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Ninad Mutakar, Fortum, Microgrids

Ninad Mutatkar

Project Manager, Innovation Accelerator
Fortum

Ninad Mutatkar is a keen advocate of decentralized renewable energy and is currently Manager with Fortum's Innovation Accelerator team. He specializes in new business development around clean energy solutions focused on emerging markets, and now leads Fortum's Solar2Go pilot in India -- to enable scaling up of energy access mini and micro-grids through digitalization. Prior to joining Fortum in Sweden, Ninad worked in the upstream solar industry in China, overseeing quality assurance and due diligence procedures of solar panel manufacturing units in China, India, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. Ninad holds a double degree master in Sustainable Energy Engineering and Solar Energy & Commercialization from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He speaks English, French, Hindi, Marathi fluently, Swedish with working fluency, and basic Mandarin Chinese. In his free time, Ninad is an advanced scuba dive-master and weekend tennis player.