CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS X
LIST OF FIGURES XII
LIST OF TABLES XV
ABSTRACT 1
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 4
1.1 Background 4
1.2 Aim 5
1.3 Research questions 5
1.3.1 Primary question 5
1.3.2 Secondary question 6
1.4 Objectives 6
1.5 Overview of the Research Design 7
1.6 Scope 8
1.7 Limitations 9
CHAPTER 2 : LITERATURE REVIEW 11
2.1 Residential electricity consumption scenario in India 12
2.1.1 End-use based consumption in India 14
2.1.2 End-use based consumption scenario in Karnataka 15
2.1.3 Appliance penetration in Indian households 17
2.1.4 AAEC (kWh) variation with respect to the Built up area(Sqm) of the households 17
2.2 EPI AND BENCHMARKS 18
2.2.1 REC Benchmark by the Australian government 22
2.2.2 Benchmark EPI for Residential buildings for GRIHA rating 23
2.3 The Base load and Seasonal load 23
2.4 Socio-demographic factors of the household and energy consumption 25
2.5 Summary 26
CHAPTER 3 : THE CASE OF COASTAL KARNATAKA 28
3.1 Climatic analysis of Coastal Karnataka 28
3.1.1 Temperature and relative humidity (RH) 30
3.1.2 Solar radiation 31
3.2 Residential Electricity consumption scenario in Karnataka 31
3.3 MESCOM distribution company 34
3.4 Daily Load distribution 35
3.5 Energy policies enforced in Karnataka
3.6 Summary
CHAPTER 4 : DATA COLLECTION 38
4.1 Critical data for the study 39
4.2 Household Electricity Survey Questionnaire (HESQ) tool 39
4.3 Data collection Methodology 40
4.4 Case study Sampling 43
4.5 Sample character 43
4.6 Socio economic characteristics of the sample 44
CHAPTER 5: PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS 48
5.1 Study averages as per survey analysis 49 Resident
5.2 Urban and Rural households daily electricity consumption pattern 51
5.3 Per –capita consumption per household pattern 52
5.4 Built- up area and consumption pattern 53
5.5 Number of bedrooms and consumption pattern 54
5.6 Appliance and lighting fixture penetration pattern in the surveyed households 56
5.7. Base load and seasonal load pattern 61
5.8 EPI as a performance indicator 65
5.9 End –use based electricity consumption pattern 65
5.10 Construction year versus AAEC pattern 66
5.11 Energy consumption slabs 67
5.12 Energy efficiency measures used across the samples 68
5.13 Pearson R test 69
CHAPTER 6: MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL ANALYSIS 72
CHAPTER 7: DISCUSSIONS 79
FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS 79
APPENDIX -A 82
APPENDIX- B 92
APPENDIX- C 93
APPENDIX –D 95
REFERENCES 101