A Study on Energy Consumption Pattern in Developing Areas of Western Himalayan State
Lalit Kumar1 , Rajeev Kumar Aggarwal1 * and Parminder Kaur Baweja1
1
Department of Environmental Science,
Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry,
Nauni (Solan),
173230
HP
India
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.3.20
A study was carried out on energy consumption and carbon emission in growth oriented Dharmpur block of Solan district of Himachal Pradesh. The energy consumption pattern revealed that fuelwood consumption contributed highest (80.43%) proportion of total energy mix followed by electricity (11.55%), kerosene (2.87%), dung cake (2.79%), LPG (2.31%) and diesel (0.08%). The daily energy consumption pattern in kg of coal equivalent for fuelwood, electricity, kerosene, dung cake, LPG and diesel was worked to be as 10.09, 1.45, 0.36, 0.35, 0.29 and 0.01, respectively. The per capita annual energy consumption of electricity was estimated to be 160 kWh, kerosene (1.29 liters), dung cake (0.07 tonnes) and fuelwood (0.76 tonnes). Annual CO2 emission from households in Dharmpur block was estimated as 86,603 tonnes out of which 74,275 tonnes (80.64%) was emitted from the fuelwood consumption only. The annual per capita energy consumption from all sources for Dharmpur block was estimated to be 12.5 tonnes of coal equivalent. The per capita CO2 emission from different energy sources in Dharmpur block was 1.1 tonnes.
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Kumar L, Aggarwal R. K, Baweja P. K. A Study on Energy Consumption Pattern in Developing Areas of Western Himalayan State. Curr World Environ 2015;10(3) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.10.3.20
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