Chris Greacen

Chris Greacen works on policy and hands-on implementation of renewable energy from village to government levels. As co-director of the non-profit organization Palang Thai he helped draft Thailand’s Very Small Power Producer (VSPP) policies and conduct studies in support of the country’s feed-in tariff program.

As a consultant to the World Bank, GIZ and ADB he assisted the Myanmar government in developing and implementing the off-grid component of Myanmar’s National Electrification Program, work that has included drafting a regulatory framework for mini grids. From 2008 to 2014 he worked as a World Bank consultant assisting the Tanzanian Energy Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) developing the regulatory framework for Tanzania’s Small Power Producer (SPP) program, and is currently engaged in a similar process in Haiti and Rwanda.

He has worked on renewable energy mini-grid projects in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Myanmar, Vanuatu, Micronesia, India, US Native American reservations, and the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK).

• Mini grids
• Renewable energy
• Rural electrification in developing economies

• PhD, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
• MS, Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley
• BA, Physics, Reed College