Kimani Gichuche

Engineering and Entrepreneurship @ Adili Solar Hubs Limited

About

I am passionate in Entrepreneurship and Engineering. My Vision is to have impacted my community by providing them with reliable technological solutions, increasing their income and quality of life. My superpower is dyslexia, this has always led me to have creative solutions to most of the challenges life has thrown at me.

Country

City

Kenya

Industry

Renewables & Environment

Skill

Cooling System, Dyslexic Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Engineering, Renewable Energy Systems, Solar PV, Telecommunications, Project Management, Electrical Engineering, Teamwork, Team Leadership, Project Planning, Renewable Energy, Troubleshooting, Microsoft Excel, C, Networking, C++, Windows, Fiber Optics

Experience

Executive Director

Adili Solar Hubs Limited

2020-2 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Kenya

Team leader for this social enterprise focusing on developing Water Food and Energy solutions for marginalized fishing communities. Developing remote real-time monitoring solution for Energy, Water, temperature and weather for Adili Solar Hubs plant.

PV systems and energy management analyst

Adili Energy Solutions

2018-10 - Present · 8 yrs

Eldoret, Kenya

Engineering, Procurement and Construction of Smart Domestic Home systems above 300W. Design and project management of commercial and industrial PV system,

Technical Consultant

Knights Energy Kenya

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

Kenya

Technical Consultant

Drivelectric

2023-2 - 2023-11 · 10 mos

Kenya

PV Site Manager

Selenkei Investment Limited

2019-3 - 2021-2 · 2 yrs

Eldoret, Kenya

Construction of 2*40MW PV plants in Uasin Gishu County https://frontier.dk/radiant-solar-pv-project-kenya/ https://frontier.dk/eldosol-solar-pv-project-kenya/

Technical Director

Equatorial Energies

2015-3 - 2018-9 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Ngong, Kenya

Design of solar off-grid, grid-tie and hybrid photo-voltaic systems. Design of solar water pumping systems. Project management of Installation and commissioning of solar PV systems. Developing energy management systems Life-cycle analysis of Energy projects. Procurement management -generation of BOQs Financial analysis of energy projects computation of ROI.

Energy Engineer

Strathmore University

2014-9 - 2016-12 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Nairobi

• Training T1/T2 and T3 technicians; about 300 technicians by December 2015. • Plan and design facilities of T3 training infrastructure. • Designing, developing and building renewable energy technologies. • Performing feasibility studies for upcoming large-scale PV Plants • Provide consultation to clients on topics such as solar photovoltaic, hybrid systems, energy modeling, data logging, energy management, control systems and sustainable design. • Management of contractors in the implementation of energy projects. • Design, procurement and assembly of control and monitoring electrical boards • Monitor and analyze energy consumption. • Performing energy modeling, measurement, verification, commissioning, or retro-commissioning. • PV performance testing.

Telecommunications and Electrical Engineer

Systems Holding

2014-2 - 2014-8 · 7 mos

Kenya

· Fiber to the Building (FTTB) Huawei Safaricom ISP Installations and Cabling . · BTS recovery · IP-RAN: Huawei · MPESA servers upgrade installations and cabling: Huawei . Commprove monitoring systems installations and maintenance.:Commprove Orb Energy Sales and training on their products.