ME 360

Assignment 1
Vidushi Vinod, 160100082

1.The installed generation capacity in India is 371.9 GW. Percentage Distribution is given below:

Source % contribution

Coal 53.7

Gas 6.7

Oil 0.1

Nuclear 1.8

Wind 10.2

Hydro 13.6

Solar 9.5

Others 4.4

Source: wikipedia

2.Find the installed generation capacity in the world (GW) and relative percentages of each generation
type.

The installed generation capacity of the world at 2017 was 26* 10 GW Distribution:

Source % contribution

Coal 38

Gas 23

Oil 3

Nuclear 10
 Wind 4

Hydro 16

Solar 2

Others 2

Source: wikipedia

3.Find relation between per capita Energy consumption and per capita GDP.
Graph for the world.

We can see a direct correlation between energy use and GDP per capita. The more the GDP per capita, the
more the power consumption.
 Energy consumption per capita ∝GDP per capita

i) Top three countries for installed capacity for nuclear power:

1. United States(97.15GW)
2. France (61.37GW)
3. China(46.52GW)

ii) Top three countries for installed capacity for Wind energy:
1. China (236 GW)
2. United States(192 GW)
3. Germany(105.466 GW)

iii) Top three countries for installed capacity for hydropower:

1. China(311GW)
2. USA(102GW)
3. Brazil(89GW)

5.
(i) Top three countries with reserves of Coal in the world (and the corresponding percentage)
A. USA(24%)
B. Russia(15.2%)
C. Australia(14%)

(ii)Top three for Oil reserves:

A. Venezuela
B. Saudi Arabia
C. Canada

(iii) Top three countries for Uranium reserves:

A. Australia
B. Kazakhstan
C. Canada and Russia
6.
ii)Price of crude oil (in USD) as a function of time (for the WORLD).

X-axis represents time and Y-axis represents cost of 1barrel crude oil