Resilient MicroGrid Architectures for Mission Critical Facilities: Bloom Energy
Event Details: http://power.ieeesiliconvalley.org/
Location: Google, Mountain View. SB65 Border to Border Conference Room
US-MTV-SB65
1365 Shorebird Way
Mountain View, CA 94043
Severe weather events such as hurricanes, torrential rains, snowstorms and wildfires are becoming the norm around the world. The most significant of those risks for a business that relies on electricity to keep its operations running is one that pertains to the availability and quality of power from the utility electricity grid. At the same time, electricity is a large and growing component of operation costs for many businesses, especially for data centers, hospitals, military establishments, manufacturing plants, office buildings and other facilities. Many of these facilities are choosing to build MicroGrids incorporating on-site power generation technologies and sophisticated load management to achieve resiliency of their power supply as well as advancing corporate goals around sustainability and operational cost reduction.
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- Date: 18 Sep 2019
- Time: 06:00 PM to 08:45 PM
- All times are (GMT-08:00) US/Pacific
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- 1365 Shorebird Way
- US-MTV-SB65
- Mountain View, California
- United States 94043
- Building: US-MTV-SB65
- Room Number: SB65 Border to Border Conference Room
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- Co-sponsored by Google, SCV Nano
Speakers
Rajesh Gopinath, P.E. of Bloom Energy
Mission Critical Facilities
Topics Include:
- Advanced MicroGrid architectures and trade-offs in design choices using distributed generation
- Recent examples of MicroGrid deployments in the data center, healthcare, retail, manufacturing industry
Biography:
- Rajesh Gopinath, P.E.is Senior Product Manager responsible for mission critical business at Bloom Energy, the provider of distributed on-site electric power solutions that is redefining the energy market. Bloom Energy Servers, based on innovative fuel cell technology, provide highly reliable, 24 x 7 constant power for MicroGrids and mission critical facilities. Rajesh has spent the last 15 years working on technical and business challenges of integrating various distributed generation sources into utility networks, mission critical systems, and MicroGrids. Rajesh has also held positions in R&D and operations at Bloom. Previously at Toshiba Corporation and AETI, Rajesh worked on design and ground-up development of power electronics for industrial, marine, oil & gas and wind and solar projects. Rajesh received the MSEE degree from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX and MBA from University of Texas at Austin.
Niru Kumar of Bloom Energy
Resilient MicroGrid Architectures
- Advanced MicroGrid architectures and trade-offs in design choices using distributed generation
Biography:
- Niru Kumar, SM-IEEE obtained an undergraduate degree in power systems engineering from University of Mysore, India. After working for IT consulting companies, she decided to move to the U.S. and get back to her first love of power systems engineering. She finished her MS in Energy Systems from the University of Washington in Seattle and went to work for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a Dept. of Energy run National Laboratory. Her research interests included effective demand response techniques to improve energy efficiency. She completed her MBA from Cornell University where she was recognized both as an ‘Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow’ as well as an ‘Emerging Markets Fellow’. From there she went to work for NextEra Energy where worked on Storage analytics, Microgrid analytics and Direct Load Control analytics for both FPL and NextEra. She later work for a FACTS startup based out of Union City called Smart Wires. Currently she works as a Senior Product Manager in Microgrids with Bloom Energy.
Agenda
When: Wednesday, September 18, 2019: Dinner & Networking: 6:00 pm; Presentation, 6:50 pm
Cost: Registration through 9/16/2019: $15.00 for IEEE members, $20.00 non-members. Walk-Ins if space available: $20 members/$25 non-members
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Event Details: http://power.ieeesiliconvalley.org/