Business of wind energy
"USAID’s Central Asia Regional Electricity Market Activity" was published in the October 2021 edition of QazaqGreen. Authors: Armen Arzumanyan, Pedro Rubiou and Pramod Jain.
Invited presentation on June 29, 2021 at this webinar:
https://www.trade.gov/sabit-wind-power organized by the US Department of Commerce, International Trade Division.
Presented at USAID organized webinar series. See the recording here (RE Zones presentation starts from minute 29)
https://www.usaid.gov/energy/sure/system-planning-webinar
Coauthored an article in the Renewable Energy World with the WWF team on "More wind and solar capacity could save some of the world’s most important rivers".
Conducted a lecture on wind energy for MSE 8803I Class at Georgia Tech.
Innovative Wind Energy (IWE) is part of a team that was awarded a five-year contract to support the continuation of USAID’s Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE) project. Led by Tetra Tech as the prime contractor, SURE builds on USAID’s work with 20 partner countries to promote competitive procurement of renewable energy generation, integrate variable renewable energy into national power grids, support development of progressive energy policies, and seek solutions to power health facilities and create a climate-smart future.
Presented “The Future of Hydrogen for Seasonal Energy Storage in Grids with Very High Penetration of VRE” on Nov 4, 2020 at the International Innovative Investment Forum, Innoweek, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
USAID has published a whitepaper that we wrote as part of the Scale Up of Renewable Energy project.
https://www.usaid.gov/energy/auctions/vre-forecasting
It is a primer on variable renewable energy forecasting.
Abstract:
Conducted a workshop on VRE forecasting at KEGOC. For details see http://ptfcar.org/en/blog/2019/03/renewable-energy-forecasting-workshop/