ABSTRACT
Over the last couple of decades, most discussions on energy policy have tended to advance energy security as an important consideration. In India, the Planning Commission’s Integrated Energy Policy defi nes energy security as the ability to ‘supply lifeline energy to all our citizens irrespective of their ability to pay for it as well as meet their effective demand for safe and convenient energy to satisfy their various needs at competitive prices, at all times and with a prescribed confi - dence level considering shocks and disruptions that can be reasonably expected’ (Planning Commission 2006). Based on this defi nition, it argues in favour of rapid expansions in all forms of electricity generation, including nuclear power.
