Ruchi Gupta

Ruchi Gupta joined the renewable energy and storage team at the University of Geneva, Switzerland in August 2017. She focuses on different flexibility options to support the integration of renewable and low carbon technologies. Currently, she is working on a study to assess the geographic potential of power-to-gas (P2G) as a flexibility option for Switzerland, aiming at identifying hotspots considering renewable generation (hydro and PV), hydrogen demand, CO2 availability, gas and heat networks as well as economic and regulatory boundary conditions.

Prior to joining UNIGE, Ms. Gupta was a Young Professional (Energy) at NITI Aayog, Government of India in New Delhi, India where she conducted qualitative policy research and played a significant role in strategy formulation in the field of energy, environment and climate change. In particular, she contributed to India’s National Energy Policy and Three Year Action Agenda on Energy and made significant contributions to the work on decentralized renewable energy for rural electrification, electricity markets, renewable energy roadmap, energy efficiency, sustainable development goals and G20 Energy Policy. She was the first selected fellow to visit US DoE and PNNL under the US-India Partnership Alliance for Clean Energy to learn from US best practices on energy data management (EDM) and prepare recommendations for the Government of India for establishing an integrated EDM cell in India.

Before serving NITI Aayog, Ms. Gupta worked as a “Programme Executive- Sustainability”, in the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) for five years. She was instrumental in setting up the Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Development at IICA. In her role as a consultant and trainer, she has trained around 200 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) & Sustainability officers from different corporates on how to design and develop holistic CSR projects in the area of environmental sustainability keeping in mind the national & global sustainability agenda.