Vijay Modi

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, of Earth and Environmental Engineering and of Climate, Columbia Climate School
Director , Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab
Affiliated with: The Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center (CEEC)
500 West 120th Street Suite 220, Mail Code 4703 New York, NY 10027

BIOGRAPHY:

Modi is a recognized world leader in the area of energy access, working closely with city and national agencies and utilities to understand how energy services can be more accessible, more efficient and cleaner. Modi has advanced a unique spatial electricity planning model that can guide grid expansion in under-resourced countries, which has been put to use by the Kenyan, Nigerian and Liberian governments, among others. Modi has also made extraordinary research contributions that address the problem of urban energy consumption in developed countries. His urban energy work is at the forefront of the type of climate adaptation strategies essential for moving humanity toward a lower-carbon future.

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Only select projects listed below

Name	Start Date	End Date
Affordable Healthcare in India Translation Award	10/1/11	7/31/15
Consultancy Agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Earth Institute II	6/15/12	6/14/13
Consultancy Services for Preparation of National Electrification Least Cost Geospatial Rollout Plan	1/14/16	5/28/17
Consultancy to support Preparatory Study and Readiness Assessment for Electrification Planning for B	10/18/16	12/31/18
Create a Foursquare for Development	11/1/13	4/30/15
Cutting Edge ICT : How ICT is Poised to Change the Delivery of Energy Services - a 1.5 Day Event	8/1/17	12/31/18
Development of a toolkit for planning universal access to electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean	4/11/16	10/10/16
Elaboration of a Rural electrifcation Investment Program for Senegal and Preparation of a Prospectus	4/18/16	3/31/18
Electricity Growth and Use in Developing Economies (e-GUIDE) Center	1/1/19	12/31/21
ENI SDSN Energy for all in Sub-Saharan Africa	7/26/13	6/25/17
Facilitating Combined Heat and Power Projects in New York City	7/1/11	12/31/12
Geospatial Energy Infrastructure Planning for Tanzania: Advanced Training and Follow-on Support	10/5/16	6/30/17
Geospatial Mapping and Least Cost Electrification Planning including an Access Scale- up Program Ren	9/3/12	3/3/14
Guinea National Electrification Scale-Up	10/24/14	10/23/15
Haiti Regeneration Initiative / Cote Sud Initiative	1/1/11	10/31/12
IGERT: Solving Urbanization Challenges by Design – A New PhD Program Between Architecture & Engineering	8/1/09	7/31/16
INFEWS/T1: Understanding Multi-scale Resilience Options for Vulnerable Regions	9/15/16	8/31/20
Liberia Power Sector Capacity Building and Energy Master Planning	12/15/11	8/31/13
MESA: The Metropolitan Evacuation Simulation Application	9/1/13	10/1/14
Micro-Solar Utilities for Small-Scale Irrigation in Mali	10/1/13	9/30/15
Myanmar-Support the National Electrification Project (NEP) Investment and Budget planning process	3/13/15	6/30/15
Nigeria Electricity Access Program (NEAP) Technical Assistance (TA)	6/10/14	6/30/15
Nigeria Electricity Access Program (NEAP-2) - Technical Assistance (TA)	8/25/15	6/30/16
Papua New Guinea - Toward Development of a National Electricity Roll-Out Plan	7/12/13	12/31/13
Preparing of Myanmar National Electrification Least cost Geospatial Planning (grind and off grind)	11/5/13	3/12/15
Promotion of Smart Solar Irrigation Systems in West Africa	8/7/18	8/31/20
Rural Energy Plan subaward- Network Expansion Inputs Development of the rural Energy Master Plan	7/1/15	5/1/16
Science-Based Policy Innovation and Implementation for the MDGs	10/1/06	12/31/11
TA-7512 REG: Empowering the Poor through Increasing Access to Energy-Development of GIS-Based Decision	11/14/14	3/15/16
The African Millennium Village Initiative (Phase 2)	1/1/08	6/30/11
Supporting Irrigated/Non-irrigated Land Field Survey Prioritization through Use of Satellite Imagery in Selected Areas of Ethiopia	9/1/20	1/31/21
Heating Energy Modeling with Breakthrough Energy	10/1/20	9/30/22
Energy Reform in Paraguay	6/1/20	8/26/21
Support the development of a consolidated data portal and analytics dashboard for the ATA horticulture ACCs	4/21/20	9/30/21
Interconnected Pathways to Development	9/1/21	8/31/24
Electricity Growth and Use in Developing Economies (E-GUIDE) Nigeria: Estimating Latent Demand for Electricity	12/1/19	9/1/23
Deep Atlantic's Role Millennial Atmospheric CO2 Changes	3/26/19	12/31/21

8 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS

Only select publications listed below

Name	Published Date
Data for: A data-driven approach for the disaggregation of building-sector heating and cooling loads from hourly utility load data	2023
Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay’s Energy Sector	2021
Data for: Electricity Load Implications of Space Heating Decarbonization Pathways	2019
Opportunities for and Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York City	2013
Addressing the Water Crisis in Gujarat, India	2011
Rural Development in Africa	2011
Addressing undernutrition and climate change in the millennium villages: enhancing resilience of rural communities.	2010
Global Classroom Lecture: Energy and Technology	2009

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Vijay Modi

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8 PUBLICATIONS ON COLUMBIA | ACADEMIC COMMONS