Dr. Ajith Gopi
City
Thiruvananthapuram
Country
Contact
ajithgopi@ieee.org
Profession / Job Title
Engineer
Organisation
ANERT
Areas of Expertise
Technical Photovoltaics Modules & Systems, Grid-integrated PV Systems, Renewable Energy Grid Integration, Smart Energy Systems, Rural Energy Supply & Distributed Renewable Energy Systems, Mini-grids, Energy Acccess, Strategies and Policies, Climate Change, Community Power, Solar Cities, Energy Meteorology, Renewable Energy Resource Assessment & Climate, Solar Radiation Availability & Variability, Wind energy
Organisational Project Managament, Systems Integration, Education and Training, Marketing and Commercialisation, Research, Media & Public Relations, Organisational Development
Geographic Global, South-Eastern Asia, Western Asia/ Middle East, Northern Europe, Southern Europe
Short Description
Currently heading the heading the Technical Consultancy Division and Higher Capacity Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant Programme of ANERT ANERT is the State Nodal Agency of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Govt. of India under the Kerala State Government’s Department of Power.
Conceptualized, designed, implemented Kerala's first Remote Solar Village Electrification Project which brought light to thousands of tribal families in remote areas. Heading the Technical Consultancy Programme of ANERT for Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants in the State. Designed and currently heading the implementation of 2MW PV Power Plant at Kuzhalmannam, Palakkad for ANERT.
Consultancy experience with Parsons Brinckerhoff, the Global Engineering Consultancy Group for their Renewable Energy Division in the Indian Subcontinent. Consultancy experience for a 25MW PV Power Plant commissioned at Gujarat Solar Park and 2MW Solar PV Project in Chhattisgarh State and 1MW Solar PV Project in Andhra Pradesh. Technical Due Diligence and Consultancy experience of Multiple Solar PV Projects of more than 25MW in the Jiangsu Province in China and 10 nos. of PV Projects with a total capacity of 20MW in Portugal.
Project Manager (PMC) for 91.8MW Wind Farm Projects in Kutch in Gujarat and experience in 200MW Wind Resource Assessment projects in India along with Technical Due Diligence experience for multiple MW Wind farms in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu & Karnataka.
Worked as a leading Techno-Management team member that launched the Indian operations of SunTechnics, the PV Integrator Company under the CONERGY Group, Germany. Experience in building and managing a fast majority of all department needed in a Renewable Energy company, including Market Research, Business Development, Detail Engineering, Project Management and liaison with the Govt Nodal Agencies, etc.
Trained by the LIFE Academy, Sweden for the “Wind Power Development and Use” which included the technical training sessions in Beijing (China), Stockholm Institute of Technology (K.T.H) (Sweden) and the study visits at Off-shore and on-shore wind farms in Europe and India. Countries visited as part of the training includes Sweden, Denmark, Norway, China & Tanzania.
Conceptualized, designed, implemented Kerala's first Remote Solar Village Electrification Project which brought light to thousands of tribal families in remote areas. Heading the Technical Consultancy Programme of ANERT for Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants in the State. Designed and currently heading the implementation of 2MW PV Power Plant at Kuzhalmannam, Palakkad for ANERT.
Consultancy experience with Parsons Brinckerhoff, the Global Engineering Consultancy Group for their Renewable Energy Division in the Indian Subcontinent. Consultancy experience for a 25MW PV Power Plant commissioned at Gujarat Solar Park and 2MW Solar PV Project in Chhattisgarh State and 1MW Solar PV Project in Andhra Pradesh. Technical Due Diligence and Consultancy experience of Multiple Solar PV Projects of more than 25MW in the Jiangsu Province in China and 10 nos. of PV Projects with a total capacity of 20MW in Portugal.
Project Manager (PMC) for 91.8MW Wind Farm Projects in Kutch in Gujarat and experience in 200MW Wind Resource Assessment projects in India along with Technical Due Diligence experience for multiple MW Wind farms in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Tamilnadu & Karnataka.
Worked as a leading Techno-Management team member that launched the Indian operations of SunTechnics, the PV Integrator Company under the CONERGY Group, Germany. Experience in building and managing a fast majority of all department needed in a Renewable Energy company, including Market Research, Business Development, Detail Engineering, Project Management and liaison with the Govt Nodal Agencies, etc.
Trained by the LIFE Academy, Sweden for the “Wind Power Development and Use” which included the technical training sessions in Beijing (China), Stockholm Institute of Technology (K.T.H) (Sweden) and the study visits at Off-shore and on-shore wind farms in Europe and India. Countries visited as part of the training includes Sweden, Denmark, Norway, China & Tanzania.
Education & Qualifications
PhD
Publications (Papers, Books, Articles, etc.)
Journal Publications:
1. Authored and published a paper titled, “Small Wind Turbines and Small Wind-PV Hybrid Systems
for Off-Grid Applications in India” at the” International Conference in Wind Energy-Trends and
Issues” organized by National Technical Teacher’s Training Institute (NTTTR), Bhopal, during on
12 -14 October 2011. (Quarterly Research Journal of Engineering, Science & Management
Education, ISSN : 0976-0121, Volume -4, Issue- IV, Oct-Dec-2011) - (Exhibit 1)
Conference Papers:
2. Ajith Gopi. “Modeling and Simulation of the Photovoltaic Components of a Solar Power System
for a quick evaluation” Proceedings of the Renewable Energy World India 2012 Conference held
at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on 19 April 2012.
3. Abhijith Mohan, Bindu.G.R & Ajith Gopi. “Performance Improvement of Solar PV Plant using
Advanced Control Techniques”. Proceedings of the National Conference on Technological
Trends, NCTT August 2014, Trivandrum.
4. Abhijith Mohan, Bindu.G.R & Ajith Gopi. “Performance Improvement of Solar PV Plant using
Ripple Correlation Technique Combined with Adaptive Control”. Proceedings of ICETREE-
2014, pp343-50, August 2014 (published by Elsevier, India), Kollam.
1. Authored and published a paper titled, “Small Wind Turbines and Small Wind-PV Hybrid Systems
for Off-Grid Applications in India” at the” International Conference in Wind Energy-Trends and
Issues” organized by National Technical Teacher’s Training Institute (NTTTR), Bhopal, during on
12 -14 October 2011. (Quarterly Research Journal of Engineering, Science & Management
Education, ISSN : 0976-0121, Volume -4, Issue- IV, Oct-Dec-2011) - (Exhibit 1)
Conference Papers:
2. Ajith Gopi. “Modeling and Simulation of the Photovoltaic Components of a Solar Power System
for a quick evaluation” Proceedings of the Renewable Energy World India 2012 Conference held
at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on 19 April 2012.
3. Abhijith Mohan, Bindu.G.R & Ajith Gopi. “Performance Improvement of Solar PV Plant using
Advanced Control Techniques”. Proceedings of the National Conference on Technological
Trends, NCTT August 2014, Trivandrum.
4. Abhijith Mohan, Bindu.G.R & Ajith Gopi. “Performance Improvement of Solar PV Plant using
Ripple Correlation Technique Combined with Adaptive Control”. Proceedings of ICETREE-
2014, pp343-50, August 2014 (published by Elsevier, India), Kollam.
Language skills
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Honors/Awards Received
Second Best Paper Award:
Paper titled, “Small Wind Turbines and Small Wind-PV Hybrid Systems for Off-Grid Applications in India” selected as the “Second Best Paper” in the second” International Conference in Wind Energy-Trends and Issues ” organized by National Technical Teacher’s Training Institute (NTTTR), Bhopal, during 12 -14 October 2011.
Paper titled, “Small Wind Turbines and Small Wind-PV Hybrid Systems for Off-Grid Applications in India” selected as the “Second Best Paper” in the second” International Conference in Wind Energy-Trends and Issues ” organized by National Technical Teacher’s Training Institute (NTTTR), Bhopal, during 12 -14 October 2011.