Shruti Deorah

Shruti Deorah

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Bio

Shruti Deorah conducts research on regulatory & policy issues in grid integration of renewable energy plants in India, along with transition to electric mobility. Her focus areas include regulatory aspects of transition to renewables, storage and its impact on capacity planning, and market design for the evolving sector. Additionally, she works on policy issues concerning electrification of transport in India, including impact on power grid and health co-benefits. She has a joint appointment at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley where she designs and coordinates the curriculum for executive education programs on Energy & Environment for foreign government officials.
 

Prior to this, Shruti worked as Advisor- Renewable Energy (RE) at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), India's apex power sector regulator. At CERC, she was focused on laying down the regulatory framework for large scale integration of solar, wind and other renewable sources based power plants into the national grid. Her areas of work included tariff setting for RE plants, Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market & mechanism, technical frameworks for grid integration & balancing of infirm RE power on the grid, and working with State Regulators on all RE related issues. 

In 2014, Shruti was at the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy as a visiting scholar in their Independent Leaders Scholar Program, and was affiliated with this group. Her research focused on renewable energy & energy-efficiency policy, specifically for addressing the challenge of rural electrification in India. Her prior work at the Observer Research Foundation in India focused on improving energy access through solar mini-grids. Previously, she led energy-efficient Lighting and Transport programs for the Clinton Climate Initiative in India. She holds a B.Tech, M.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay.

Publications

2023

Pathways to Atmanirbhar Bharat: Harnessing India's Renewable Edge for Cost-Effective Energy Independence by 2047

Authors: Abhyankar, Nikit; Priyanka Mohanty; Shruti M. Deorah; Nihan Karali; Umed Paliwal; Jessica Kersey, and Amol A. Phadke.
03/2023

2022

Pathways for Electrification of South Asia’s Transportation Sector

Authors: Deorah, Shruti M.; Aditya Khandekar; Deepak Rajagopal, and Nikit Abhyankar.
03/2022

Feasibility and Impact of Biomass and Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems

Authors: Khandekar, Aditya; Shruti M. Deorah, and Nikit Abhyankar.
03/2022

Electricity demand in South Asia – data gaps and pathways for research and modeling

Authors: Karali, Nihan; Nikit Abhyankar, and Shruti M. Deorah.
02/2022

2021

Assessing the Key Requirements for 450 GW of Renewable Capacity in India by 2030

Authors: Deorah, Shruti M.; Nikit Abhyankar; Siddharth Arora; Kanika Chawla, and Amol A. Phadke.
12/2021

Policy and Regulatory Recommendations to Support a Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power Sector

Authors: Kahrl, Fredrich; Shruti M. Deorah; Lakshmi Alagappan; Paul M. Sotkiewicz, and Nikit Abhyankar.
12/2021

Least-Cost Pathway for India’s Power System Investments through 2030

Authors: Abhyankar, Nikit; Shruti M. Deorah, and Amol A. Phadke.
12/2021

2020

Estimating the Cost of Grid-Scale Lithium-Ion Battery Storage in India

Authors: Deorah, Shruti M.; Nikit Abhyankar; Siddharth Arora; Ashwin Gambhir, and Amol A. Phadke.
04/2020

2018

The Case for All New City Buses in India to be Electric

Authors: Khandekar, Aditya; Deepak Rajagopal; Nikit Abhyankar; Shruti M. Deorah, and Amol A. Phadke.
12/2018