13 Jul
2018
13 Jul
'18
2:42 p.m.
FYI: this might be relevant to anyone working with mini-electrical grids.
Best,
-Michael
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Date: Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 4:38 PM
Subject: Happening next week! Grid Interconnection of Mini-Grids Webinar
To: Michael Oghia <mike.oghia(a)gmail.com>
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*Grid Interconnection of Mini-Grids*
The Energy Access Practitioner Network, in partnership with the Clean
Energy Solutions Center, is hosting a *no-cost webinar on mini-grids and
interconnection* that will highlight the challenges and possible options
for mini-grids after the main grid arrives*.* Please join our webinar
panelists at *10am EST on July 18, 2018 *to learn about various
country-specific case studies from Asia and Africa, and to discuss the
potential requirements—policy, technical, and commercial—needed to achieve
a relatively seamless interconnection of mini-grids with the main grid.
The presentations will be followed by an *interactive question and answer
session* with the audience.
Panelists for the webinar include:
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Bank for nine years, where she was responsible for the design and
scaling-up of commercially-viable and innovative business models for
electricity access. More recently, she was the program manager at wPOWER, a
U.S. Department of State initiative, where she directed program
development, donor management and communication for wPOWER Hub's impact.
She has been involved in designing and implementing national-level energy
programs in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
*Speakers:*
*Chris Greacen* works on policy and hands-on implementation of renewable
energy projects from the village to the national level. As co-director of
the nonprofit organization Palang Thai, he helped draft Thailand's policies
on very small power producers and conducted studies in support of the
country's feed-in tariff program. He cofounded the Border Green Energy Team
in Western Thailand, where he helped rural communities build more than a
dozen micro-hydropower projects. As a World Bank consultant, he helped the
Tanzanian Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority develop
Tanzania's small power producer regulatory framework. As a consultant to
the World Bank, GIZ and the Asian Development Bank, he is helping the
government of Myanmar develop and implement the off-grid component of its
national electrification program and develop a regulatory framework for
mini-grids and small power producers. He has worked on renewable energy
mini-grid projects in Cambodia, India, the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Micronesia, Thailand,
Vanuatu and Native American reservations in the United States. He holds a
Ph.D. in energy and resources from the University of California at
Berkeley, where he wrote his dissertation on engineering, politics and
common property resource aspects of micro-hydropower in rural Thailand.
*Dipti Vaghela*, who was raised in the Mississippi Delta, Dipti holds a
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Uthe niversity of California,
Berkeley and a M.S. in Environment Studies from San Jose State University.
Inspired by her family's roots in rural India, Dipti focuses on
sustainability of decentralized renewable energy solutions for rural
electrification. Since 2003, her parallel roles as researcher, practitioner
and facilitator have contributed to synergizing communities, local
entrepreneurs, field-based NGOs, policy makers and funding agencies in
implementing bottom-up, learning-process approaches to community-based
energy initiatives in rural south and southeast Asia. In 2012 she
co-founded the Hydro Empowerment Network (HPNET), a knowledge exchange
platform for local practitioners to advance policy, technology and
socio-environmental aspects of micro/mini hydropower. In 2014 and 2015, she
helped the Renewable Energy Association of Myanmar (REAM) conduct
practice-to-policy exchanges that promote scaled efforts for renewable
energy mini-grids in Myanmar. Dipti was a 2016–2017 Fulbright Public Policy
Fellow placed in Myanmar to support REAM's efforts to accelerate the
National Electrification Plan with sustainable integration of renewable
energy mini-grids. She currently facilitates and manages the Hydro
Empowerment Network of South and Southeast Asia, while also freelancing to
advance and scale Myanmar's local manufacturer-developers of micro/mini
hydro and advanced biomass gasifiers.
*Sam Slaughter* is cofounder and CEO of PowerGen Renewable Energy, a
micro-grid builder, developer and operator based in Kenya and Tanzania.
Over the past seven years, PowerGen has installed several hundred renewable
power systems throughout seven East African countries, including over 50
micro-grids. Prior to PowerGen, Sam's work experience included time with
UBS Investment Bank, VCharge Energy and Harvard University's Trustman
Fellowship. Sam is a graduate of Harvard's School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences, where he received a bachelor's degree in Mechanical and
Materials Engineering.
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