Ramachandran Kannan

Biography

Kannan has multidisciplinary education across energy science, energy engineering, environmental science and project management. He is an international energy expert with 15 years of experience from Europe and Asia. His research interests are climate change mitigation policy analysis, energy management, life cycle costing, and environmental life cycle assessment.
Since 2009 Kannan is a scientist at the PSI’s energy economic group and leads the development of Swiss and EU energy models. Prior to join PSI, Kannan was the core member of the UK energy system modeling team of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) based at King’s College London/Policy studies Institute, London.
Kannan was a team member of the study on the Economics of the Kyoto Protocol: A Cost-Benefit Analysis for Singapore commissioned by the Government of Singapore. Earlier, Kannan was a Research Associate with the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and coordinated a Asian-regional climate change project. Kannan performed comprehensive research on life cycle analysis of power generation technologies. In his early career, he performed feasibility studies for wind farms in India. Kannan began his career as an energy auditor and undertook number of energy audit projects in India. Later he developed a methodology for energy management practices in SME.