Energy Demand and Planning: Report Number 31 (Watt Committee Report, No 31)

Energy planning is integral to industrial and business management. This book explores the options for policy decisions that are sure to impact the next century. These decisions will affect reduced fossil fuel use, energy efficiency, carbon taxes, development of renewable energy sources and modern transport systems. Book cover......Page 1 Half-Title......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Contributors......Page 8 Preface......Page 11 Part One Energy now and the next fifty years......Page 15 Introduction: Energy policy-to be or not to be?......Page 17 1.Development of energy modelling......Page 19 2.Changing patterns of human need......Page 24 3.Population levels and their implications for energy demand......Page 31 4.Recent developments in the prediction of global warming*......Page 45 5.Social attitudes and their place in energy policies......Page 62 6.Sustainable energy development......Page 67 7.The chemical industry-future energy requirements of a large user......Page 85 8.Energy markets and the role of governments......Page 93 9.Electricity-the common energy currency......Page 100 10.Future energy supply and demand-steps towards their reconciliation......Page 111 Postscript......Page 116 PART TWO Background and Discussion......Page 120 Social changes and energy markets......Page 122 Seminar I-Energy resources and scenarios for the next half century......Page 125 Seminar II-The impact of possible changes in living and working patterns on energy markets and demands......Page 135 Seminar III-Energy policies......Page 144 Consultative Conference-Discussion report......Page 148 Index......Page 153

Energy, Demand and Planning brings together a group of distinguished authors from many relevant disciplines, under the auspices of the Watt Committee on Energy. The authors were asked to consider the effects of policy decisions that might be taken now on the planning of the world energy industries in the coming half-century or so. Discussion is held on such key topics as technological change, sustainable development, global warming and the effects of population growth, all of which require policy decisions at national and international levels, affecting the daily lives of people in both advanced and developing countries.

This book emphasises the belief of the authors that energy planning is integral to industrial and business management, and explores the options for policy decisions that might be taken now with the next half-century in mind. Our Conference entitled 'Energy Now and the Next Fifty Years' came at a very appropriate time, but at a critical time in the evolution of the Watt Committee on Energy.