London Area, United Kingdom
I work at the intersection of energy, economics and public policy. Over the past 8 years, have worked closely with business leaders, policy experts and decision makers in the power sector on areas related to energy transition, wholesale market design, distribution sector transformation, renewable generation, portfolio strategy, corporate restructuring, corporate power procurement etc. I also have experience developing games/simulations based on economic principles for hands-on learning and training.
- Assisted the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on national level wholesale market reforms focusing on market design, economic dispatch modelling & market simulations, drafting regulatory documents and reviewing international markets. The reforms were aimed at facilitating large-scale RE grid integration and optimizing system costs among other things. - Co-led RAP’s capacity building activities in India on wholesale power markets for various industry stakeholders including multiple state regulators through Forum of Regulators (FOR). Expanded the scope and improved the design of RAP’s tool – ‘India Electricity Simulation’. The tool’s underlying production cost model simulates wholesale market transactions in various market designs and structures. It is an immersive platform which builds upon user’s decision making and inputs. - Working on developing additional business models and regulatory frameworks for India’s power distribution sector along with review of international experience of various retail tariff designs, market structures as well as new modes of transactions.
Project - Meeting the Renewable Revolution: A Roadmap for Electricity Market Design in India Investigators - Dr. Sushanta Chatterjee (Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, India) and Mr. Ranjit Bharvirkar (Regulatory Assistance Project) Roles and Responsibilities: 1) Literature review of Indian as well as US and European Wholesale Power Market Design 2) Provide assistance in collecting, cleaning and organizing voluminous data pertaining to the Electricity Market in India using R Programming and Excel. 3) Quantitative analysis of primary and secondary data collected in R and Excel. The project was supported by the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The study laid foundation for the wholesale market design reforms to come in India.
Data Collection and Analysis for CIRC's biennial project "Competition and Regulation in India" Led a team of six members who were responsible for the following: 1) Making a data base of the concerned stakeholders in the target seven states 2) Collection of data through online and offline surveys 3) Analysis of the data 4) Survey Report
Worked with the Project Management Team