Developing expertise, capacity and collaboration
As part of our vision of Global South-led just energy transitions, our members run and attend different working groups.
These groups are focused on information-sharing, cooperation, and engagement and designed to develop expertise and capacity across different elements of our vision. They are also part of mobilizing local researchers in a supportive international network, connecting across countries to form a a global ecosystem of open tools and data.
Energy Transition Policy and Economics - Americas Group
This working group brings together economists, policy researchers, and practitioners in Latin America to explore the macroeconomic, fiscal, and social dimensions of the energy transition. Our goal is to bridge the gap between technical energy modelling and practical policy design. Through dialogue-based, interactive sessions, the group aims to translate economic research into actionable guidance for decision-makers in the Global South, focusing on climate mitigation, just transition, and regional climate resilience.
The Energy Transition Policy and Economics - Americas Group is run by Brigitte Castañeda.
The RESET India Group
This working group is an interdisciplinary research collective focused on India's energy transition. It brings together economists, energy-systems modelers, and policy researchers from the Indian Statistical Institute, IISER Bhopal, IIT Roorkee, LSE, the University of Chicago, the University of British Columbia, Duke University, CEEW, CSEP, WRI India, and NITI Aayog. We combine empirical and econometric methods with energy-system modeling, applied theory, and policy evaluation, working across the power sector, renewables, coal and industrial transition, transport electrification, and net-zero pathways. It is committed to informing policy through evidence and to building collaboration across institutions on shared data and methodological challenges.
The group is running several themes in its ongoing work:
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- Power sector, electricity markets, and renewables integration. Several projects evaluate how India's power markets are evolving as renewables scale, including auction-data evaluations of the 2014–2022 solar subsidy regime and a change in auction format (Kanishka Kacker and Priyanka Dutta, ISI), Renewable Consumption Obligations and the green electricity market (Anu K. Jose, IISER Bhopal), and whether installed renewable capacity is actually displacing coal (Anshuman Tiwari, U. Chicago). Complementary work studies how coal-quality slippage affects plant performance (Kanishka Kacker, ISI; Shefali Khanna, LSE) and develops an open-source power-sector planning tool that integrates climate parameters for India and other developing countries (Varun Jyothiprakash, WRI India, with IISc).
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- Coal and industrial transition; carbon policy. This stream looks at cost-effective options for repurposing legacy coal assets in India and comparator countries (Sandeep Pai, Duke University), and at early-stage responses by energy-intensive Indian firms to the Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (Anu K. Jose, IISER Bhopal).
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- Transport electrification. Survey-based work in Delhi estimates willingness-to-pay for EVs in shared and public transit and identifies what drives EV valuation, with an international comparison in view (Kanishka Kacker, ISI).
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- Net-zero pathways and economy-wide modeling. State-level energy-system analyses inform decarbonization pathways across multiple Indian states (Vaibhav Chaturvedi, CEEW), and national scenarios link India's growth ambitions with its net-zero objectives (Anjali Jain, NITI Aayog).
The RESET India Group is run by Kanishka Kacker.
MCET Asia
This working group is for RESET members based in Asia and focuses on modeling the energy transition with a strong focus on electricity capacity. The MCET Asia working group is run by Suzi Kerr.
MCET Americas
This working group is for RESET members based in the Americas and focuses on modeling the energy transition with a strong focus on electricity capacity. The MCET Americas working group is run by Rodrigo Bórquez.