Energy Policy Research (Seychelles) : final report
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1990
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Energy Planning section, Department of Industry, Victoria, SC
Abstract
Seychelles is a small island state which covers approximately 95%
of its energy needs from imports of petroleum derivatives, thus
spending a considerable amount of foreign exchange for meeting
the energy demand on a national level. Financial, economic and
environmental constraints do not allow an expansion of these
imports to a much higher level. It is therefore important for
the Government to regulate energy supply and demand by an
appropriate energy policy.
The Energy Policy Research project was initiated with the overall
objective to enable a Government body to elaborate on such an
energy policy, based on a comprehensive energy data base.
Such a data base has been set up for Seychelles, and it contains
results of supply and demand surveys, data on different energy
technologies, as well as relevant economic data. Having this
data at hand, a Government is in a position to analyze impacts
of various policy measures on the energy flows, a process which
is already being undertaken in Seychelles using computerized
energy planning tools.
The results of the surveys clearly indicate that policy measures
have to be directed towards energy conservation and not so much
towards the introduction of new and renewable energy sources, as
the majority of them is economically not viable. An exception
is solar water heating.
As one of the more important results of the project the Energy
Planning unit was able to publish an 'Energy Yearbook 1988',
which is also part of this report.
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ENERGY POLICY, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, SEYCHELLES, ISLANDS, ENERGY TECHNOLOGY, SOLAR ENERGY, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, PUBLIC SERVICES, QUESTIONNAIRES