Bharti Patel
Engineering Services Director – Engineering ServicesBharti has 13 years of experience in the energy industry, working in New Zealand and in the UK for local and international clients. Her experience includes working for Transpower and consultancies including AECOM (NZ) and TNEI Services (UK).
Bharti developed a passion for renewable and low carbon network projects while working in the UK. Her work involved feasibility of development projects and included a focus on power system studies to enable connection of renewable generation.
While at Transpower Bharti worked for the System Operator as an operations engineer. In this role she was responsible for planning outages on the system by assessing power system and market impacts to meet regulatory requirements. She then moved to a project management role where she delivered strategic and tactical projects which included forging new ways of working within the business.
Joining Infratec in October 2021 she is excited to be leading the engineering team to build innovative solar and battery projects in NZ and the Pacific.
In her spare time, you’ll find Bharti gardening or on walks in Wellington’s town belt.
Training and Qualifications
- Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Bachelor of Commerce, Operations Management
- Prince 2 Practitioner
- ICAgile Certified Professional