Tej Gidda

Principal / Global Leader for Future Energy

Tej is a Principal with GHD with more than 16 years of industry experience. He is currently GHD’s Global Leader for Future Energy, focusing the firm’s efforts on the transition in energy systems towards a lower-carbon future. This includes hydrogen, renewable natural gas, traditional renewables, energy from waste, energy security and planning, and system integration including energy storage systems. He has significant engagement in the alternative waste processing space, with focus on biological treatment of organics, such as composting and anaerobic digestion. He also works in biosolids processing.

Tej has worked on mixed waste processing, thermal treatment such as gasification and pyrolysis, and ancillary systems such as odor control and wastewater treatment. He is heavily involved in the area of biogas utilization including renewable natural gas production and has experience with cogeneration systems. Tej has been involved in full project life cycles, from feasibility studies through preliminary and detailed design, contract administration and site inspection, warranty support and operational support. He has worked in both an owner’s engineer capacity for municipal infrastructure development of waste/energy infrastructure, and on design-build contracts providing design for the main contractor. Tej further has extensive experience in greenhouse gas quantification and life cycle analysis, as well as landfill gas and soil gas mitigation systems and design.