Abhinav Jindal

Dr. Abhinav Jindal holds a PhD in Economics from Indian Institute of Management Indore with Energy Economics as specialization, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering. He has over 20 years’ experience working with utilities in various domains related to financial, commercial, techno-economic and regulatory aspects of the power sector. He has a sound understanding of pricing, market design, regulation and competition in the sector. He specializes in Electricity markets, Carbon markets, public policy issues associated with public electric utilities and regulatory affairs.

His research interests are at the interface of economics, sustainable finance, energy and environment. His past research areas include investigating large state-owned enterprises (SOEs), assessing firm level financial risks emanating due to transition, estimating financed emissions for banks, devising innovative financial mechanisms for accelerating transition and net zero emissions, examining just energy transitions and partnerships (JET-Ps) and policy design for scale adoption of emerging technologies such as battery storage, green hydrogen and floating solar PV.

Abhinav has co-authored more than 40 publications in international journals, conferences, book chapters and case studies.