The National Energy Policy (NEP)

The Government’s think tank, NITI Aayog has released new draft National Energy Policy (NEP). The NEP focuses on four major objectives: Affordable energy access for all; reducing dependence on fossil-fuel imports; becoming a low carbon economy through growth in renewable energy; and sustaining economic growth.

• The policy will replace the Integrated Energy Policy(NEP) framed by the erstwhile Planning Commission in 2008.
• It aims to chart the way forward to meet the Government’s recent bold announcements in the energy domain:
  • All the Census villages are planned to be electrified by 2018.
  • Universal electrification is to be achievedwith 24x7 electricity by 2022.
  • The Ministry of Petroleum is ....