for example, india's national integrated energy policy of 2005 noted current elasticity at 0.80, while planning for 7-8% gdp growth. it expected to be able to reduce this to 0.75 from 2011 and to 0.67 from 2021-22. by 2007, india's ambassador was able to inform the united nations security council that its gdp was growing by 8%, with only 3.7% growth in its total primary energy consumption, suggesting it had effectively de-linked energy consumption from economic growth.