India’s Energy Security

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Part I Understanding India’s energy security concerns......Page 18
1 Contextualizing India’s energy security......Page 20
2 India’s energy challenges and choices......Page 36
3 Energy and poverty in India......Page 46
Part II The global context: Trade and geopolitics......Page 66
4 Trading in the world energy market......Page 68
5 Geopolitics of West Asian and Central Asian oil and gas: Implications for India’s energy security......Page 81
6 Natural gas pipelines: Geopolitics, affordability, security dimensions......Page 104
7 India–China energy cooperation: Commonalities, synergies and complementarities......Page 114
8 Security of maritime energy lifelines: Policy imperatives for India......Page 125
9 Energy security and Indian foreign policy......Page 144
Part III Energy consumption and technology choices......Page 160
10 Lifestyles and energy consumption......Page 162
11 Technology options for India’s energy security: A summary of a modelling exercise......Page 179
12 Incentivizing change in energy choices......Page 196
Part IV Nuclear energy for India – the debate......Page 208
13 Nuclear power growth: An option for sustaining Indian energy requirements......Page 210
14 The many phases of nuclear insecurity......Page 224
15 India’s energy security landscape: Joining the dots and looking ahead......Page 240
Conversion factors......Page 251
Index......Page 254