Pramod Jain
About Pramod Jain
Pramod Jain is founder and president of Innovative Wind Energy, Inc. (IWE). Pramod is a recognized expert in the field of wind energy. He is the author of a book Wind Energy Engineering published by McGraw-Hill, New York in 2010 (first edition) and 2016 (second edition), and translated to Chinese in 2013. He is currently a consultant in the area of renewable power (wind and solar) to US Agency for International Development (USAID) projects in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan), Indonesia and other regions. His other clients include Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, United Nations Development Programme and US Department of Energy. He also consults with the private sector on large wind farm projects in the United States, the Caribbean and South Asia. Pramod is also involved with several power sector digitization efforts including IoT, data analytics (Statistics, Machine learning and AI) and big data. Following is a list of ongoing activities: - Working with Power The Future, USAID program for Central Asia. - Working on RE resource assessment for Bhutan, an ADB project. - Working with Scaling Up Renewable Energy (SURE), USAID program. - Working on RE forecasting tool for client in India, using combination of statistical and machine learning algorithms. - Working on IoT and digitization in the power sector. - Speaking at ADB's Asia Clean Energy Forum June 7, 2018 on Digital model for utilities of the future. - Organizing IOT Workshop at Asian Development Bank's Asia Clean Energy Forum, June 5-8, 2017. - Working on IOT service on GE Predix and IBM Watson platforms for an application in wind farm and other power plants. Developing business processes in utility industry that would benefit from Blockchain technology.