Malay Soni

About Malay Soni

Hi I am Malay Soni. My core experience is in Asset Management for Solar power including Ground mounted and rooftops.(Able to manage upto 200MW Ground mounted plant single-handedly) I also have a specialization in data analytics and have great working experience as a plant performance analyst (More than 200MW), Also have an area of interest in Solar PV designs well as a Project Coordinator, Solar I&C, and Solar R&D. Thank you.

Experience

1. Senior Engineer

   CleanMax

   Mar 2020 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Handling of Mumbai and Gujarat cluster with 43 Sites (20MW)as coordinator.* Responsible for monitoring of plant from SCADA and ensure plant should be 100% up andrunning according to the prediction.* Ensuring minimum time to identify the Plant & Grid outages and Co-ordinate with vendorteam for attending any fault and improvement required based on SCADA and analytics tominimize down time and improve plant performance.* Work with Daily analysis of plant performance. Report and identify the root cause if plantis under performing and intimate to vendor team for addressing the issues and improvethe plant performance.* Convergent with energy auditing practice and identifying the underperformancearea/components of plant and recommend improvement measures to regain plantperformance to original level.* Generating historical trend reports for critical parameters including generation, irradiation,curtailment, plant down time and critical equipment failures.* Prepare daily, weekly, monthly report on plant performance analytics and suggestmethods to improve plant performance.* Vendor performance evaluation on every quarterly period.* Coordination with vendors for the O&M Activities during the troubleshooting for reduce the TATperiod.* Perform the site audit for the “AHS” and “PSS” For the better Life of plant & for Safety audit.* Ensure to perform the site activity or maintenance activity with proper & require safety precautionto avoid the accident.* Perform the module testing activity with PV Analyzer and thermography camera.* Review of O&M contract as well as negotiate with the technical terms of PPA.* Visit the new sites as auditor and evaluate the site commissioning work for better and smooth O & Mactivity.* Checking & monitoring Inverter string on daily basis and rectified accordingly.* Coordination with client incase of any doubt or query related to the generation and O&M activities.* Provided technical support to vendor as needed.

Education

• Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedbabd

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical Engineer

  2011 — 2016

• VPMP POLITECHNIC

  Diploma, Electrical Engineering, First class

  2006 — 2010