Nick Singh leads a team of engineers and scientists, specialising in Smart Grids, Control Systems and Renewable Integration. Nick has 27 years of experience in the Field of Electronic Engineering, DEng and Project Management(PPM); Graduate School of Business Leadership (UNISA, SBL), and Wits University Business School (Exec Dev) and is the lead on Smart Grid Collaborations between ERDF(France), ISGF(India), EPRI(USA) in the respective areas. He is a Global Smart Energy Federation (GSEF) and GO Green Africa board member and is the GSEF Ambassador for Anglo Phonic Africa.
He currently holds the position of Head of Smart Grids Centre of Excellence and Microgrid Programme Director. He is involved in centre leadership and management, technical support and strategy for Research Testing & Development and Line divisions. Nick is a member of the Study Committee of Technology Technical advisory Committee (SCOT TC), South African Smart Grid Initiative (SASGI), ISGAN, and EPRI. He is an Industrial mentor at a number of Universities local and abroad and has delivered multiple public lectures in the field of Smart Grids including Renewable integration and EV integration internationally.
Nick is presently managing DER implementation within the Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural sectors, as well Renewable Containerised Off-grid applications for rural areas. Nick is the Microgrid project Director responsible for the role out of systems within Eskom and the Assembly & Manufacturing at Komati PowerStation which is being repurposed in Eskom’s Just Energy Transition.
