{"id":5608,"date":"2020-01-14T13:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5608"},"modified":"2020-01-14T13:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T07:57:18","slug":"state-energy-efficiency-index-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/state-energy-efficiency-index-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"State Energy Efficiency Index 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Economy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Power-snip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5609\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Power-snip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"648\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Haryana, Karnataka and Kerala have topped the State Energy Efficiency Index 2019.<br \/>\n\u2022 This index tracks the progress of Energy Efficiency (EE) initiatives in 36 states and union territories based on 97 significant indicators.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About the index:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The State Energy Efficiency Index categorises states as \u2018Front Runner\u2019, \u2018Achiever\u2019, \u2018Contender\u2019 and \u2018Aspirant\u2019 based on their efforts and achievements towards energy efficiency implementation.<\/li>\n<li>This index, developed by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in association with the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), showed that a majority of the initiatives taken by states are on the Policies and Regulations front.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key highlights:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top performing states in the State EE Index 2019 \u2013 Haryana, Kerala and Karnataka \u2013 are in the \u2018Achiever\u2019 category.<br \/>\n\u2022 Since there isn\u2019t any \u2018front runner\u2019 state, it can be inferred that a lot more can be done at the state level to realise energy savings from energy efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>For a rational comparison, the States or Union Territories are grouped into four groups based on the aggregated Total Primary Energy Supply (TPES) required to meet the state\u2019s actual energy demand (electricity, coal, oil, gas, among others) across sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Karnataka, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Puducherry led their groups. Manipur, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Rajasthan performed the worst in each of their groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Economy Why in news? Haryana, Karnataka and Kerala have topped the State Energy Efficiency Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42,43],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-indian-economy","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5608\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}