Brief Description of the Developing Country Energy Project.

摘要

The objective of the project is to assess the role of new or adapted technologies in addressing the energy problems of developing countries. This objective is pursued through activities ranging from historical economic analyses of the role of energy in development to assessments of individual technologies carried out in support of research and development planning. The project,started in 1975,carries a particular emphasis on the energy problems and technologies appropriate to rural development. A firm tenet of the activity is,however,that the role of individual energy technologies can be understood only through an integrated view of the entire energy system and the way in which that system meshes with the economic and cultural structure of a society. The entire group of LDCs are being examined to develop a better understanding of the role of energy in development and to project the energy requirements of those countries under alternative growth patterns. Some representative countries were used as the basis for generic energy technology assessment. Seven countries were chosen as an initial set for analysis based on their representing a range of levels of development,climate,resource base,etc. These countries were India and Kenya (in the low,less than $200per capita,income group) Ghana and South Korea (in the intermediate income group),and Chile,Brazil and Greece (in the upper,greater than $550per capita,income group). In constructing energy supply-demand models for these countries,emphasis was placed on incorporating data on noncommercial energy use wherever such information was available. (ERA citation 02:013794)