Is sustainable energy security of India increasing or decreasing?

This paper presents an indicator-based approach to highlight the emerging trends in energy security and sustainability for India over the past four decades. It selects four dimensions of Sustainable Energy Security (SES),namely Availability, Acceptability, Affordability and Efficiency and their corresponding indicators to represent SES. Thereafter, using quantitative data, the study establishes that certain indicators show increasing SES, while certain others show decreasing SES for India. Interpretation of these indicators leads to the conclusion that at the dimensional level ‘Availability’ and ‘Efficiency’ indicate increasing SES, while ‘Acceptability’ and ‘Affordability’ dimensions indicate decreasing SES. This study, therefore, gives valuable insights into the multi-dimensional aspects of SES and the emerging trends in SES for India.