Anish Gaikwad is Deputy Director of EPRI’s Transmission Operations and Planning (TOP) group responsible for group operation and execution of research. In addition, he is the Senior Program Manager for EPRI’s Transmission Planning program providing strategic leadership to research areas related to loads and inverter-based resources, transmission technologies such as HVDC and FACTS, grid enhancing technologies, protection, advanced methods in transmission planning, transmission resiliency, and advanced analytics needed for transmission planning.
Mr. Gaikwad has co-led many EPRI initiatives on strategic topics such as integrated system planning (ISSP), climate resilience and adaptation (READi). He is providing guidance to DCFlex initiative focusing on the workstream related to modeling and reliability aspects of interconnecting data centers to bulk system.
He is based in Knoxville, TN.