Minigrids in Africa

Dr. Joseph Mutale is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology of the United Kingdom, and a Fellow of the Engineering Institution of Zambia. He is the co-founder and former Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Sustainable Energy Systems for Developing Communities. In addition, Dr. Mutale is Professor Emeritus of Sustainable Energy and Electric Power Systems at the University of Manchester in the UK. He is a former Director of Engineering Development at ZESCO, the Zambian National utility, as well as a Senior Partner and Energy Lead at Paeradigms LLC.

Dr. Henry Louie is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seattle University. He is the author of the book “Off-Grid Electrical Systems in Developing Countries,” which has been used by universities across the world to teach the fundamentals of minigrid design. He is recognized as a Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Power & Energy Society on the topic of energy access. Dr. Louie was a Fulbright Scholar at Copperbelt University in Zambia, and is President and Co-Founder of KiloWatts for Humanity, a non-governmental organization that provides off-grid electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Dr. Bruce Krogh is a professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and IEEE Centennial Medal awardee, and lived for six years in Kigali, Rwanda, as founding director of Carnegie Mellon University Africa, a branch campus of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, he worked as an engineer in the Energy Systems Division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation. He was founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, which publishes papers on control system innovations in powers systems and other applications.