Fueling India’s Mobility Transition: A Life Cycle Perspective on Passenger Road Transport Options

Fellow- Transportation and Infrastructure Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. Yagyavalk…

Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. Yagyavalk leads “The Role of Clean Energy Policies: Trends in India’s Transport Sector” project, aimed at estimating India’s transport energy demand and potential impact on crude oil supply chain.

His expertise covers energy policy, energy economics, transport modeling, the impact analysis of transport policies, emerging economies energy transition, renewable energy, and cost-benefit analysis of the transport and electricity sector. He has authored and contributed to numerous research papers and studies related to the transportation and electricity sector.

 

Expertise

• Policy Analysis
• Transport Demand Modeling
• Sustainable Transport
• Clean Energy Transition
• Renewable Energy
• Climate Change

Research Lead- Transportation and Infrastructure Michael is a Lead at KAPSARC working on the life cycle sustainability assessment of transport and energy systems. His focus…

Michael is a Lead at KAPSARC working on the life cycle sustainability assessment of transport and energy systems. His focus is on conventional and alternative powertrain systems, with a special interest in low-carbon fuels and energy pathways. He previously served as a Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on several Horizon 2020 transport research projects. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences from VUB.

Expertise

• Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment
• Low-Carbon Energy/Fuels
• Alternative Powertrains
• Just Transition
• Circularity Principles

Principal Fellow- Utilities & Renewables Jitendra Roychoudhury is a Principal Fellow in the Utilities and Renewables program. His ongoing research portfolio at KAPSARC covers various…

Jitendra Roychoudhury is a Principal Fellow in the Utilities and Renewables program. His ongoing research portfolio at KAPSARC covers various global and regional economic, energy, and geopolitical issues, policy developments, and the impact of such policies on international energy markets. Before joining KAPSARC, Jitendra was Director and Chief Consultant at HDR Salva, India. He has worked extensively as a commodity consultant within India’s energy and infrastructure sectors, advising on developing commodity market entry strategies. He has authored and contributed to numerous consulting studies on coal and coal policy in India, Indonesia, and China. Jitendra has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pune, India, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Welingkar’s Institute of Management, Mumbai.

Expertise

• Energy policy
• Energy markets
• Electricity markets
• Commodity markets
• Cross-border electricity trading
• Geopolitics of energy and commodity trading
• Coal and alternative solid fuels
• Hydrogen
• Critical minerals
• Supply and value chains
• Geothermal energy