The engineer behind PVxp
Yazan Abawi CEng MIET
Chartered Engineer · Solar PV & Battery Storage
I'm a chartered engineer with over fifteen years in electrical engineering, the last decade of it in solar PV and battery storage. I currently lead engineering for a solar and BESS project pipeline at a major UK renewables developer, having previously worked across concept design, grid connections and project development for schemes ranging from a few megawatts to gigawatt-scale portfolios.
💡 Why PVxp exists
PVxp started with the small, repetitive jobs that fill a solar engineer's week: laying out PV arrays in AutoCAD, comparing PVsyst reports line by line, manual design optioneering and capacity estimation. I built tools to speed up my own workflow, and this site is where I share them.
The other half of PVxp is the writing. Topics like meteorological dataset selection, yield uncertainty, and design trade-offs get surprisingly little open discussion in our industry — most of that knowledge lives inside companies as house rules. The articles here are my attempt to put more of it in the open, based on real project experience rather than vendor material.
🔧 What I work on
- ▪ Concept design for solar PV and BESS — layouts, SLDs and yield modelling, 5 MW to 1 GW
- ▪ Grid connections — DNO and transmission applications, 11 kV to 400 kV
- ▪ Energy yield assessment and meteorological dataset analysis
- ▪ Technical due diligence of third-party designs, EPC proposals and equipment
- ▪ Technical specifications, employer's requirements and tender support
🎓 Credentials
- ▪ Chartered Engineer (CEng MIET) · APM Project Management Qualification
- ▪ MSc Artificial Intelligence (Distinction) — University of Bath
- ▪ MSc European Master in Renewable Energy (Distinction) — Loughborough University
- ▪ BSc Electrical Engineering (Hons)
- ▪ Published in Renewable Energy on the energy yield of direct DC-powered PV façade systems
✉️ Get in touch
Feedback on the tools, article suggestions and industry conversations are always welcome — the best ideas on this site so far have come from other engineers.