Ranjit Bharvirkar is a Principal at the Regulatory Assistance Project where he directs RAP’s India program. He has more than 17 years of experience in electricity policy analysis and technical advice and assistance to state- and national-level policymakers in the U.S. and India on various topics including but not limited to renewable energy, wholesale energy markets, distributed generation, energy efficiency, demand response, dynamic pricing, program evaluation, and others. In September 2018, the Oxford University Press published a volume titled “Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States” that was co-edited by Mr. Bharvirkar. He was a key contributor to India’s Renewable Electricity Roadmap Initiative undertaken by the Government of India in 2014. As a senior energy consultant with Itron’s Consulting and Analysis group, he was involved in energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed generation analysis. He also conducted several workshops on energy efficiency for staff from Indian regulatory commissions and utilities. Mr. Bharvirkar previously researched demand response and energy efficiency programs in the U.S. as part of the Electricity Markets and Policy group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). His projects included evaluation of real-time pricing and demand response programs in New York. Mr. Bharvirkar also worked at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, D.C., where he was part of a team that developed a partial general equilibrium model of the U.S. electricity sector, and analyzed the impacts of SOX, NOX, and CO2 cap-and-trade programs on electricity prices, investment and retirement of generation capacity, and distribution of benefits and costs. As a graduate student researcher at North Carolina State University, Mr. Bharvirkar developed statistical techniques to quantify variability and uncertainty in emissions inventories. Mr. Bharvirkar has co-authored several journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, discussion papers, and a book chapter. He holds a bachelor’s in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, a master’s in environmental engineering from North Carolina State University, and a master’s in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
