This policy sets the overall framework for the improved performance of the energy sector. The objectives are to provide energy for sustainable economic growth, ensure optimum development of all the indigenous energy sources (oil and gas, coal, hydropower), ensure sustainable operation of the energy utilities, ensure rational use of total energy sources, ensure environmentally sound energy development programs, encourage public and private sector participation in the development and management of the energy sector, bring entire country under electrification by the year 2020, ensure reliable supply of energy to the people at reasonable and affordable price, and develop a regional energy market for rational exchange of commercial energy to ensure energy security. The report provides a series of recommended energy policies on the following areas: non-renewable energy, petroleum, marginal gas field development, renewable and rural energy, power, rural electrification, and demand estimation and planning.
