ABSTRACT
In the last couple of decades, energy-related policy challenges have grown increasingly prominent in India. On the back of a number of driving factors, (population growth, economic growth and lifestyle changes, among others) energy consumption has risen and its concomitant concerns have grown steadily. The forces that have shaped the development of the Indian state and the Indian economy over the last two decades, and that have led to the recent years of high growth, have also changed the paradigms within which energy policy decisions are taken.
