AN ENERGY - ECONOMY APPROACH FOR. GENERATION EXPANSION PLANNING FOR ORISSA

Abstract

Energy is the vital intermediate input for economic development of nation and is universally required in the pro-duction of commodities and services or for their spatial trans-formation. Thus energy has been called the fuel of economic progress. Hence strong correlation exists between the energy use and national income. In the Indian context, electrical energy is the main form of commercial energy and its availability sets the effec-. tive constraint on the achievable rate of growth of the econo-my. Hence to achieve the target of growth of economic acti-vity of the nation, the power supply industry should be able to.,fulfill its primary objective of supplying power of appro-priate quality and reliability to the growing demands of people...