Dr Gopal K Sarangi is an economist with more than fifteen years of research and consulting experience. His primary domain of research covers energy market and regulation, intersection of energy technologies, fuels and resources with public policies, social systems and processes, energy and climate nexus, governance and institutional analysis of energy transition questions and impact assessment of energy and environmental interventions. He has a PhD on ‘Sustainability Assessment of India Electricity Sector’, from TERI School of Advanced Studies, New Delhi. He has contributed as PI, Co-PI, and team member to several collaborative projects. To his credit, he has published several peer-reviewed research papers in the domain of his research and has been invited to deliver talks in several national and international forums. He teaches courses on development economics, managerial economics and environmental economics.

Publications:

• "Is the electricity cross-subsidisation policy in India caught between a rock and a hard place? An empirical investigation ”, Energy Policy, 169, 113157, 2022 (with Tarun Mehta)
• "Performance Assessment of State Owned Electricity Distribution Utilities in India”, Economic Analysis and Policy, 71, 2021 (with A.K. Pradhan and F. Taghizadeh-Hesary)
• "Meeting India’s electricity demand in 2030”, Energy and Climate Change, 2, 2021 ( with D. Dasgupta)
• “Household Energy Poverty Index for India: An analysis of inter-state differences” , Energy Policy, 144, 2020, (With S. Gupta and E. Gupta)
• “Indian electricity sector, energy security and sustainability: An empirical assessment”, Energy Policy, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110964 (With A. Mishra, Y. Chang, and F. Taghizadeh-Hesary).
• “Marginalisation of off-grid energy sector in Sri Lanka: What lessons could be learnt?”,  Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2019, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-019-00422-4 (with Pugazenthi, D., A. Mishra, D. Palit, and S.C. Bhattacharyya)
• “Hydro-power development in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region: issues, policies and opportunities”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 107, 446-461, 2019 (with A. Hussain, A., A. Pandit, S. Ishaq, N. Mamnun, B. Ahmad, and M K Jamil)
• “Solar PV mini-grids versus large-scale embedded PV generation: A case study of Uttar Pradesh (India)”, Energy Policy, 128, 36-44, 2019 (With SC Bhattacharyya, D. Palit, V. Srivastava, and P. Sharma)
• “Green finance in India: barriers and solution”, 2019, a Chapter in an edited volume by Jeffrey Sachs, W. T. Woo, N. Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, titled Handbook of Green finance: Energy Security and Sustainable Development, Springer Publication, Singapore
• “Off-grid Energy Development in India: An Approach towards Sustainability”, Economic and Political Weekly, 11(22), 105 – 114, 2016 (with A Mishra, and S. Wadehra)
• “Hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination in India: evaluating the need for precautionary action”, Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law https://doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2019.1693114 (with S. Yadav and MP Ram Mohan)
• “Multi-Level climate governance in India: the role of the states in climate action planning and renewable energies”, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences, Volume 12 (4), 2015 (with K Jorgensen and A Mishra)