Behind the Blades: Vahan Gevorgian’s 3-Decade Clean Energy Odyssey

Q&A With Vahan Gevorgian, Senior Research Fellow and Chief Engineer at NREL Twenty-nine years ago, Vahan Gevorgian was a postdoctoral researcher studying wind and hybrid energy systems at the State Engineering University of Armenia when a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity presented itself. Ken Touryan, a National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researcher who was supporting the Armenian energy sector, connected Gevorgian with Larry Flowers. Flowers was an NREL researcher visiting Armenia for NREL’s Village Power Project, which focused on electrifying rural locations with renewable energy. The two met up at the university, and…