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San Diego, Ca, Us

San Diego, Ca, Us

Høvik, Oslo, No

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Optimize complex solar and energy storage configurations using in-house software to help the Development team in responding to RFPs across different electricity markets.• Model energy storage system energy loss due to inverter efficiency, SOC access, duty cycle limitations, degradation etc. in various applications like DC smoothing, clipped energy capture, firming, etc.• Quantifying risks in Power Purchase Agreement: Help the Project Valuations and the Development team in quantifying the risks involved in a project due to production technology and resource.• Demand Charge Management: Investigate the inputs to the optimizer for demand charge management. Building a solar power forecast into the DCM algorithm. Pursuing the Six Sigma Green Belt with this project.• Resource normalization: Apply statistical learning techniques in R to reduce bias in the long term satellite data of solar resource and temperature using on-site measured data.• Solar+Wind+Storage project: Led the analysis of Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility - country’s firstsolar+wind+storage utility-scale trifecta project together with Portland General Electric. • Sub-hourly data analysis: Built methods to predict minute level solar DC power based on the data pulled from different sites’ SCADA system.• Operational sites’ assessment: Audited different assets’ energy estimates, compared with the operational numbers and provided explanations for the differences seen. • Uncertainty in resource calculator: Developed a calculator in python to quantify uncertainty in resource-based on spatial and temporal variability. The satellite data vendor’s API was used to access resource information

St Paul, Minnesota, Us

• Perform detailed solar resource and PV energy modeling for both utility and DG scale plants.• Developed automation tools using python to streamline tasks like project report making and resource file inputs to PVsyst

Golden, Co, Us

• Queried solar resource data for different solar sites, generated weather files, writing scripts for comparison of different PV performance models' prediction with actual field data and assessed the validity of models for different module technologies.• Analyzing the impact of fins on temperature of PV module to improve thermal management and increase performance.• Analyzed heat transfer in the receiver assembly of a linear Fresnel concentrated solar collector to aid material selection of the assembly's components. • Developed convective and radiative heat transfer model for the receiver of concentrated solar power technologies using Fluent to aid material selection of the assembly's components. • Synthesized wind speed probability data and charts from National Solar Radiation Database to determine operating wind speed conditions for deployed concentrated solar power plants.• Calculated wind loads and vortex shedding frequencies for the receiver of concentrated solar power collector using Fluent. Checked the mesh sensitivity, y+ values of wall and flow separation for a wide range of flow velocities and directions.• Valued performance degradation and revenue depreciation of Nevada Solar One concentrated solar power plant to aid a performance-improving technology's feasibility study.

Golden, Co, Us

• Assisted undergraduate students in learning fundamental concepts and developing problem solving skills.• Assisted faculty members with exams, sample problems, class projects and record keeping.• Served as a guest lecturer on multiple occasions.

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Construction Automation of J3 Project.

Master’S Degree, Thermal Engineering & Fluid Science

M, Mechanical Engineering