Energy needs, uses, and resources in developing countries

Technical Report · Wed Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7036500· OSTI ID:7036500

Palmedo, P. F.; Nathans, R.; Beardsworth, E.; Hale, S. Jr.

The report identifies the energy needs, uses, and resources in the developing countries of the world and examines the energy options available to them for their continued social and economic growth. If traditional patterns of development are to continue, oil consumption in the non-OPEC LDCs will grow steadily to become comparable with current U.S. consumption between 2000 and 2020. Attempts to exploit indigenous hydrocarbon resources even in those LDCs with untapped reserves will be limited by shortages of capital and technical manpower. In the absence of major actions to replace noncommercial fuels or to increase the effectiveness with which they are used, a large fraction of the 3 to 4 billion LDC rural population in the year 2000 will not be able to raise their energy usage above subsistence levels. There is a wide variety of solutions to these problems, many of them emerging directly from the changed economics of energy. For example, most LDCs have not adequately explored and developed their own indigenous resources; in virtually all energy conversion and utilization processes there are opportunities for improvements in efficiency and substitution of renewable energy forms. In virtually all these areas there are opportunities for effective assistance activities.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, N.Y. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-0016
• OSTI ID: 7036500
• Report Number(s): BNL-50784
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AVAILABILITY
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY SOURCE DEVELOPMENT
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SUPPLIES
GLOBAL ASPECTS
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MANPOWER
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
RESERVES
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