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Conducted a 4-day workshop on wind resource assessment as part of the USAID SINAR project. Its always rewarding and fun to be with young and enthusiastic engineers who are interested in clean wind energy.

Conducted wind resource assessment workshop in Makassar Indonesia, as part of USAID's SINAR project.

Delivered keynote on RE Grid Integration for Net Zero at the Vibrant Gujarat 2024 Summit in Gandhinagar Jan 10-12, 2024.

Recording of the keynote is available here: https://infinite.vibrantgujarat.com/live?tt=7&ti=64d4dba65f92fa5c7e5278b1&sti=653220299cda0602b7c5b16f

Session details are at: https://vibrantgujarat.com/schedule-detail/653258226f231dc1eece739e

#renewableenergy #netzero 

Honored to be invited to deliver a keynote on renewable energy grid integration and offshore wind at the Vibrant Gujarat Summit Jan 10-12, 2024. 

https://www.vibrantgujarat.com/schedule-detail/653258226f231dc1eece739e

We had the honor of presenting our wind energy zones work to the Minister and the State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Moldova. The work was done as part of USAID's Moldova Energy Security Activity.  It promises to accelerate the development of wind resources in Moldova in an optimal manner.

Here are links to articles (in Romanian) about the work

https://www.mold-street.com/?go=news&n=17090

https://newsmaker.md/rus/novosti/v-moldove-est-11-rayonov-gde-mozhno-postroit-vetryanye-parki-do-kontsa-goda-provedut-pervye-tendery/?fbclid=IwAR2iZ1bI_FJCAYeZ0QwLsq0dQk89Vu8RpgEoQlAjvEQ5ntnbXV4aOUMoztE

https://agora.md/2023/10/24/potential-energetic-in-tara-sunt-cel-putin-11-zone-cu-potential-de-energie-eoliana-nevalorificat

https://agrotv.md/in-republica-moldova-ar-putea-fi-instalate-parcuri-eoliene/

https://www.facebook.com/USAIDMoldova/posts/pfbid02gh4dAb51GACBhZJRuCnc6ZyehwDNMMbHCJYkbuQTuZDpfDVveE7D1fyb6uPj4iZJl

Visited the top eleven wind energy zones that were developed by IWE under the USAID MESA project.  Site visits we done Oct 19-25, 2023.

Proud to announce the publication of our article in the Applied Solar Energy journal.

A Multicriteria Approach to Identifying and Developing Renewable Energy Zones in Tajikistan | SpringerLink

Authors: J. Akash, M. Kudusov, J. Akanksha, J. Pramod, and U. Madvaliev

Abstract

Renewable energy zones approach is an international best practice for the development of renewable energy projects. A multicriteria and multiphase methodology is described for identifying and developing solar and wind zones. Important criteria like resource density, distance to transmission network, distance to logistics network, elevation, slope, and non-overlap with protected areas, agricultural lands and water bodies were analyzed in a GIS model. The methodology combined the criteria into a levelized cost of energy financial model for the purposes of ranking the zones. The methodology was successfully applied to the Sughd province of Tajikistan under the USAID’s Power Central Asia Activity, which resulted in the identification of top ranked solar and wind zones.

Conducted a workshop on Aug 21-23, 2023 in Makassar on best practices in strategic planning for renewable energy power procurement. 

Conducted a workshop in Chisinau on July 24-25, 2023 as part of kickoff of the wind zones activity for the USAID Moldova Energy Security Activity.  

Conducted two workshops in May 2023 on feasibility study for wind projects and grid integration of wind power for the USAID SINAR program in Indonesia.

IWE conducted a workshop on March 20-22, 2023 in Chisinau, Moldova under the USAID Moldova Energy Security Activity.  The topic was RE generation forecasting and its integration with the dispatching operations.

Honored to have presented at the Uzbekistan InnoWeek 2022 on "The future of green hydrogen for seasonal energy storage in grids with high penetration of VRE/net-zero emissions."

https://innoweek.uz/