Nick Singh
Nick Singh
Head of Smart Grids Centre of Excellence & Microgrids Programme Director
Power Delivery & Utilisation
Eskom Research Testing & Development
TITLE:Powering the future : Envisioning the role of power electronics for energy storage & conversion with microgrids for a Sustainable Energy Transition.
 

Biography:
Nick Singh has more than 27 years of experience, specialising in Smart Grids, Control Systems and Renewable Integration. He leads a team of engineers and scientists, and facilitates laboratories in the Smart Grid domain, equipped to service the requirements of the power utility, which starts at Generation, Transmission, and Distribution ending at the customer. 
He currently holds the position of Head of Smart Grids Centre of Excellence and Microgrid Programme Director. He is involved in centre leadership and management, technical support and strategy for Research Testing & Development and Line divisions. Nick is a member of the Study Committee of Technology Technical advisory Committee (SCOT TC), South African Smart Grid Initiative (SASGI), ISGAN, EPRI and Chairs the SSEG/DER Working group that manages the technology standards in the area of SSEG/DER integration. He is an Industrial mentor at a number of Universities local and abroad and has delivered multiple public lectures in the field of Smart Grids and Renewable integration.
Nick has 27 years of experience in the Field of Electronic Engineering, MEng and Project Management; Graduate School of Business Leadership (UNISA, SBL), and Wits University Business School (EDP) and is the lead on Smart Grid Collaborations between ERDF(France), ISGF(India), EPRI(USA) in the respective areas. He is a Global Smart Energy Federation (GSEF) Board member and is the GSEF Ambassador for Anglo Phonic Africa.   
Nick is presently managing DER implementation within the Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural sectors, as well Renewable Containerised Off-grid applications for rural areas. Nick is the Microgrid project Director responsible for the role out of systems within Eskom and the Assembly & Manufacturing at Komati PowerStation which is being repurposed in Eskom’s Just Energy transition.


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