• Dr. Debaleena Chatterjee

In this paper, a granger causality approach is used to examine the causality between economic growth and energy consumption in five north eastern states of India. The study attempts to reveal the implications on how the nexus can affect long term sustainability of the states. The direction of causality can throw light on the possible conservation policies that can be implemented (Jin et. al.2009).The study has taken energy consumption indicators of both traditional and renewable energy consumption from Energy Statistics, 2018. We have examined multiple situations to find out this direction of causation, with respect to certain types of energy consumption. The study deploys sixdifferent categories of energy consumption to address this issue. The findings indicate assorted evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth. In some instances, energy consumption leads to economic growth, lending support tosupply-leading hypothesis of energy-growth nexus (Caraini et. al. 2015). On other cases, it is the economic growth that leads to energy consumption,lending support to demand-following hypothesis of energy-growth nexus. There are also cases, where energy consumption and economic growth are mutually interdependent, the situation where both are self-reinforcing and offer support to feedback hypothesis of energy-growth nexus (Pradhan, 2010).Conventional sources or non-renewable energy like coal, petrol, lignite and natural gas are not only causing adverse effect on the environment but are also limited for use as an engine of growth(Abbas and Choudhury, 2013).

Energy Consumption, Sustainability, causality

"Is Reducing Energy Consumption a Solution for Sustainable Economic Growth? ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.533-540, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904981.pdf

"Is Reducing Energy Consumption a Solution for Sustainable Economic Growth? ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp533-540, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904981.pdf