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| December 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 28; 29 December 2009 |
| Energy Profile and Political Economy - 29 December 2009 |
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"This period showed a marked acceleration in electrification in general and rural electrification in particular. But it was also the period when the majority of State Electricity Boards stopped metering consumption and/or heavily subsidized tariffs so as to develop "vote banks". The importance of rural electrification and associated subsidies in electoral politics emerges from the fact that most underdeveloped states of India, such as Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, historically have had little access to electricity but have played the role of "kingmakers" at the federal level..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 27; 22 December 2009 |
| Checklist of Things Undone - 22 December 2009 |
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"Having expanded its carbon space, China, in the run up to Copenhagen 2009, had no problems declaring that it would reduce its carbon intensity by 40 per cent by 2020. In its scramble to grab as much carbon space as it could, China had accumulated a huge inventory of some of the most inefficient and carbon intensive manufacturing and generating capacities. As the experience of Germany in Europe has shown China's efforts to reduce its carbon intensity can now almost happen on auto pilot..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 26; 15 December 2009 |
| Climate Change - Copenhagen - Future of Kyoto - 15 December 2009 |
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"The CDM was an embryonic mechanism even four years ago, without any approved baseline methodology or registered projects. Today it expects more them 2.9 billions of CERs until end of 2012 from more than 4300 projects in the pipeline, of which more than 1806 projects are registered and more than 94 are requesting registration. The CDM now moves billions of dollars around the world and is hot topic in the circles of high finance as well as in all media versions..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 25; 08 December 2009 |
| Energy Injustice in India: Hiding Behind Poor - 08 December 2009 |
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"India's low per capita electricity consumption, as also of other developing countries, is being offered as the main reason for this argument. When we consider the fact that for about 40% of such a large population the commercial energy is out of reach even after 6 decades of independence the gravity of the situation becomes crystal clear. If we aim to provide energy security to our growing population in a business-as-usual scenario, the pollution level in our country will be enormous..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 24; 01 December 2009 |
| Climate and the Clash between the Diversely Developed - 01 December 2009 |
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"The assumptions that the size of the country is the key determinant of its climate liability and that individuals are the generalised units of consumption facilitates the assignment of responsibility for carbon emissions not so much on those who produced and continue to produce most of the emissions but on those producing the differential transforming it into a critical mass and therefore conceal the fact that the developed nations are in fact the world?s most 'over-populated' nations..."
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| November 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 23; 24 November 2009 |
| Consensus on Climate Change can't be forced - 24 November 2009 |
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"While these subsidies may distort the overall energy market, they do create their own pressures for economy of use. At the same time, however ham-handedly, they ensure some measure of distributive justice. What they can be faulted for is the extremely inefficient way in which they square things up for the poorest of the poor, and skew fuel choices irrationally. Should the need to impose greater carbon costs on energy be the result of global consensus, these subsidies will certainly have to be raised and unaffordable so..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 22; 17 November 2009 |
| The Irresistible Temptation to Predict Oil Prices - 17 November 2009 |
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"Theories on 'returns to storage' have been proved to be inadequate in predicting future prices. Even the price of oil in 'futures' contracts have been proved to be ineffective predictors of future prices. In practice, even though one may find that futures price and spot prices differ, the difference is usually small. When new information causes spot prices to move, futures prices move in the same direction for every time horizon. This leads to the redundant conclusion that the present price is the best predictor of future price..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 21; 10 November 2009 |
| Future Electricity Supply Options for India - 10 November 2009 |
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"Energy consumption is closely associated with a substantial part of Green House Gas emissions leading to Global Warming. Of various forms of energy electricity alone is responsible for about 42 percent of global CO2 emissions and about 24 percent of all GHG emissions. Though the official stand of the govt. has been that its per capita electricity consumption will not exceed that of the developed countries, the total GHG emissions of India's large population, even if the per capita consumption were to reach only 25 percent of the largest consumer nation, will be huge..."
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| Vol. VI Issue. 20; 03 November 2009 |
| Climate Change: Technology Development and Transfer - 03 November 2009 |
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"Research, development and deployment of technologies for adaptation, including indigenous technologies, would be enhanced by international cooperative actions. Public financing, in particular, could catalyse and enhance activities such as capacity building, needs assessments, and the more rapid deployment and adoption of technologies for mitigation and adaptation especially in those developing countries that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The importance of mobilizing private sector financing should also be noted..."
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| October 2009 |
| Vol. VI Issue. 19; 27 October 2009 |
| Energy and Environmental Issues: India's Energy Model by 2030 - 27 October 2009 |
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"It is first important to understand the particularities of India's energy "system" well. This system is highly heterogeneous and it is necessary to supplement the macroeconomic analysis with a view of the extreme disparities that exist in the distribution and production systems. The macroeconomic principles indeed do not at all reflect the consumption habits of a majority of India?s population. The first characteristic of the Indian system is that it has one of the lowest per capita energy consumption rates in the world..."
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