Sochima Abudei

Bio

A clean energy personnel with over 3 years’ experience in business and strategy development in sustainable energy transition and decentralized energy access. One of the core impacts of my work on promoting clean energy access has been the development of project and business frameworks that scale energy access in unserved and underserved communities through grid- connected and off- grid minigrids while enhancing the impact clean energy access has on economic growth.

• Business Development Associate

  Husk Power Systems - Full-time From February 2022 to September 2022

  I oversaw three productive-use appliance financing programmes and two agricultural acceleration programmes (cold storage acceleration and greenhouse farming) facilitating  the transition to commercial and productive electricity use in six northern Nigerian communities, resulting in a 40% increase in electricity consumption and revenue. I developed strategies for e-mobility, cold storage acceleration, and food processing, and I am currently working on the acceleration of clean cooking.

• Business Development

  Nayo Tropical Technology Limited - Full-time From May 2021 to January 2022

  I facilitated the deployment of two grid-connected and eight standalone minigrids (3 MW capacity) by managing stakeholder engagement at community, local, and international levels across 10 communities including tariff and negotiations enabling the provision of electricity to 10,000 individuals, 200 businesses, and 10 public institutions.

• Business Development Assistant

  Nayo Tropical Technology - Internship From September 2020 to April 2021

  • I remotely monitored the electricity generation and consumption rate of 9 operational minigrid sites and prepared system optimization and utilization reports. rn• I carried out site scoping using google earth to identify 10 viable sites for prospective minigrid deployment.rn• I generated maps for project development sites using Google Earth and Arc GIS. rn• I identified potential business and funding opportunities

• Master's in Advanced Technology Management with focus on renewable energy and energy transition.

  University of Wolverhampton From September 2022 to October 2023
• Bachelors in Urban and Regional Planning- Rural Development and Urban Economics

  University of Nigeria From January 2014 to July 2018

Balancing (electricity) Climate policy Electricity market design Energy market models Energy wholesale markets Market-based mechanisms Operations

• English

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