Prior to his appointment, Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu was the Deputy Managing Director of the institution having been appointed in January 2018.
He also served as the Customer Project Manager in the Energy Service Department of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc., the largest utility company in the US with over 15,000 employees and serving over 3.3 million electric customers and over 1 million natural gas customers.
Below is his full profile
Kwame Agyeman-Budu is an energy expert with 28 years of work experience in the energy industry. Before his appointment, Agyeman-Budu was the Customer Project Manager in the Energy Service Department of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc., the largest utility company in the US with over 15,000 employees and serving over 3.3 million electric customers and over 1 million natural gas customers. His responsibilities among others were to manage, coordinate, and provide safe, reliable, and efficient electric and gas services to customers. Agyeman-Budu’s years of experience in the energy industry cut across areas of Distributed Generation (Combined Heat & Power – CHP), Solar (Photovoltaic), Advanced Battery, Windmill, and Fuel Cell Technologies, Alternate Energy, Environmental Audits and Monitoring, Environmental Risk Assessment, Power Plant Systems, Smart Grid Systems, and Systems Engineering and Management.
In his academic pursuit, Kwame Agyeman-Budu obtained the following qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Energy Management from the New York Institute of Technology, New York
• Bachelor of Technology Degree in Telecommunications from the New York City College of Technology, New York
He also served as the Customer Project Manager in the Energy Service Department of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc., the largest utility company in the US with over 15,000 employees and serving over 3.3 million electric customers and over 1 million natural gas customers.
Below is his full profile
Kwame Agyeman-Budu is an energy expert with 28 years of work experience in the energy industry. Before his appointment, Agyeman-Budu was the Customer Project Manager in the Energy Service Department of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc., the largest utility company in the US with over 15,000 employees and serving over 3.3 million electric customers and over 1 million natural gas customers. His responsibilities among others were to manage, coordinate, and provide safe, reliable, and efficient electric and gas services to customers. Agyeman-Budu’s years of experience in the energy industry cut across areas of Distributed Generation (Combined Heat & Power – CHP), Solar (Photovoltaic), Advanced Battery, Windmill, and Fuel Cell Technologies, Alternate Energy, Environmental Audits and Monitoring, Environmental Risk Assessment, Power Plant Systems, Smart Grid Systems, and Systems Engineering and Management.
In his academic pursuit, Kwame Agyeman-Budu obtained the following qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Energy Management from the New York Institute of Technology, New York
• Bachelor of Technology Degree in Telecommunications from the New York City College of Technology, New York
• Teacher Certificate, Wesley College, Kumasi
• O’Level Certificate, Ejisuman Senior High School, Ejisu
In his professional career with ConEdison, the numerous contribution of Kwame to the
company included:
• Managed a $15M High Tension Gateway Expansion Project (GEP) at LaGuardia Airport, New York City.
• Managing a $5m High Tension Reinforcement Project, and a 10MW Distribution
Generation Plant (Co-generation) for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) at their North River Waste Water Treatment Plant (NRWWTP) in New York.
• Managed an 11MW Distribution Generation Plant (co-generation) in Staten Island, New York for Cubit Power (private company) to sell back (Service Classification: SC-11, Buyback) the entire 11MW of power produced to the grid of Consolidated Edison
Company of New York.
• Supervised the numerous New York City Energy Conservation Solar Projects for New York City Public Schools, Department of Transportation, New York Police Department (NYPD), and New York Fire Department (NYFD). These projects have brought Load Relief on Consolidated Edison Company of New York to effectively, reliably, and efficiently power its customers in New York City and Orange and Rockland Counties without service interruption.
• Responsible for varieties of power distribution, power quality, lightning protection, transformer installations, Distribution Generation (Co-gen), and Natural Gas services.
• Responsible for electrical installation, construction, operation and maintenance of High Tension service including all cables, wires, buses, switchgears, transformers, network protectors (NWP), instrument transformers (PTs and CTs).
• Responsible for the installation of Renewable Energy Technologies (Solar, Fuel Cells, Windmill, and Thermal).
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling of projects costs, and take corrective actions to minimize deviation.