241GW, with an increased emphasis on nuclear, clean coal and renewables, including solar and small-hydro.