Resumen

PALAZUELOS, Enrique. India en los albores de la transición energética. Prob. Des [online]. 2008, vol.39, n.154, pp.12-35. ISSN 0301-7036.

Since the middle of the 1990s, India's energy system has been registering new symptoms marking the commencement of a transition in which the functioning of energy demand and supply will have to correspond to the requirements of economic development. In the first place, this paper examines the recent energy changes, after which it analyzes their relationship with the process of economic and social transformation the country is experiencing, with the aim of discovering the factors that are determining the beginning of the energy transition. It then shows how the trends derived from those economic and social factors are inducing the increase and growing diversification in energy demand. From that perspective -and in line with the available supplies of energy resources -we analyze why the deepening of the energy transition will lead inexorably to greater external dependence, above all for petroleum, but also for natural gas and uranium.

Palabras llave : energy transition; India; economic development; energy system; energy dependence.