Rajan C. Thomas, MSME, P.E.

Senior Engineer

I chose Energy Efficiency as my profession nearly four decades ago. One of the challenges in making energy efficiency improvements is that it can be difficult to analyze, measure & track energy & cost savings to justify complicated energy efficiency projects. I have been a part of an Energy Efficiency team helping customers analyze, implement, measure & verify energy & cost savings since the beginning of my career.

Rajan graduated from the University of Calicut, India in 1979 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Though Rajan completed training in Marine Engineering immediately after graduation, he accepted a job with Indian Airlines in the maintenance department as an Aircraft Technician. Rajan migrated to the United States in 1981 after marriage and joined the University of Minnesota for MS in Mechanical Engineering. Rajan graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1983 with MS Mechanical Engineering with Mathematics minor.  Rajan did various non-engineering jobs before joining State of Minnesota’s Energy Conservation department in 1985 as Graduate Engineer 2. State of Minnesota promoted Rajan to Senior Engineer after passing Minnesota Professional Engineering exam and later to Principal Engineer. Rajan accepted the Technical Consultant job with Xcel Energy in 2007, later promoted as Senior Engineer and retired from Xcel on April 4, 2023. Rajan joined Michaels Energy on June 26, 2023, currently works on custom electric and natural gas projects.

Rajan enjoys spending time with wife, children & grandchildren.