The most significant input for any economic activity – may it be production or consumption is energy. Its sources varied in importance from time to time and from place to place. Still without access to one or other forms of energy economic life comes to a standstill. Today we cannot imagine a world without coal, electricity or petroleum products. They have become so inevitable to mankind that modern technology of production leans heavily on these energy sources. This situation has also led to an ever increasing competition and search for cost effective and eco friendly energy resources. At the same time there is also the need for conservation of the available supply as most energy resources are nonrenewable in nature. Energy conservation can be real if only we make efforts to assess energy demand, reduce transmission and distribution losses and cut down energy consumption. This study is an attempt to report the observations of a study on domestic consumption pattern of energy conducted in three districts of Kerala -Ernakulam, Palakkad and Wayanad.

[1]Research Scholar, Research Centre. Post Graduate & Research Department of Economics (M.G University), M.A College, Kothamangalam