Director

Rahul Walawalkar

Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Markets

Customized Energy Solutions

Dr. Rahul Walawalkar leads the Emerging Technologies & Markets practice for Customized Energy Solutions with focus on energy storage, renewables, demand response and smart grid technologies as well as international markets. He is an internationally acclaimed expert in areas covering energy management, electricity markets, emerging technologies and new product development. Rahul has been involved in evaluating economics of emerging technologies since 2004. His research and consulting activities have covered complete range of demand response and energy storage technologies including CAES, Pumped Hydro, NAS, flow batteries, Lithium Ion batteries, thermal storage and flywheels.  Rahul currently serves on the Board of Directors of Electricity Storage Association. He is also a steering committee member for the international Energy Storage Challenge. He has served as expert on evaluation panels for US DOE’s various smart grid projects and is involved in creation of industry standards as part of IEEE and NIST working groups. Rahul holds a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds Masters in Energy Management from New York Institute of Technology and undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Walchand College of Engineering.  He is recipient of numerous awards including Computer Society of India’s Young IT Professional Award (2000 & 2001), Demonstration of Energy Efficiency Developments scholarship from American Public Power Association (2002, 2003 & 2005) and is also recognized as one of the Legends in Energy by Association of Energy Engineers.