Prospects for the power sector in nine developing countries
Abstract
Based on information drawn primarily from official planning documents issued by national governments and/or utilities, the authors examined the outlook for the power sector in the year 2000 in nine countries: China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina and Mexico. They found that the implicit rates of average annual growth of installed electric power capacity between 1991 and 2001 range from a low of 3.3% per year in Argentina to a high of 13.2% per year in Indonesia. In absolute terms, China and India account for the vast majority of the growth. The plans call for a shift in the generating mix towards coal in six of the countries, and continued strong reliance on coal in China and India. The use of natural gas is expected to increase substantially in a number of the countries. The historic movement away from oil continues, although some countries are maintaining dual-fuel capabilities. Plans call for considerable growth of nuclear power in South Korea and China and modest increases in India and Taiwan. The feasibility of the official plans varies among the countries. Lack of public capital is leading towards greater reliance on private sector participation in power projects in manymore »
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 10167025
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-33741
ON: DE93016712; TRN: 93:015529
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- Resource Type:
- Technical Report
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Apr 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; POWER DEMAND; INFORMATION; PLANNING; CHINA; INDIA; INDONESIA; THAILAND; PHILIPPINES; TAIWAN; ARGENTINA; MEXICO; CAPACITY; COAL; NATURAL GAS; NUCLEAR POWER; CAPITAL; CONSTRAINTS; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; 296000; 292000; 290201; ELECTRIC POWER; SUPPLY, DEMAND, AND FORECASTING; ECONOMICS
Citation Formats
Meyers, S, Goldman, N, Martin, N, and Friedmann, R. Prospects for the power sector in nine developing countries. United States: N. p., 1993.
Web. doi:10.2172/10167025.
Meyers, S, Goldman, N, Martin, N, & Friedmann, R. Prospects for the power sector in nine developing countries. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10167025
Meyers, S, Goldman, N, Martin, N, and Friedmann, R. 1993.
"Prospects for the power sector in nine developing countries". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10167025. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10167025.
@article{osti_10167025,
title = {Prospects for the power sector in nine developing countries},
author = {Meyers, S and Goldman, N and Martin, N and Friedmann, R},
abstractNote = {Based on information drawn primarily from official planning documents issued by national governments and/or utilities, the authors examined the outlook for the power sector in the year 2000 in nine countries: China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Argentina and Mexico. They found that the implicit rates of average annual growth of installed electric power capacity between 1991 and 2001 range from a low of 3.3% per year in Argentina to a high of 13.2% per year in Indonesia. In absolute terms, China and India account for the vast majority of the growth. The plans call for a shift in the generating mix towards coal in six of the countries, and continued strong reliance on coal in China and India. The use of natural gas is expected to increase substantially in a number of the countries. The historic movement away from oil continues, although some countries are maintaining dual-fuel capabilities. Plans call for considerable growth of nuclear power in South Korea and China and modest increases in India and Taiwan. The feasibility of the official plans varies among the countries. Lack of public capital is leading towards greater reliance on private sector participation in power projects in many of the countries. Environmental issues are becoming a more significant constraint than in the past, particularly in the case of large-scale hydropower projects. The financial and environmental constraints are leading to a rising interest in methods of improving the efficiency of electricity supply and end use. The scale of such activities is growing in most of the study countries.},
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year = {Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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