Sanket Mankar

Senior Engineer Design & Development

Values and Principles are the top-most priority for me. I believe in optimism, physical & intellectual balance along
with a rational, systematic and responsible approach by respecting individuality, originality and creativity.
A renewable energy engineer with a background of electronics engineering & a demonstrated history of working
in the renewable industry since 3+ years. Skilled in Solar PV (on grid/off grid), offshore wind and energy storage
systems. Innovative re-designing skills and a strong believer in social innovation through technology.

Jun 2016 - Senior Engineer - Design & Development

Present Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy

Currently working on DC PLCC (DC power line communication)

scheme for MW scale PV plants, which will help in transmitting
"String" and "PV module health data over the existing DC power
cables in a solar PV plant instead of using separate BOP for
monitoring and O&M.
Also working towards design and sizing of energy storage system
which shall work alongside a generation forecasting module to
ensure minimum deviation from committed generation profile for
a power producer.
Redesigned Gamesa Electric Central Inverter (1000V model) to
Address accommodate ACB inside the Inverter enclosure, simultaneously
Yash Coloney, Behind tower line, reducing the heat losses and effectively reducing cost of the model.
Near Kathora sq., VMV rd., Designed a PID based Power plant controller for reactive power
Amravati 444604, MH, IN. compensation/injection (both inductive and capacitive) into grid
without the need of APFC banks and the working was verified and
Phone certified by TUV-SUD.
+91- 9145113735 Assisting in technically optimal and cost-effective solar plant
designing.
E-mail As and when required, frequently running PVsyst simulations for
sanketdmankar@gmail.com different site locations for yield estimation and how to improve
PR and CUF.
Date of Birth
Training sales team in technical aspects of Inverter product
24th December, 1990. considering competition and market research and analysis.
LinkedIn Majorly responsible for handling all technical aspects of Inverters
linkedin.com/in/sanketdmankar and related BOP in a solar power plant.

Aug 2014 - Research and Development Associate

Mar 2016 GERMI (Gujarat Energy Research and Development Institute)

Handled two major R&D projects involving state and central govt.
agencies (National & State load dispatch centres, National Wind
Energy Institute, IN).
The projects were namely
a. Solar Insolation and Wind Velocity and Power Forecasting
Using Hybrid Statistical Models,
b. Design of Smart Wind Farms with Forecasting Module.
 For the first project, analysing various methods like Persistence,
ARIMA, physical methods and more advanced analysis
techniques like Artificial Neural Networks (essentially based on
historical data), Support vector machines (SVM) to forecast on a
short-to-medium term basis.
Successful development and implementation of Short term
power forecasting module (statistical model, ANN based) for the
state nodal agency with an overall accuracy of 82% (historical data
available was of only one year and season based modelling of
ANN was done) which was then used at all electrical pooling
stations in Gujarat, IN.
The second project was based on the underlying concept of
controlling the Wind Power production by dynamically following
the changes in wind speed and simultaneously incorporating it
using Smart Wind Mills, thereby calling it a Smart Wind Farm.
Involved simulating different size and shape of turbine blades in
various wind flow regimes and conditions. Instead of CFD
simulation we opted for Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory
and determined that an annual increase of 22% was observed in
energy production. And we were also able to publish our findings.

Jun 2013 - M.Tech - Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore.

May 2015 M. Tech in Energy & Environmental Engineering
Distinction (9.15 CGPA)

Jun 2008 - B.Tech VJTI, Mumbai University.

May 2012 B. Tech in Electronics Engineering.
First class (6.4 CGPA)

Nov 2017 Design and sizing of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to
mitigate wind farm power deviations (Under review in ESS,
Intersolar, 2017)
Apr 2015 Theoretical Study of Wind Turbine Model with a New Concept on
Swept Area, Dr. Sagarkumar M. Agravat, Mr. Sanket Mankar et al.,
Energy and Power Engineering, 2015, 7, 127-134, Published Online
April 2015 in SciRes. (Link here)

Solving complex problems, Interested in different technologies

which make day to day life easier, esp. open source research,
A big fan of TED Talks.
Playing Table tennis & Football, Dancing, listening to Arijit Singh
(Indian Playback Singer), Playing Flute and Guitar.