Dr. Mandhir Sahni has nearly 15 years of experience in generation and transmission planning in deregulated energy markets in the U.S. Mandhir is a subject matter expert on integration of renewable and emerging technologies to the grid and has served as an advisor, principal-in-charge and/or consultant to numerous utilities and/or Independent System Operators (ISOs). Dr. Sahni has led the origination, planning and approval of over $1.5 billion worth of transmission development projects in ERCOT and other ISO/RTO regions. He also has been at the forefront of the integration of wind, solar and emerging technologies to the Texas grid via the CREZ transmission development and has served as expert witness from a transmission planning, reliability and economic transmission development perspective at the PUCT.
Mandhir’s areas of expertise include grid integration of renewables, generation and transmission planning, energy market analysis, production cost modeling, power system reliability / protection, niche power system studies (SSR, EMT evaluations), advanced power system studies, energy storage modeling/analytics, and modeling and analysis of renewable / emerging technologies. Mandhir also has experience in renewable generation development, transmission planning and grid integration across all major ISO-centric markets in the U.S. including CAISO, PJM, ERCOT, MISO ISO-NE and SPP. Dr. Sahni has also served as principal in-charge on numerous international engagements including power system and renewable integration studies in India, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Indonesia.
Mandhir has published over 50 journal, conference and invited-expert-panel-session papers. Dr. Sahni is the author of 1 approved and 2 pending U.S. patents.
Mandhir holds a B.S.E.E. from B. M. S. College of Engineering (India), and an M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering – Power Systems and Energy Economics from The University of Texas, Arlington.