• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Gauri Jauhar

S&P Global

Executive Director, Energy Transitions & CleanTech Consulting

Gauri Jauhar is Executive Director, in S&P Global’s Energy Transition and Clean Tech Global Consulting team. She has 24 years experience in energy systems thinking and problem solving with energy stakeholders, using the tools of applied economics and finance with wide regional experience in the United States, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Mumbai, New Delhi. Gauri focuses on: 

o Energy Transitions and policy development

o Energy Pricing and Market Entry Strategies

o Financial Benchmarking and Market Research

o Corporate Benchmarking and ESG In the Energy Transitions

o Board-level engagement to drive change and integration of sustainable fuels in the energy spectrum

Gauri is a champion of Accessibility, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion initiatives. 

She represents S&P Global in various industry bodies such as the US India Hydrogen Task Force, US India Strategic Partnership Forum’s Renewable Energy Task Force. Prior to joining S&P Global, Gauri was Commercial Advisor – Policy & Regulatory Affairs at BP in India. She was the gas policy lead for multi-disciplinary team leading BP’s energy reforms advocacy efforts in India. Prior to joining BP, Gauri was a Senior Consultant at PFC Energy (now part of S&P Global), leading PFC Energy’s Integrated Energy business in India and Singapore across the energy value chain.

Gauri started her career as a Research Associate at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi, analyzing macro-economic policy issues for the Indian economy and her paper with DK Joshi on “India’s Macro-Stabilization Policy in 1990s: A Review and Assessment” was published in the book, “The Indian State in Transition.”

Sessions With Gauri Jauhar

Tuesday, 10 March

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    India: Creating a new natural gas economy
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    India is promoting a gas-based economy and increasing the share of natural gas in its energy base from 6.2% to 15% by 2030. Investments are planned for building terminals, pipelines, and city gas infrastructure. The size of the Indian gas market may range from US$150 to US$250 billion over a decade, potentially reaching 70% of India’s population with natural gas infrastructure spreading to 50% of its land. Within midstream, pipelines are being built and funding options are available to incentivize gas pipelines to new areas. How can natural gas be a key tool to achieve India’s challenge of energy security and energy sustainability? What incentives should government provide to gas-based power plants? How can gas-based thermal power plants play a balancing role in infusing 450 GW of renewable capacity by 2030? What carbon cost mechanism should be added to the cost of coal-powered generation? What are global best regulatory and market development practices to grow the gas market?