Research Interests:
o Renewable (Wind and Solar power)
integration
o Power systems
o Electric vehicle intgeration
o Smart Grid and microgrid
o Demand Side Response/Management and
Electric Vehicle Integration.
o
Wide
Area Measurement Systems (WAMS), Wide Area Monitoring Control and Protection
(WAMPAC)
o
Power
System Flexibility
Past Research Experience:
o
Research
and Development(R&D) Engineer, KK Wind Solutions, Denmark (≈4
years)
o
Senior Post Doctoral Researcher, Electricity Research Centre, UCD, Ireland
(≈1 year)
o
Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA (≈4 months)
o
Assistant Professor, Department of
EEE, IIT Guwahati (≈4 months)
Ongoing Projects:
o
Sustainable Energy system for Achieving Novel Carbon neutral Energy
communities (SUSTENANCE),H2020 India-European Union collaborative project
o
Smart Tools for intelligent Operation of Renewable Energy integrated power System
o
Smart Charging of Electric Vehicles
o
Global review of EV charging infrastructure and way forward reccommendations for Indian EV Ecosystem
o
India-UK centre for Education and Research in Clean Energy (Indo-UK project on microgrids) (Co-Investigator, Funding: DST)
o
Smart Planning and Operations of grids with Renewables and Storage (Investigator, Funding: DST under MI program)
o
National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education (NCPRE) Phase-II (Investigator, Funding: MNRE)
Completed Projects:
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Grid Stability of Large-Scale Renewable Energy Integrated Power System (Indo-Canadian collaborative project)
o
Secure Integration of Renewable Energy through Microgrids (PI, Funding: Industrial Research & Consultancy Centre, IIT Bombay)
o
Secure and Stable Grid Integration of Large-scale Wind Energy
o
Renewable Energy Management Centres training for India (Indo-German collaborative project)
o
Technical evaluation of hybrid solar-wind energy system technology
o
Development of 2.3 MW wind turbine generator model for Indian grid code compliance certification(PI, Funding: A German based wind industry)
o
Field measurement based validation of a type 4 wind turbine generator model(PI, Funding: A German based wind industry)
Select List of Projects Worked on previously:
o
Development of Secure, Economic and
Environment Friendly Modern Power System, Aalborg University, Denmark.
o
WAMS Based Intelligent Operation and
Control of Modern Power System with large Scale Renewable Energy Penetration, Aalborg University and KK Wind Solutions, Denmark
o
Enhancement of Short-term Power
System Flexibility at High Wind Penetration Levels, Electricity Research Centre,
Dublin, Ireland.