Kanishka Kacker
Assistant Professor, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute

Kanishka is part of the Center for Research on Climate, Food, Energy and Environment. He has a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in the University of Maryland, College Park and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Economics from Delhi University.

Insight

In India, auctions were found to be better than regulator-designed tariffs in determining the procurement price for solar-generated electricity.