CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Pareek, Mridul |
|---|---|
| Title | Data is the New Fuel: Challenges to Energy Data Management in India |
| Summary | Energy data is central to the development of knowledge, new business conducted, and governance enacted around the energy sector. Because of these benefits, existence of well- developed energy data management in a country is very important. Lack of data and data collection mechanisms hamper multifaceted research and planning activities which depend on it. In a rapidly growing country like India, the scarcity and inaccessibility of useful energy data brings more harm and has been criticized by scholars as a bottleneck in the system. Studies, particularly qualitative, on this topic are very limited. Studies around energy data are predominantly about the economics and performance of schemes and are built upon technical parameters. The research aims to address the knowledge gap by investigating the challenges to the existing energy data management system in India. Through reviewing literature and semi- structured interviews with experts in the field, the research points to four dominant themes. These are: the existing collection mechanism itself, present data gaps, socio-political motives of the government and the lack of research on energy data management. The highly decentralized system creates scattered data, making no single agency responsible for coordinating the overall management. One recommendation is for the future research to take these factors, as well as other aspects, when studying energy data management in India. Such a qualitative approach is valuable because it pulls the attention to ‘missing data’, which is often not as neutral in its effects as it seems. |
| Supervisor | LaBelle, Michael |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/pareek_mridul.pdf |
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