Energy use in the rural areas of India: Setting up a rural energy data base

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 14, Issue 5-6, 1998, Pages 489-503

  Sinha, Chandra Shekhar ^a   Sinha, Shirish ^a   Joshi, Veena ^b  

^a THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Swiss Agy for Devmt and Coop   (India)

Author keywords

Agro climatic zone; Biofuel estimation; Domestic energy consumption; India; Rural energy database; Rural energy planning

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; BIOMASS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; WOOD FUELS;

BIOFUELS; DOMESTIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; RURAL ENERGY PLANNING;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

DATABASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY USE; RURAL ENERGY;

INDIA;

EID: 0032076736     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(97)10059-9     Document Type: Article

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