Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy

Dr. Srinivasan Sunderasan possesses diverse experience in project management, fund and portfolio management and leadership in multicultural environments. He is currently an economist with Verdurous Solutions, a consultancy and investment advisory organisation focusing on renewable energy and other ‘cleantech’ ventures (http://www.verdurous.in). He has authored about 20 research papers in areas covering renewable energy markets, policy, financing, microfinance, externality valuation, etc. He has also authored an application-oriented book on project finance under the title Long Term Investments: Project Planning and Appraisal. His biography has been included in three consecutive editions of the Marquis Who’s Who in the World, New Jersey, for the years 2008 - 2010. The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK, has featured his profile among the Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, 2009 / 2010.   Dr. Sunderasan has been awarded a doctoral degree in Business Economics by the University of Vienna, Austria, for his work on Mainstreaming Renewable Energy. He has also undertaken graduate course work in Economics at the University of Vienna. His first degree in Civil Engineering was followed by a masters degree in Business Administration from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He has pursued graduate course work in architecture and has acquired a graduate qualification in Environmental Law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

1. Infant Industry and Incentive Structures.- 2. Renewable Energy Technology: Market Development, Subsidy Policy and the Enlargement of Choice.- 3. Economic Rents and the Power of Scarcity.- 4. Revealed Preferences and the Power of Substitutes.- 5. Mapping Development Policy on to the Life Cycle.- 6. Accounting for the Environmental Externality.- 7. Microfinance: Taking RE to the 'Former Poor'.- 8. Epilogue: Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy.