Wind Energy Specialist Senior Consultant Wind & Site

4/1997 – 3/2004

The Wind & Site at NEG Micon – was the classical concept, with focus on identifying wind farm areas and development of these, identifying the wind potential, micro siting and calculating Energy Yields. This job offered tasks concerning terrain complexities ranking from low to very high and wind conditions from offshore, cost, mountain, dessert, monsoon, forest, jungle, island and typhoon. I have experience on both onshore and offshore.


Areas of responsibility:
• Wind Turbine performance
• Site Hunt and Site development – projects from the Greenfield
• Wind Data Analysis
• Wind Resource Analysis
• Site Assessments regarding Wind Farm Suitability
• Normal- and Extreme Climatic Wind Condition calculations (gust, turbulence intensity, wind flow, shear, etc.) using WAsP, WAsPEngineering, WAT (Risoe), WindPro (EMD) and other software.
• Micro siting (optimal wind farm layout based on terrain, wind condition, wind turbine type approval conditions, production, noise & shadow, turbine life time, OPEX).
• Annual Energy Production calculation (using WAsP (Risø, Denmark) and WindPro (EMD, Denmark) software).
• Loss and Uncertainty calculation (P50, P75, P95, Pxx)
• Responsible for design and handling of On-site Wind Measurement Campaigns (identifying mast locations, define met mast equipment, ordering equipment, erecting and installing mast(s), data analysis, quality check, reporting, etc.).
• Education of “wind people” in house and subsidiary companies (NEG Micon).
• Participation in Wind & Site research projects and frequent contact with different relevant institutes such as Risø (Denmark), EMD (Denmark), Danish Maritime Institute (Denmark), DEWI (Germany), G&H (UK and Australia).

Results achieved:
• Received very positive feedback from clients
• Financial value for NEG Micon and for the clients

Windkraft

4/1995 – 3/1997

Project manager in the wind farm project tender/proposal group with responsibility for the technical part and related wind farm production estimates.

Areas of responsibility:
• Wind Turbine Documentation
• Wind Turbine Certificates
• Wind Turbine component sub-contractor quality documentation
• Wind Farm Energy Production estimates

Results achieved:
• Created information system in order to communicate my areas of responsibility to sub-contractors and others

Windkraft

4/1994 – 3/1995

Areas of responsibility:
• Project Manager – delivering, erection and start up for projects in Germany and Peru
• Link between R&D and sales
• Project Engineer – responsible for the technical part in project tenders, drawing up technical handbooks and sale materials, supporting sales persons
Results achieved:
• Project management within contract terms
• Winning projects
• Project finalizing within schedule

Windkraft

3/1992 – 3/1994

Areas of responsibility:
- O&M in Germany
- Responsibility for service, maintenance and turbine performance in Germany
- Coordinator for transport, installations and turbine start-up of Wind Farms in Germany

Result achieved:
• Establishing Trouble Shouter system in Germany
• Cooperation with the German authorities concerning all aspects of the German approval of Micon A/S’ WTG`s

Windkraftanlagenbau

10/1990 – 3/1992

Areas of responsibility:
• Wind Turbine design approval in Germany (tower, nacelle)
• Participation in drawing up sales handbooks, manuals and service books for the German market

Engineering data management (EDM)