I. Introduction.- Energy Consumption and National Income.- Energy Consumption and National Income in the Development Context.- India — the focus of analysis.- Energy consumption and national income in India.- Energy Supply and Economic Growth.- The link between energy availability and economic growth.- Energy supply and unbalanced growth.- Organization and Contents.- India’s energy resource endowment.- Energy resource development in the five year plans.- Oil and natural gas.- Power.- Biogas and solar energy sources.- Conclusions and policy recommendations.- II. Energy Resource Endowments of India.- Energy Consumption.- Alternative measures of aggregate energy consumption.- Energy consumption patterns.- Coal.- Oil and Natural Gas.- Hydropower.- Nuclear Energy Resources.- Non-Commercial Energy Sources.- Other Energy Sources.- Solar energy.- Alternative energy sources.- Summary.- III. Energy Resource Development in the Five Year Plans.- Electric Power.- First Five Year Plan (1951–1956).- Second Five Year Plan (1956–1961).- Third Five Year Plan (1961–1966).- Fourth Five Year Plan (1969–1974).- Summary of first four plans.- Fifth Five Year Plan (1974–1979).- Coal.- First Five Year Plan.- Second Five Year Plan.- Third Five Year Plan.- Fourth Five Year Plan.- Summary of first four plans.- Fifth Five Year Plan.- Oil and Natural Gas.- Nuclear Energy.- Summary.- IV. Oil and Natural Gas.- Brief History of the Oil Industry in India.- Current Structure of Oil Operations in India.- Production Sharing Contracts.- General provisions.- Tax provisions.- Resource Leasing Policy Evaluation Model.- The exploration phase of resource development.- Uncertainty and the Monte Carlo analysis.- Future resource prices.- Investment cost contingency factor.- Operating cost contingency factor.- Presence or absence of resources.- Amount of reserves.- Model description with Monte Carlo simulation.- Economic, engineering, and geologic relationships.- Monte Carlo results and model outputs.- Model summary.- Analytical Results.- Assumptions and data inputs.- Simulation results.- Summary.- Policy Recommendations.- V. Electric Power.- Recent Power Shortages.- Forecasting Power Demand and Generating Capacity Requirements.- Terms used in describing electric power.- Forecasting relationships.- Forecasting procedures used in India.- Bias in the forecasting procedures.- Forecast modifications.- Power Development in India.- Hydropower.- Coal.- Organization of the coal industry.- Coal consumption in India.- Nuclear power.- Rural Electrification.- Summary.- VI. Biogas and Other Alternative Energy Sources.- Biogas Based Power Generation.- Cost of centralized power generation.- Biogas based power generation.- Comparison of cost estimates.- Biogas Fuel Generation.- Potential Problems with a Biogas Generation Program.- Solar Energy.- VII. Conclusions and Policy Recommendations.- Oil and Natural Gas.- Power Development.- Hydropower.- Coal.- Nuclear.- Alternative rate structures.- Alternative Energy Sources.- Biogas.- Solar energy.- Non-commercial Energy.- Energy and the Environment.- Energy Policy Recommendations.- Selected Bibliography.
