The author of the policy brief is the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Water and Energy. The policy area is Energy Sector in Ethiopia. The policy brief has two basic purposes this are: • To commutate the draft Energy policy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia for Stakeholders and • To incorporate the ideas and views of the stakeholders in the final National energy policy. The policy has five major parts. The first part of the policy gives a general background on the energy sector and the status of energy sector in Ethiopia. In its second and third part the policy deal about key issues in the energy sector specifically it gives an idea about the broad energy sector issues and the sector specific issues such as electricity, hydrocarbons, bio energy and other renewable energy. The fourth part of the policy deliberate about sector specific supply and demand side energy and policy objective and instruments. In the supply side it broadly deals about electricity, hydrocarbons, bio energy, other renewable energy and atomic energy. In the supply side the policy focusses on the household sector, transport sector, industrial sector, service sector and agricultural sectors. The final part of the policy is devoted for cross cutting issues. In this part the policy focuses on energy regulatory framework, energy sector governance, building strong energy institution and capacity, integrated energy planning, energy efficiency and conservation, energy pricing, research and development, environmental and social impact, gender, regional and international cooperation. The relationship between energy and economic sectors is intrinsic. As one of the fastest growing developing countries energy demand is increasing through times in Ethiopia. The main reason beyond the need for revision of energy policy are the structural and transformational changes in the country and in global context, to incorporate the new energy development related issues and directions which are not exist in the previous policy, the necessity and opportunity to switch to a new energy sustainable development model and to localize the emerging global energy trends in the national energy policy. The brief recommends the importance of considering atomic energy for power generation beyond agricultural and health sectors, gaining economic opportunity from regional energy interconnection and integration as it is gifted with large hydropower and other renewable energy, changing the traditional development path of energy and fuel wood consumption and more over it indicate the multi sectorial impact of energy sector and the integration of this sector in every sector of the country for sustainable development and growth.
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