Ghanashyam Ranjitkar

Project Lead/Research Engineer

I am the project lead/research engineer on Marine Energy Technology Group at CanmetENERGY-Ottawa. Focus of this group is to perform cross-cutting R&D to support the Canadian marine energy sector. Marine energy includes tidal current, wave and river hydrokinetic energy.

Natural Resources Canada

Current research and/or projects

BC Marine Energy Resource Atlas and Technical Resource Assessment
- Establishing unit energy costs for wave, tidal and river hydrokinetics energy
- Assessing future growth potential energy production from marine energy
Advancing River Hydrokinetic Energy R&D
- Methodology to identify river hydrokinetic resource locations using satellite images
- Performance monitoring of river hydrokinetic energy system
- Supporting development of river hydrokinetic turbine array configuration guidelines

Research and/or project statements

Co-ordinating and providing guidance to technology and project developers in project planning and studies that would enable deployment of community-scale tidal and river hydrokinetic energy demo projects;
Collaborating with NRCan programmes supporting the deployment of tidal and river hydrokinetic projects to incorporate delivery of technical performance data
Monitoring and reporting on the performance of demo projects including specifying monitoring systems, performing technical analysis of data in terms of power generation, efficiency and reliability; and validating numerical modelling;
Performing detailed resource assessment of attractive river hydrokinetic sites in MB and ON

Professional activities / interests

Canadian delegate for IEA-Ocean Energy Systems Executive Committee
NRCan’s representative on the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee114 (IEC/TC114) on Marine Energy standards development
- Led and managed the IEC/TC114/62600-1 project team for developing the technical specification on marine energy terminology

Education and awards

BEng in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey

International experience and/or work

Worked as a technical expert in the micro to small hydropower R&D and project implementation for over 10 years in Nepal.
Extensive international experience gained working with IEA_Ocean Energy Systems and IEC/TC114.