Sooraj Narayan

Sooraj is a Senior Research Analyst at Wood Mackenzie’s Asia Pacific Power & Renewables team. He contributes power and renewables modelling and analytical research in the APAC region focusing on the South Asian power markets. He has eight years of experience carrying out research, consultancy and software development in various domains of the energy sector including generation planning, power system dispatch optimization, non-dispatchable renewable energy modelling and battery energy storage modelling.

Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Sooraj worked in ABB-Hitachi Energy as a market application engineer specializing on the Great Britain power market. He has worked as a consultant to Central Electricity Authority - Ministry of Power, Govt. Of India for the modelling and preparation of the National Electricity Plan for India. He has also worked for a market leader EPC company in the energy storage division where he gained expertise in the modelling, sizing and performance analysis of grid-scale lithium-ion batteries.

Sooraj holds a Master’s degree in electrical power systems from National Institute of Technology, India.