STUDY OF THE INTRINSICAL ENERGETIC SUSTAINABILITY OF NATIONAL STRATEGIC PLANS FOR THE ELECTRIC SECTOR (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The objective of the work is to analyze comprehensively the national energy plans in evidence of the electric sector considering the complete costs in such a way that they demonstrate the address for the sustainable development. For this, a multicriteria analysis is developed incorporating the representative dimensions of development and socioeconomic activity as support for a complete energy assessment. It assumes the stratification of selected countries in groups, according to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per inhabitant for a complete evaluation within the dimensions of development. The methodological tool of the Integrated Planning of Energy Resources - PIR is applied, defined through the environmental, political, social and technical-economic dimensions, inquiring this way the conditions of the country for the applicability of a planning based on the sustainable development in these four dimensions. The results indicate that, individually, the countries have an official energy planning sometimes within the specific indicators of real sustainable development at the time of the study and this difference points to a potential applicability of a planning that seeks the satisfaction of needs and well-being in synergy with the other dimensions. However, it appears that in the preferential plans of almost all countries there is an aggressive prioritization of the technical-economic aspect. When countries are segregated into groups by GDP per capita, this difference becomes more evident. Despite this, the results indicate that the countries have real conditions to conduct a PIR, at the minimum complete costs in the dimensions considered, in actions consistent with sustainable development.