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Chapter 7: Economic Planning and Energy Supply
7.2. Energy supply planning
In the previous section, we pointed out that the starting point of the economic planning process under a communist planned economy is the energy plan. Let us now look back at the principles of a sustainable planned economy described in Chapter 4.
A sustainable planned economy already includes environmental assessment, and therefore must be combined with not only a "material balance" aimed at adjusting the quantity of production, but also a qualitative "environmental balance" that includes the selection of energy resources that are compatible with environmental sustainability and the regulation of production methods and product structure.
In particular, an energy plan is necessary as a prerequisite for this "environmental balance." In that case, there is a technical problem of whether to separate the energy plan from the main economic plan and incorporate it independently, or to incorporate it as a prerequisite part of the economic plan.
The integrated type seems appropriate in order to emphasize that the energy plan is not an external regulation of the economic plan, but an internal premise for the entire economic plan; however, in any case, such an energy plan is a guideline that is applied to production companies with the same normative power as the economic plan itself, and is not simply a programmatic set out of the basic principles of energy policy.
Furthermore, because energy supply is closely related to the system of global joint management of energy sources, it must also be linked to energy resource management plans at the global level, and a "single-nation energy plan" cannot exist here.
In terms of content, the plan is based on the conservation of non-renewable energy sources such as oil and the active use of renewable energy, with environmentally sustainable total quantity restrictions on electricity, which accounts for the largest proportion of all secondary energy sources in advanced industrial society, being an important pillar of the energy plan.
Incidentally, with regard to power generation, nuclear power has been proven to be unparalleled in its environmental destruction in the event of an accident, so it cannot be evaluated as a qualitatively safe and sustainable energy source, and is therefore excluded from the sustainable energy plan.
The body that formulates such energy plans is also not a government agency, but the Economic Planning Conference, which is made up of production companies, but the original energy plan is formulated by the Energy Planning Council, a subordinate organ of the council made up of energy-related business entities such as oil refining and electricity.
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