Dr Gopal K Sarangi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department (HoD) of the Department of Policy and Management Studies (DoPMS), at TERI SAS with more than 24 years of research and consulting experience. His primary domain of research covers energy market and regulation, green finance and related financing issues such as climate financing, sustainable development financing, carbon market, industrial decarbonisation and ESG issues, intersection of new energy technologies, fuels and resources with public policies, social systems and processes, energy and climate nexus, governance and institutional analysis of energy transition questions, geopolitics of energy transition, energy modelling and forecasting, and impact assessment of energy and environmental interventions. He has contributed as PI, Co-PI, Advisor and team member to several collaborative projects funded by DFID, EPSRC, World Bank, British Academy, UNDP, Prosper.Net, ICIMOD, Norwegian Research Council (NRC) and Government of India (GoI) and various state governments in India. He has contributed to the policy making as a nominated member by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) of GoI in the selection of villages for their performance in renewable energy domain and in their carbon neutrality. To his credit, he has been chosen as an Independent Director of UGVCL, Gujarat – one of the most efficient and pioneer distribution utilities of the state. 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 and platforms. He has been taken honorary positions in various universities within India and outside. He has visited Freie University, Berlin, Germany, as a DAAD Research Fellow, visited DMU, UK as a Project Research Fellow, and visited Dundee University, Scotland as a Project Research Fellow, and visited UTS, Sydney, Australia as a Key Technology Partnership (KTP) research fellow. He has also been taken honorary positions as a Visiting Professor at Nalanda University, Rajgiri, Bihar, Visiting Professor at Just Transition Research Centre (JTRC), IIT, Kanpur, Honorary researcher at CPR, NISER, Odisha and honorary researcher at DEFT, Odisha. He teaches courses on Energy Economics, Energy and Sustainable Development, Carbon Market and Energy, Economics of Renewable Energy, Development Economics, Managerial Economics and Environmental Economics.

Publications:

• "Climate sensitivity of electricity consumption and peak demand in India: case of heterogenous climate zones", Climate Change Economics , 14 (3) 2023 (with D. Jain and S. Das)
• "Modelling extreme daily peak electricity demand across Indian states using non-stationary generalised pareto distribution models", Environmental Modelling & Assessment, 28, 2023 (with D. Jain and S. Das)
• "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)