As Director – Programmes at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), Shalu ensures strategic discipline across all programme teams to stay the course on their annual and multi-year strategies. She has a decade-long experience of working on energy transition issues ranging from energy access and distributed RE to role of technology and market design in power sector reforms. She and her team closely work with energy departments and key stakeholders across multiple Indian states on strategies for clean energy transition, with a focus on grid integration of renewable energy, utility digitalisation, and demand-side management.

She specialises in empirical research methods, including primary data collection through surveys and sensors. She’s led perception survey with ~2,700 smart meter users from six Indian states (2022), the India Residential Energy Survey (IRES) with ~15,000 households spanning 21 Indian states (2020), and smart meter deployment and analysis of high-frequency data.

She has published 35+ peer-reviewed publications and journal papers/book chapters. Regularly writes in leading national dailies, speaks on different platforms, and assists/advises senior government officials. Shalu has published in leading international journals like Nature Energy and Energy, contributed book chapters for publishers such as Springer and Cambridge University Press and regularly authors opinion pieces for leading national dailies in India.

Shalu is a Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellow 2024 and a Chevening Fellow 2016. She has an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and Environment from University College London and a BTech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Roorkee.