Rahul Tongia is a Senior Fellow with CSEP in New Delhi, where his work focuses on technology and policy, especially for sustainable development. He leads the Energy, Natural Resources, and Sustain ability group at CSEP, and is also active in broader issues of technology. Tongia’s works pans the entire energy and electricity, with focuses on supply options including renewable energy (covering finance, grid integration, etc.); smart grids, which use innovative information and communications technology to improve management of the electric utility grid; Issues of access and quality and broader issues of reforms and regulations, including electricity pricing. He is also a non-resident Senior `Fellow at the Bookings Institution, and Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and was the founding Technical Advisor for the Government of India’s Smart Grid Task Force.