Title: Energy Sustainability to Remote Part of Country

Biography: Pankaj Kumar was engaged with some of the historic Rural and Renewable Energy developments in Nepal’s far flung landscape over the last 18 years. For about decade, Pankaj worked as Electrical Engineer cum Renewable Energy Expert in executing large-scale RE infrastructure projects, which presented varied challenges. He jointly worked with government executing agency, AEPC and various development partners i.e. EU, GIZ, SNV and NRREP. As a RE expert, he assisted the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC) to modernize and reform the RE policy, development, delivery mechanism and promotion throughout the country. Given his technical expertise, he was deputed by the EU and SNV as an Project Coordinator and Expert to the Alternative Energy Promotion Center (AEPC), where he worked on Renewable Energy Technical, Monitoring, Evaluation and Capacity Development. He spent more than decade for renewable energy development to the poor people of Karnali (far-flung) and Far- western districts of Nepal. Pankaj holds a Masters’ in Rural Development from Tribhuvan University. He received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (formerly REC), Durgapur, India. He recently awarded to short course: 76th UNEP/UNESCO/BMU Fellowship Award “Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency”, from Dresden, Germany in Dec 2018.