Speaker

Dr. Bikal Pokharel

Bikal leads the Power & Renewables market research for Asia Pacific at Wood Mackenzie.  He is a seasoned power and renewables analyst with an established track record of research and consulting in market modeling, inter-fuel analysis, generation planning, cost analysis and bidding strategies. Bikal has presented at leading conferences in the region and is regularly quoted in the media like Reuters, Bloomberg, Business Times, CNBC. He has been with Wood Mackenzie since 2007. Prior to Wood Mackenzie, he was a power market specialist at PowerSeraya, a local power generation company in Singapore. Bikal holds a PhD in Power Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with specialisation on the aspects of generation planning in competitive electricity markets.