European Wind Energy Association

Andrea Hahmann, Senior Scientist, Wind Energy Division, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark

Chair – Session One: Mesoscale Modelling Andrea Hahmann is a senior scientist at the wind energy division of Risø DTU. She has worked with atmospheric mesoscale and climate models for the past 20 years. Before coming to the wind energy field 3 years ago, she worked in research of the influence of land cover to climate and in transport and dispersion problems. She now works on research applied to forecasting wind power through models and in regional wind energy resource assessment.

Daran Rife, Project Scientist II, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

Presenter – Session One: Mesoscale Modelling Daran joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado in 1999, and has held the position of Project Scientist II since October 2009. In his time at NCAR, Daran has been involved in a number of research projects touching on wind energy, including acting as Principal Investigator in the NASA-funded project ‘Wind Energy Prospecting: Using NASA Earth Science Data to Create Improved Regional Wind Power Maps’. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the National Weather Service, and has been Associate Editor of Weather and Forecasting since 2009.

Sami Niemelä, Head of the Numerical Weather Prediction Group, Finnish Meteorological Institute

Presenter – Session One: Mesoscale Modelling Sami Niemelä is Head of the Numerical Weather Prediction Group at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). His particular areas of expertise include high resolution numerical weather prediction models, convection processes and parameterization schemes, as well as radiation processes and parameterization schemes.

Claire Louise Vincent, Post-Doctoral Student, Wind Energy Division, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark

Presenter – Session One: Mesoscale Modelling Claire studied mechanical engineering and applied mathematics the University of Melbourne. She then trained as a meteorologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, and worked, amongst other things, on the application of mesoscale modelling to wind energy applications. From 2008-2010, Claire completed her PhD at the Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy – Technical University of Denmark, where she worked with the predictability of mesoscale wind variability. She is currently a postdoc in the wind energy division of Risø-DTU.

Oisin Brady, Director (France), Natural Power

Chair – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion

Michael Harris, Senior Scientist, Natural Power Consultants Ltd., UK

Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion Michael Harris has contributed to the invention and design of a variety of remote sensing systems including the ZephIR laser anemometer. Until 2008 he was Technical/Team Leader for Remote Sensing at QinetiQ Malvern, U.K. In September 2008 he took up a Senior Scientist role at Natural Power, where he continues to develop laser anemometry for use in the wind energy industry.

Jakob Mann, Research Professor, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark

Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion

Jeremy Bass, Renewable Energy Systems Ltd, RES, UK

Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion

Rémy Parmentier, Product Development Manager, Leosphere, France

Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion Rémy Parmentier is currently Product Development Manager at Leosphere. He has lead the development of the Windcube™ Lidar profiler and actively contributed to the Windcube™ measurement accuracy assessment. He previously worked in R&D in the field of optoelectronics for telecommunication and sensors.

Jens I. Madsen, Principal R&D Engineer, Vattenfall R&D AB, Sweden Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion Dr. Jens Madsen works in the Vattenfall Group’s R&D branch, where he manages the Wind Power and Future Technologies competence unit that focuses on wind power and ocean energy. Jens has nearly two decades of experience with energy-related CFD applications, including wind resource assessment in complex and forested areas. He has been with Vattenfall for three years.

Charlotte Bay Hasager, Senior Scientist, Wind Energy Division, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark

Panellist – Session Two: Remote Sensing Panel Discussion Dr. Charlotte Hasager is M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen, Institute of Geography, specialized is boundary layer meteorology and satellite remote sensing. She has been employed at Risø DTU in the Wind Energy Division since 1993 and visited Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology Department for six months in 1995. She coordinates several research projects and has been involved in EU and other international projects since 1993. She is President of Atmospheric Science Division at EGU 2007-2011, is an expert on offshore winds and is guest-editor of journals Theoretical and Applied Climatology (TAC) and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP).

Christiane Montavon, Senior Consultancy Engineer, ANSYS Ltd UK

Chair – Session Three: Advanced Modelling Dr. Christiane Montavon has been working for ANSYS for the last 12 years, where she is a Senior Consultancy Engineer, currently leading the development of WindModeller. Following a Physics Degree from ETH Zurich, and a MSc in Fluid Dynamics from EPF Lausanne and Ecole Centrale de Lyon, she obtained a PhD from EPF Lausanne for her work on Wind Resource Assessment over Complex Terrain, when she did pioneering research including atmopheric stability in the CFD solver CFX-4.

Peter Stuart, Technical Analyst, Renewable Energy Systems Ltd – RES, UK

Presenter – Session Three: Advanced Modelling

Javier Sanz Rodrigo, Project Manager – Wind Energy Department, National Renewable Energy Centre of Spain (CENER), Spain Presenter – Session Three: Advanced Modelling Dr. Javier Sanz Rodrigo has more than 10 years experience in the wind engineering field with specialization in wind resource assessment. He is an industrial engineer with an MSc in fluid dynamics, from the von Karman Institute, and a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles on Antarctic Wind Engineering. He started his professional career as Wind Resource Analyst working for three years for Gamesa, developing wind farms in Italy and Greece. Then he moved to research, working as Research Engineer at the von Karman Institute for four years, after which he joined CENER, where he works now as Project Manager. He is coordinating the FP7-WAUDIT project and the IEA Task 31 WAKEBENCH on wind farm modeling benchmarks.

Line Gulstad, Manager, Global Flow Solutions, Wind & Site Competence Centre, Vestas Technology R&D

Presenter – Session Three: Advanced Modelling

Rosey Grant, PhD student, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science, University of Leeds Presenter – Session Three: Advanced Modelling Rosey Grant completed a Masters in Physics at the University of Bath in 2005. During her degree she also worked at the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, Switzerland. Here she worked with Dr Michi Lehning, studying the processes involved in the formation of wind slab. In 2006 she began her PhD, studying forest canopy and atmosphere interactions on complex terrain. This work presents a unique observational dataset of air flow measurements from within and above a forest situated on a ridge. She is due to complete in summer 2011.

Andrew Tindal, Head of Energy, Senior Vice President, GL Garrad Hassan, UK

Chair – Session Four: Wakes
Presenter – Session Five: Comparison of Resource and Energy Yield Assessment Procedures Andrew Tindal is a Director of Garrad Hassan and Partners Limited and has worked in wind energy for 19 years. Early in his career Andrew researched the influence of wind turbine wakes on the loading of wind turbines before moving to the fields of wind farm energy prediction, technical due diligence work, and short term forecasting for wind farms. He now has responsibility for the technical aspects of the short term and long term energy production prediction services within Garrad Hassan and the GH WindFarmer wind farm design tool.

Gerard Schepers, Senior Researcher, Rotor and Farm Aerodynamics, ECN Wind Energy – Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands

Presenter: Session Four: Wakes Gerard Schepers works as senior researcher at the unit Wind Energy of the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, ECN. He is working there since 1986 and mainly on the field of aerodynamics. He is the coordinator of IEA Task 29 Mexnext.

Brian Gribben, Fluids Group Leader, Frazer-Nash Consulting Ltd, R&D Project, Carbon Trust, UK

Presenter – Session Four: Wakes Brian Gribben is the Technology Delivery Coordinator for the OWA Wake Effects project. Brian has a background in aerodynamics, CFD and optimisation, most recently as the group leader for aerodynamic design optimisation methods at Airbus before joining Frazer-Nash Consultancy. At Frazer-Nash, Brian leads the Fluids group in the Bristol office.

Marc Calaf Bracons, PhD student, Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

Presenter – Session Four: Wakes After finishing a degree in Physics at University of Barcelona, where he originally comes from, Marc Calaf started his PhD in January 2007 at EPFL (Switzerland) with Prof. Marc Parlange. Shortly after he left for two years to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore/USA) where he worked with Prof. Charles Meneveau. His graduation is scheduled for summer 2011. His work, at the same time numerical and theoretical, focuses on the deep understanding of some of the physical processes taking place in the core of large wind farms.

Wolfgang Schlez, Windfarmer Product Manager, GL Garrad Hassan

Panellist – Session Four: Wakes Dr Wolfgang Schlez joined GL Garrad Hassan in 1998 and has over 20 years experience in wake and wind resource modelling. Recently Wolfgang has led GL Garrad Hassan’s development of the large wind farm wake model and its validation in the UPWIND research project. He holds a master’s degree in physics (Dipl. Phys.) from Oldenburg University, Germany and received a PhD from Loughborough University, United Kingdom for his research into the voltage fluctuations caused by groups of wind turbines.

Mike Anderson, Group Technical Director, Renewable Energy Systems Ltd – RES

Chair – Session Five: Comparison of Resource and Energy Yield Assessment Procedures Dr. Mike Anderson is the Group Technical Director of the Renewable Energy Systems (RES) group, a leading developer, constructor, owner and operator of wind energy projects throughout the world. Following a Physics Degree from Nottingham University he obtained a PhD from Cambridge University for his pioneering work on the theory and practice of wind turbine design. In 1982 he joined Renewable Energy Systems Ltd. He is currently Group Technical Director with specific responsibility for overseeing wind speed assessment, layout design and energy yield analysis along with R&D.

Niels Gylling Mortensen, Senior Scientist, Meteorology Programme, Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark

Presenter – Session Five: Comparison of Resource and Energy Yield Assessment Procedures Niels G. Mortensen works as a senior scientist in the Wind Energy Division at Risø DTU Technical University of Denmark. Niels has been a member of the WAsP development team since 1987 and thus partly responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting the various WAsP program packages for almost 25 years. He acted as editor of the European Wind Atlas (1989) and has further participated in the development of wind atlases for Denmark, Finland, Egypt, Cape Verde, India, and NE China. He currently works on a Wind Atlas for South Africa project.

Gareth Craft, Technology Manager, The Crown Estate, UK

Panellist – Session Four: Wakes

Gerd Habenicht, Senior Technical Manager, RES Group, UK

Panellist – Session Four: Wakes