Barriers and Drivers in Energy Efficiency in India: A SAP-LAP Analysis.

Recent global developments towards climate change have ignited a lot of interest in field of energy efficiency and conservation in India. The government is also developing and implementing many innovative programmes as a policy measure to promote energy efficiency and energy conservation in different sectors of Indian economy. In this study, we provide the brief review the energy saving potential in India. We focus our thought to analyze the energy policy of India using SAP-LAP analysis and identify the barriers and drivers in the field of energy efficiency and conservation promotion. We further review the different energy efficiency and conservation programmes and briefly highlight the performance of each programme. We also emphasize the limitations, challenges and issues in promoting and implementing those programmes. This paper aims to ignite interest among policymakers, researchers, energy service companies, appliance manufacturers and other pertinent stakeholders. The learnings gained from this study may be used by the policymakers in designing and implementing effective energy policy measure to remove the obstacles in the way of investment in energy efficient technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]