Nuvodita is a Senior Associate at RMI India. She works on electricity sector decarbonisation and energy systems resilience in India.
Prior to RMI India, she was based at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu working on climate change adaptation research and interventions across India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. She has worked as a researcher in the Western Himalayan region to understand the political economy of water security.
Master of Public Administration, Environmental Science and Policy, Columbia University, New York
MA, Sustainable Development Practice, TERI University, New Delhi
Bachelor of Economics (Hons), Delhi University
Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellowship in 2019
New Delhi, India
Resilience is a system’s ability to plan and prepare for, absorb, recover from, and adapt to adverse events over time. To that extent, resilience is a complementary attribute to risk management since it uses strategies not just to mitigate, but also to adapt and learn. Climate risks with their long-term,…
Climate change-induced extreme weather events are increasing, and energy systems are feeling the impact. The recent snowstorm in Texas is clear testament to that. The unexpected, prolonged storm caused an unplanned demand surge as people’s heating demand increased substantially in response. When coupled with a power market that values independence…
Originally published on The Climate Centre for Cities (C-Cube) website. If there’s one word to describe India’s goal of achieving 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy installation by 2022, it is “ambitious.” Of this, 40 GW need to come from rooftop solar (RTS) systems, which are installed on building…
In June 2020, RMI India co-hosted its first virtual convening on the Discom Transformation Platform along with the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and NITI Aayog. The event brought together 16 leading civil society organizations (CSOs) to identify new ways of collaborating and supporting distribution companies (DISCOMs), following the recent…
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