Debajit Palit

Dr. Debajit Palit has more than 25 years of experience working in the domain of renewable energy, clean energy access, rural electrification, distributed generation, micro-grids and energy transition. He is featured in the Top 2% World's Scientists ranking by Stanford University for the last 3 years in a row. Presently, Dr Palit is a Professor of Energy at the NTPC School of Business, Noida. He was earlier with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), a global research and policy think tank, as a Director & Senior Fellow, and led the Rural Energy & Livelihoods Division in TERI for almost a decade. Dr Palit is also a visiting faculty at the Anant Fellowship for Climate Action Programme, Vice President (Honorary) of the Indian Association for Energy Economics, Editorial Board Member of the Environmental Research Communications and a Member of the LVDC Distribution Systems Sectional Committee of the Bureau of Indian Standards. He is also the Chair of the Rural Energy Supply theme at the forthcoming Solar World Congress 2023, scheduled to be held in New Delhi in October-November. Dr Palit has written widely on renewable energy, energy access, rural electrification and gender-energy issues and has published 3 books and around 145 research papers in reputed scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, and magazines. Dr Palit holds a Master’s degree in Physics, Post Graduate Diploma in Non-conventional Energy Technology and Ph.D. in Energy Policy.