Imtiaz Madni

ElEnergy - Hydrogen Prefeasibility - South Korea: Scoping and managing technical and feasibility
studies for projects relating to hydrogen production technologies as well as hydrogen management and downstream use in the energy, transport, and industrial sectors. Perform studies on renewable resources, distributed energy resources, battery energy storage, relay and protection, monitoring, and smart grid
related applications using relevant industry standard software. Interact with customers, internal employees, contractors, and project stakeholders to assess the technical feasibility of distributed energy projects including commercial and utility‐scale photovoltaics, energy storage and microgrid projects.
- Ausnet and Water Corporation - Australia: Analyse and ensure performance of hybrid projects / collocation of BESS. Perform technical advisory support for BESS projects, from areas such as
feasibility, development, and construction, to commissioning and operation. Collaborate with the
corporate strategy team to help grow activities in battery energy storage. Define the scope of services and technical requirements for external consultants and contractors regarding the implementation of energy storage systems. Lead the technical counterpart for the works carried out by external consultants. Electrical substation design and design management. Primarily with projects involving MV/LV Substations design and reticulation.
- Yarra Valley Water Protection and Arc Flash Studies: Design management for protection
coordination and arc flash studies of several Sewerage and Water Pump Stations: SPSs and WPSs, around YVW’s service area. Power systems analysis including load flow, fault level, harmonics
mitigation, maximum demand, and arc flash assessment.

Performed FEED and detailed designs for each development stage to deliver the work packages, schematic layout, and HW-Verification performed in different regions. Undertaken detailed power system/grid code compliance studies using PSCAD and Digsilent’s PowerFactory for R0, R1, and R2. Experienced in grid connection due diligence including grid prospecting, connection
optioneering, risk assessment and capacity/constraints assessment. Strong understanding of technical requirements (NER schedules S5.2 and S5.3) and guidelines for connecting new generators and loads (including new guidelines for DMAT).
Successfully (in time, budget and quality) managed the delivery from project design to site acceptance and achieved practical completion and project final acceptance of several ongoing and new Microgrid and Battery Energy Storage System projects. Some of the major projects include:
- Essential Energy Microgrids: Establishment and maintenance of Generator Performance Standards (GPS) and monitoring plan. Utilising specialised software and computer modelling techniques to monitor plant performance, compile reports and provide recommendations for improvement. Coordinating and assisting with queries related to compliance, testing, and rectification plans.
Network and GPS compliance modelling, simulation, and studies with PSCAD and Powerfactory for integration of seven solar farms with DC coupled BESS into Essential Energy’s grid network.
- Cherratta Lodge and Kings Village Microgrid - Karratha: Delivery of large scale distributed solar
power system with battery storage, diesel and wind generation, integrated with grid supply. Project involves development of smart solution for microgrid control, including predictive and instructive controls. One of the requirements for approval were modelling and study of system behavior (steady state and dynamic) and its impacts on network.
- Australia Microgrid Centre of Excellence (ACMOE) - WA: Partnering with ACMOE to deliver
micorgid feasibility and impact analysis for communities in remote areas in WA.
Technical Lead for FEED for remote communities Microgrid project (ARENA funded). The microgrids
included novel back-to-back converter topology with Western Power connection, 5MW PV and 5x 500kW wind turbines.
- Water Corporation - Water Desalination Plant, Kwinana: Asset management of the electrical
infrastructure and equipment in accordance with ISO 9001, IEC 61508, IEC 61511, ISO 26262, ISO 21500 and ISO 55001. Planning, analyzing, and conducting safety activities on all types of electrical
products and projects. Performing Gap Analysis and providing recommendation for closing Gaps.
Planning and coordinating functional safety activities for entire projects. Managing project risk with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Talison Lithium - Greenbushes: Maintenance and asset management of 132kV / 22 kV substation.
Project involves ongoing inspection and maintenance of HV substation. Initial work included designing of protection scheme and provision of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and backup power generation for control systems in switchroom.
- Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) - Tom Price: Project involved designing, installation and
commissioning of standalone power system for automated tunnel lights. The challenges included
designing, modelling, and load flow analysis of integrated solar BESS system, with electrical and
protection schemes, and control and communication design.
- Talison TSF Pump Station - Greenbushes: Designing, procurement, and project management for decant water pumping station with 1MVA 33kV / 415V substation and variable speed drives.

Actively involved in electrical engineering and control systems designing, modeling and simulation, documentation, installation, commissioning, and testing. Successfully delivered several projects in WA and eastern states, some of the projects with major industry partners are listed:
- BHP Nickle West Rocky’s Reward Microgrid - Leinster: Delivered electrical and control system
integrated with renewable energy system for Rocky’s reward open pit mine site. Project involved
designing and modelling, installation, commissioning and testing at site. Prepared all documentation including SLDs, QMP, ITPs, wiring drawings, cable and BoM schedules, and hand over. Ongoing operation and maintenance contract for site’s electrical, control and communication system.
- Western Power Stand Alone Power Systems - WA: Delivery of 41 standalone power systems (SPS) for sites across WA. Worked as a Lead electrical and project engineer for delivery of turnkey projects of worth over 20 million dollars. Projects involved all phases of system lifecycle, i.e., tendering, BAFO, designing, modelling, and report writing for electrical power and protection systems, automation and remote monitoring design and programming, preparing policy and system performance documentation, technical documentation and drawings, and testing including factory and site acceptance. Won ongoing
operation and maintenance contract for sites’ electrical, control and communication system.
- BHP Nickle West - Kwinana: Project involved feasibility study of integration of grid connected system with 1MW solar power system. Designing, modelling, and load flow analysis of integrated solar power system, with electrical and protection schemes, and control and communication design.
- Gruyere Gold Power Station - Partnered with APA Group to engineer, procure, install and commission hybrid energy system at Gruyere mine site power station. Responsible for design, procurement, installation, and commissioning of rooftop solar PV power integrated with gas and diesel generators.
Project involved extensive engineering and controls skills to increase the efficiency of power generation system.

Waste to Energy Plant - Kwinana, WA: Worked on Australia’s first waste to energy system design.
Project work starting from concept and scoping to design and feasibility. Project designed to work on novel reverse grate vario technology. Process involves thermal treatment and incineration of municipal waste for conversion into steam and energy. Project involved conceptualization, feasibility analysis, simulation and modeling of system performance, engineering design and documentation.
- Opal Australian Paper WtE - Maryvale, VIC: Electrical design and analysis of WtE system to convert 650000 tons per annum waste to energy. Planned, drafted, executed, maintained, and improved electrical instruments, equipment, facilities, components and systems; controlled computer-aided engineering and designed equipment to perform as per specification. Researched new manufacturing methods and trends to bring innovation into new technology in waste to energy process plants.
Designed PLC process automation systems including hardware and software platforms such as: Allen Bradley / Rockwell PLCs (PLC5, SLC, Logix), RSLogix 5000, RSLinx. Collaborated with engineering team members on several assignments, successfully completing projects of high value.

Research strategy development, technology assessments (including material production system, monitoring, process control etc.) related to projects covering photodetector and photovoltaics.
- American Military Research Lab: Developed a new generation of high-performance
nanowire-based photodetectors for a wide range of applications including solar power in space
and infrared detectors for space detection.
Worked on the development of novel nanostructured materials with unusual optical properties for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Special attention to our research was the development of tunable and functional nanostructured metamaterials that interact strongly with light. Such materials underpin novel optical technologies ranging from wearable sensors to night-vision devices.
- Australian Space Agency IR Detectors: Development of uncooled longwave infrared imaging sensors for applications like security, surveillance, industrial monitoring, and autonomous vehicle navigation.
Developed infrared sensors based on advanced nanocrystalline materials with low noise equivalent difference temperature (NEDT), high pixel density, and frame rates exceeding those of typical detectors.
- ASELSAN - Turkey: Development of high value-added electro-optic integrated solutions for air-based applications; surveillance systems, laser designators, laser range finders, vehicle sighting systems, electro optical director, thermal imaging systems, cooled and uncooled thermal imagers, image intensifiers. Design and development of hybrid energy systems consisting of PV solar modules, wind turbines, and
energy storage units.

Huawei’s Smart PV Project (China): Worked as Photovoltaics (PV) specialist on research and
development projects that lower manufacturing costs, increase efficiency and performance, and improve reliability of PV technologies, in order to support the widespread deployment of electricity produced directly from sunlight.
Created and approved accurate energy model of entire plant in PVSYST. Calculated expected solar energy production. Shading analysis, voltage-drop calculations, short-circuit calculations and cable studies using CYMCAP and ETAP.
Designed system specifications to adhere to international standards and client requirements. Prepared blueprints, technical drawings and outlining specifications of electrical power systems and large-scale solar power electronics.
Fabrication and application of electronic devices to achieve high k dielectric properties for application in system in package technology with Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Application of nanodevices for automation and control systems with Huawei.
- 3M-Huawei Solar PV Manufacturing (China): Development of advanced materials for the solar
industry. From engineered films to modular assembly solutions, worked on engineered products to enhance performance, help improve reliability, and help drive down the critical cost per watt. Synthesis of advanced films, including materials that provide a barrier against moisture, precision-coated structured films that help increase PV module power, and dielectric products that help improve the aesthetic of the PV module.

Process control, optimization, and designing for production of industrial petrochemicals. Full engineering track (R&D, conceptual, basic, detail design, commissioning) of production facility. Focused on monitoring of safe operation of process units with evaluation of their efficiency on variable plant parameters including furnace, compressors, pumps, heat exchangers.

Samsung Techwin Co. Ltd: Developed devices for remotely monitoring energy production of renewable systems, enabling substantial savings on company testing resources. Synthesis of functionalized silver and copper nanoparticles, functionalization & improvement of dispersion stability of carbon nanotubes & their application in nanocomposites for electronics.
Monitored a number of engineering projects for facility, managed small changes and worked on capital improvements project as well. Areas of work involved synthesis and characterization of copper nanoparticles, and development of printing technology based on water-soluble conductive nano copper ink for printed electronics.

Operation and production control. Reviewing specific plant performance to plan on a daily basis and assist with setting and optimizing of plant parameters.
Troubleshooting integrated process problems including field observations & process data analysis.
Provide recommendations and follow through with commitments to solve root causes in a dynamic operational plant. Manage the quality and dispatch of products.