Professional Experience:
Techno-commercial renewable energy expert with a global consulting experience of an aggregate capacity of 7+ GW covering round the clock Renewable Energy, rooftop solar, ground mounted solar, microgrids, storage, green hydrogen and other clean energy technologies across geographies such as Bhutan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Europe, India, Jordan, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Solomon Islands and United Kingdom. Experience of training participants from more than 30 countries ranging from entrepreneurs, govt. officials, utility engineers, scientists, project managers, design engineers and students.
Supporting Indian Railways in their Net Zero journey via Round-the-clock Renewable Energy procurement, developing renewable energy action plan, performance improvement of existing rooftop solar assets, planning for deployment of storage projects, regulatory analysis, etc.
Experience of developing National Standards for Rooftop Solar PV Entrepreneur, Solar Proposal Evaluation Specialist and Solar Grid Engineer and contributed to the development of Suryamitra Handbook for Solar PV Installations
Certified Trainer of International Finance Corporation (IFC); Certified Master Trainer, SCGJ; Certified PVsyst Expert; Certified Trainer for PVSOL - Solar Simulation Software (Valentin Software, Germany); Certified by Stanford University for "Energy Innovation & Emerging Technologies"; Certified in Solar PV technology by Steinbeis, Germany. Certified by European Union Energy Centre as Renewable Energy Expert
Advising and training government stakeholders on improving legal, policy, regulatory, fiscal and technical measures to enhance grid connected renewable energy.
Supporting department of state governments (Gujarat and Andaman & Nicobar) and regional governments (Sri Lanka and Bhutan) in clean energy transition.
Supporting Indian Railways in achieving its Net Zero Goal for 2030. This includes working on planning projects and designing tenders for large scale round the clock RE procurement, battery energy storage, performance monitoring and improvement of rooftop solar assets, regulatory analysis, stakeholder consultations, tariff analysis and developing plans & roadmap for RE procurement to achieve the goal by 2030.
Identify challenges and opportunities for accelerating deployment of renewable energy in South Asia; Redesign of policy and policy frameworks; Financial modeling; Prepare bidding frameworks; Training and capacity building.