विपिन महर्जन Bipin Maharjan

I grew up in the Kathmandu Valley, and my family is Newar — the people who built the brick-and-timber towns the scene behind this page is made of. I am an electrical engineer, finishing an MSc in Power Electronics and Drive Engineering at the Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk Campus. My work is on grid-forming inverters: the control that lets a converter hold up a grid by itself rather than follow someone else's, and what happens to it when that grid is weak — current limiting through a fault, and how a microgrid behaves once it is islanded. My thesis applies that to EV charging stations, which is why there are charging posts in the street below. More in the research section.

Before the MSc the work was in the field, and I still do some of it. I rebuilt and commissioned the damaged governor of a 2.5 MW unit at Indrawati III, which is back in service and still running, and earlier did the desk study for a 40 MW solar PV project and substation design at NEA Engineering. That period is why I am cautious about simulation results: a governor that behaves perfectly in a model and hunts on the real machine teaches you something no amount of further simulation will.