Abstract—Energy sources have been crucial for development, but also form the backbone of what is today one of the greatest global challenges. Implementing policies to address simultaneously the three issues of the “energy trilemma” — energy security, energy equity (energy poverty) and environmental sustainability (climate change) — is one of the major challenges for policy makers. Access to and management of countries' natural resources and energy assets have played a central role in national and international politics. This paper examines the influence of the diversity of India's energy matrix on the balance of these three energy issues between 1990-2014. An econometric model confirms that diversity is statistically significant for all other variables. It also shows interesting results when analyzing its effect on each variable individually and on all of them simultaneously.
Index Terms—Climate change, energy governance, energy poverty, energy security, energy sources, energy trilemma, sustainability, India.
B. del-Río is with the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Lehendakari Agirre, 83, E48015 Bilbao, Spain and the UFR Droit, Economie, Gestion,Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Avenue du Doyen Poplawski, 64016 Pau, France (e-mail: rosabelen.delrio@ehu.eus).
A. Fernández-Sainz is with the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Lehendakari Agirre, 83, E48015 Bilbao, Spain (e-mail: ana.fernandez@ehu.eus).
I. Martinez de Alegria is with the Faculty of Engineering, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alameda Urquijo s/n., E48013 - Bilbao, Spain (e-mail: itziar.martinezdealegria@ehu.eus).
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Cite:Belén del-Río, Ana Fernández-Sainz, and Itziar Martinez de Alegria, "Diversity or Concentration of Sources in the Management of the Energy Trilemma? The Case of India," Journal of Clean Energy Technologies vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 32-35, 2019.
