Ndukwe Ibiam is a professional Power System Engineer with over 12 years of experience in the energy sector. He has dedicated his career to enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of electrical networks and focuses on smart grid reliability, renewable energy integration, and resilient electrical network operations.
He holds a Master’s degree in Automation and Control from Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland, UK and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. He is currently working as a System Forecasting Engineer at one of the UK’s major Electricity Distribution Company, Northern PowerGrid.
Sequel to his master’s degree, he contributed as a Research Assistant, where he furthered research on the design of an adaptive battery control system for priority load management of critical grids. And in the last decade, he has been deeply involved in different roles in the energy sector. As an Electrical Project Engineer, where he engaged his expertise in evaluating grid connection options and implementing intelligent energy management systems for renewable assets. Also, as a Protection, Control and Metering engineer in one of the major energy distribution companies in Nigeria. His industrial journey started when he was an industrial trainee with the National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) which he completed with exceptional records and achievements.
He is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a founding partner of an NGO that is focused in youths in STEM called, Youths for Rural Education and Job Creation Initiative (Y4RED); where he helps to hone the skills of young high school graduates to fully explore their STEM potential.
Prof. Mohammad Abusara received his BEng degree from Birzeit University, Palestine, in 2000 and his PhD degree from the University of Southampton in 2004, both in Electrical Engineering. His PhD was concerned with control of grid-connected inverters and was sponsored by Bowman Power Group Ltd in Southampton. He worked for Bowman Power until 2010 during which he led the development of a number of commercial products including a novel interleaved grid-connected inverter, line interactive uninterruptable power supply, AC microgrids, converters for hybrid vehicles and sensorless drives for high-speed machines. He joined the University of Exeter in 2010 leading the microgrids research activity and acting as Director of Post Graduate Research in the Engineering department. To date he has obtained research grant income of c. £2.1m from Research Councils and industry, and published over 100 papers and a monograph, supervised 12 PhD students to completion and currently supervising 7 PhD students. In 2014 he founded HiT Power Ltd (HPL) to commercialise his work in Power Electronics. HPL has developed a cost effective, efficient and reliable 100kW converter for battery to grid applications. A number of those converters are currently installed at the Royal Mint, Portsmouth International Port and industrial estates in South Wales