With energy consumption set to become one of the biggest issues in the
daily lives of householders around the world, this book could not be
more relevant - despite the fact that it focuses on India. Pachauri
adopts a socio-economic approach to analyzing the energy system and
energy consumption in India from a household perspective. The work also
incorporates two crucial aspects often ignored: namely, the importance
of non-commercial sources of energy, and diversity in the patterns of
energy usage.