Energy in india's future ; insights

Since the 1990s, the easing of planning contraints have allowed India to embark on significant paths of growth.
New cliches have begun to replace the old : India will become a second China, and, lagging by 10 or 20 years, will follow the same trajectory, with its development marked more by services and the use of renewable energy. However, these trends will not prevent primary energy demand from exploding. On the contrary, India faces difficults choices on how it increases clean, secure, affordable energy to all citizens.
Many of the choices are the same as found elsewhere, but on a scale matched only by China. A chapter points out the new developemnt in nuclear strategy and the major turning point of India's new safeguard agreements with IAEA, adopted in August 2008.
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