Offshore green hydrogen
Wind-powered electrolysis and hydrogen buffering linked to LH₂ shipping or pipeline export, with opt-in research modules for compressed-H₂ shipping and ammonia carriers, studied as one coupled system.
Owais Ahmad · Engineer & researcher
Engineering a more resilient energy future.
I research renewable energy and hydrogen systems, and build the software to understand how they perform in the real world.
PhD Candidate · Mechanical Engineering
University of Victoria · British Columbia, Canada
Renewable energy. Rigorous models. Real-world decisions.Discover the work
Research focus
Real systems.
Every hour of the year.
My work connects physical models, long weather records and optimization, so that design decisions account for when energy is available, where it can be stored and how it can be moved.
Remote community microgrids
Dispatch and sizing of renewable, storage and diesel microgrids, comparing forecast-informed model predictive control with conventional load-following.
Energy storage
Batteries, underwater compressed-air storage and hydrogen inventories: when storage improves reliability or cost, and when it does not.
Optimization and uncertainty
Multi-objective design with NSGA-II/III, mixed-integer dispatch, sensitivity and Monte Carlo analysis, and year-to-year weather variability.
Research software
C++ and Python simulation platforms with conservation checks, regression tests and recorded provenance, so that results can be rerun and audited.
Power systems and solar PV
An electrical power-systems background and more than three years designing, commissioning and maintaining commercial solar-PV installations.
Built for research
Complex systems.
One connected workspace.
OffshoreLH2 brings wind, hydrogen production, storage, shipping and delivered cost into one chronological research platform.
Explore OffshoreLH2
01 / PHYSICS
Model the whole chain
A deterministic C++20 core connects wind, electrolysis, storage, liquefaction and export, with hourly energy and mass balances.
02 / REPRODUCIBILITY
Trace every result
Every run records its configuration, weather-data hash and software version. Sensitivity, Monte Carlo and design optimization build on the same engine.
03 / RESEARCH INTEGRATION
Extend the workspace
The desktop candidate includes a separate onshore workspace. Microgrid integration and a unified model remain planned.
H2 Intelligence roadmapResearch software · Access available on requestRead the step-by-step guide
Selected publication · 2026
Operability thresholds in offshore green hydrogen
Nonlinear operability thresholds in offshore green hydrogen production: Multi-objective system design under metocean uncertainty
Eleven years of hourly ERA5 data for a North Atlantic and a North Sea site, an hourly production, storage and vessel model, and tri-objective optimization show how wind–wave transfer limits shape offshore hydrogen design. Performance responds sharply when those limits are strict and levels off as transfer capability improves; the selected North Atlantic design reached US$8.53/kg, against US$11.78/kg for the North Sea design.
Background
From solar-PV projects to doctoral research
Engineering practice came first: system sizing, single-line diagrams, procurement and commissioning. It still shapes how I model systems today.
Experience
- 2023 – present
PhD Researcher, Energy Systems and Scientific Computing
University of Victoria
- 2023 – present
Teaching Assistant
Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, UVic
- Apr – Sep 2026
Research Assistant, Power for People
University of Victoria
- 2019 – 2023
Project Engineer, Solar PV
Voltric Energy (Pvt.) Ltd., Peshawar
- 2017 – 2018
Power Engineer
Huawei Technologies, Pakistan
Education
- 2023 – 2027 (expected)
PhD, Mechanical Engineering
University of Victoria · candidacy passed April 2025
- 2018 – 2020
MSc, Renewable Energy Engineering
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar
- 2013 – 2017
BSc, Electrical Engineering (Power Systems)
UET Peshawar · graduated with distinction
Let’s connect
Good research starts
with a conversation.
I welcome conversations about research collaboration, evaluating OffshoreLH2, and engineering or research roles in renewable energy and energy-system modelling.