New Guest Researcher from India at the Wuppertal Institute

Thanks to the international climate protection scholarship for young climate experts from emerging and developing countries a young researcher took up his office at the Wuppertal Institute. Mitavachan Hiremath is an energy researcher from India who will work on the assessment of energy technologies in the context of sustainability in his annual scholarship in Wuppertal until spring 2019. "To date, the mainstream research in India has focused on only the economic and technical aspects of energy technologies," explains Mitavachan Hiremath. Therefore, during his stay in Germany, he will develop an Integrated Systemic Assessment framework for Indian power system from holistic and practical point of view. The developed framework will be used to evaluate the role of carbon capture and storage (CCS) versus renewable energies in future Indian low carbon scenarios from environmental and economic trade-offs point of view. The results are intended to guide the policy-makers of the country in developing sustainable energy transition pathways for future India.

Before Mitavachan Hiremath came to Germany, he was head of the "Think-&-Do Tank" at SusPoT – Center for Sustainability, Policy & Technology Management in India. He has worked at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change at the Indian Institute of Science, DLR Institute of Networked EnergySystems Oldenburg (formerly NextEnergy) and the University of Oldenburg.
For his work in the field of renewable energy and sustainability he has received various national and international awards, including Mondialogo Engineering Award by UNESCO & Daimler, Returning Expert Award from GIZ/CIM, Clean Energy Lab Fellowship by the Shakti Foundation and Indian School of Business, and International Climate Protection Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation recently.

The scholarship's programme is arranged by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as part of the International Climate Initiative (IKI), funded by the Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU).