Satish Kumar

About

Satish Kumar serves as the President and Executive Director of the Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy (AEEE), India’s leading ecosystem enabling, energy efficiency organisation. Prior to AEEE, he was the Energy Efficiency Ambassador and led the Energy Management business at Schneider Electric India and has worked as a Scientist at US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the USA. He serves as a senior energy efficiency advisor/technical expert to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, NITI Aayog, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, and Department of Science and Technology (DST). He has led or has been closely involved with the development and/or administration of the following initiatives: India Cooling Action Plan and National Cooling Action Plan Framework, Global Cooling Prize, Solar Decathlon India, State Energy Efficiency Index and International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol. He has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon and a B. Arch from IIT Roorkee and is a LEED Fellow. He has authored more than 100 book chapters, journal, conference papers and industry reports.

Employment

• Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy Executive Chairman, Executive Director and President
  2015 - Present
• Schneider Electric India Pvt. Ltd. Energy Efficiency Ambassador & Vice President
  2011 - 2015
• International Resources Group Chief of Party
  2006 - 2010
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientist
  1996 - 2006

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D.
  1992 - 1998
• Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Bachelor
  1986 - 1991

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (21)

• A new scenario set for informing pathways to India’s next Nationally Determined Contribution and 2070 net-zero target: Structural reforms, LiFE, and Sectoral Pathways
  Energy and Climate Change 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.egycc.2025.100192
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• The transforming thermal performance of residential buildings in the lower Himalayan cold climatic region
  Building and Environment 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.113686
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• Commercial buildings energy data framework for India: an exploratory study
  Energy Efficiency 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s12053-021-09971-y
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• Evaluation of thermally activated furniture on thermal comfort and energy consumption: An experimental study
  Energy and Buildings 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110154
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• Estimating India’s commercial building stock to address the energy data challenge
  Building Research & Information 2019 DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2018.1515304
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• Approach, learnings and way forward for the state energy efficiency index in India
  Eceee Summer Study Proceedings 2019
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• Correlating room air conditioner energy consumption with thermostat setting to encourage occupant behavioural change towards enhanced energy efficiency and thermal comfort
  Eceee Summer Study Proceedings 2019
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• Decoding India's residential building stock characteristics to enable effective energy efficiency policies and programs
  Eceee Summer Study Proceedings 2019
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• Impact of thermally activated furniture system on the occupant thermal comfort - A study using thermoregulation model and computational fluid dynamics
  Building Simulation Conference Proceedings 2019
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• Integrating energy efficiency with renewables and energy storage for a smarter and greener residential solution
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2018 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-8249-8_20
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