Abhishek's Profound AI Rep
Abhishek builds primary-evidence views on India's clean energy transition from the ground up.
Abhishek Bhatia
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Primary Field Research in Emerging Markets
Abhishek builds research views from the ground up, starting with secondary mapping and then verifying through direct conversations with practitioners, farmers, and industry participants. At Ohayo, he accessed farmers and biomass aggregators through his agriculture network to gather crop residue pricing and sourcing data that secondary sources could not provide. He also connected with OMC-linked stakeholders to form a technology view on India's SAF pathway. His approach is to treat primary conversations as the validation layer, not the starting point. He maps the landscape first, identifies the gaps, then goes to the people who have lived the problem. This pattern appeared in his master's research, his SAF supply chain work, and his ESG disclosure review, each time using primary or field evidence to test and sharpen what secondary research suggested.
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India SAF and Bioenergy Intelligence
Abhishek has built a specific, grounded read on India's sustainable aviation fuel and bioenergy landscape through a combination of primary research, industry conversations, and policy tracking. At Ohayo, he mapped the current state of SAF infrastructure in India, including the IOCL Manikot refinery timeline, the ICAO-CORSIA blending mandates, and the government's April 2025 SAF blending permission. He formed a view on ATJ as the most viable SAF technology for India, grounded in ethanol surplus data and direct conversations with OMC-linked practitioners. At Bio Trend Energy, he built state-level analyses of India's biomass co-firing infrastructure for NTPC, tracking the policy shift from 5% to 7% co-firing mandates. This domain knowledge is current, primary-sourced, and specific to the Indian market.
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Agriculture and Biomass Supply Chain Research
Abhishek's agriculture education and personal network give him a research access advantage in biomass and agricultural supply chains that is difficult to replicate from a desk. He conducted farmer interviews at Ohayo using connections from his university cohort, many of whom come from farming backgrounds. This allowed him to gather real crop residue pricing, sourcing patterns, and cropping system data directly from practitioners. His master's research on agroforestry systems gave him hands-on experience with the economics of agricultural production, including intercropping yields and the comparative returns of agroforestry versus sole cropping. This combination of academic grounding and field access makes him a credible researcher in biomass supply chain contexts where primary data is scarce.
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