Biography

Name: Tarun Sharma

Contact: tarun.sharma@ucc.ie

Role: Postdoc

Academic Unit: Environment Research Institute

Tarun's research interests focus on development and maintenance of suit of analytical models such as optimization and agent-based models, and their application to answer questions related to energy transition.

Thematic Expertise

Energy Modelling, Optimization, Simulation

Geographical Expertise

India

Relevant Projects

Quantifying the trade-offs amongst competing objectives of Irish energy system (e.g. security vs. cost).

Examining technology opportunities arising from and/or needed for transitioning Irish energy system.

Publications

Sharma, Tarun and Balachandra, P., ‘Benchmarking Sustainability of Indian Electricity system: An Indicator approach’ Applied Energy, Vol. 142, 2015, pp 206-220.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j/apenergy.2014.12.037.