Gokarna Dhungel was a student assistant in the Research Unit Off-Grid Systems at RLI from February 2022 to July 2022. At that time, he was enrolled in the M.Eng. Renewable Energy Systems program at the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences.
In context of his work for the PeopleSun project, Gokarna supported the team in developing a demand modelling tool based on an existing Python based open-source tool RAMP that will create typical load profiles for different consumer types.

Gokarna holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the Tribhuvan University of Nepal. Apart from his work at RLI, he was also involved in a project at Nordhausen University. In the “Energy Atlas project for Moluccan Islands, Indonesia”, he was supporting the team by analyzing the techno-economic feasibility of integration of high share of renewable sources in the pre-dominantly fossil-fuels based electricity supply system of Ambon city.