Key Contacts

Laura is a Chartered engineer with 26 years of experience in the industry and academia with 6 years as a renewable energy systems consultant at Narec (now the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult) and 5 years as Technical Programme Manager for the EPSRC National Centre for Energy Systems Integration. Her expertise is within energy system policy, planning, renewable energy systems design and future energy systems including integrated networks. Laura is investigating the role of hydrogen within the energy and transport sectors and sits on the ENA Gas Goes Green Advisory Board and the Northern Gas Networks Customer Engagement Group.

Steve leads the Offshore Renewables work at TNEI and has exceptional experience in large projects and offshore wind.

He a Chartered Electrical Engineer with over 25 years experience in the design, installation and commissioning of projects within the power industry and has a broad range of experience in power systems studies, grid code compliance, technical strategy and project management for the power sector, including offshore transmission and offshore wind. 

Tan has over 15 years professional experience in both power system consultancy and software development.

He is experienced in power system analysis including load flow, fault level, power quality, harmonic and dynamic studies for various onshore renewable generations.

He is also expertise in undertaking other specialised studies such as wind farm constraint analysis, generation planning and distribution pricing. He is also involved in developing custom software to perform more complex studies e.g. planning tools for DNOs), wind farm annual curtailment and generation incremental transfer capability studies.  

James works within the Environment & Engineering team providing clients with the advice and support needed to take their project from conception through to construction. Skills within the team include Environmental expertise, Planning, EIA coordination, GIS, Grid Connections, Electrical engineering, Civil Engineering and Health and Safety advice.

James is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Certified Member of the APS, with extensive experience in the energy sector. His career started in the energy sector in 2004 delivering civil, structural designs and geotechnical investigations for onshore wind projects, as well as acting as Owner’s Engineer and Bank’s Engineer.

James later managed a dedicated design team providing input into EIAs, discharging planning conditions, preparing detailed designs, site verifications and defective works investigations. James’ work included the repowering of 2 UK wind projects, technical due diligence across several countries and assisting a Transmission and Distribution contractor develop their Balance of Plant offering to the UK wind market.

In 2014 James joined TNEI where he has applied his skills to support developers on a range of energy projects including onshore and offshore wind, solar, battery storage, STOR, hydrogen, EVs and electricity transmission. 

Gordon leads the delivery of projects relating to electricity strategy and regulation. He has a good technical overview of the network planning and system operation challenges facing the energy industry, particularly in GB and Ireland, and regularly advises generation clients on strategies for getting connected to the grid.

He has a strong technical background in power systems analysis and power systems modelling and a good understanding of wholesale energy markets, ancillary service markets and network regulation, with a particular focus on use of system charging.

Etienne is a Principal Consultant employed by TNEI Africa since 2017 and is based in the Cape Town office in South Africa.

Etienne has a BEng (electrical and Electronic) degree from the University of Stellenbosch and has 10 years working experience in the power generation industry.

Etienne previously worked for the South African utility, Eskom for 5 years and AECOM one of the largest multi-disciplinary engineering firms for 3 years. 

Gemma has over 14 years’ experience working in the Environmental Consultancy Sector. Since joining TNEI in 2007, Gemma has primarily worked on wind farm noise projects.

She has been involved with all stages of development for initial feasibility assessments, base-line surveys, impact assessments through to assisting with collating information for Appeals and compliance monitoring.  

Gruffudd is a data scientist with considerable experience in mining, analysing, interpreting, predicting and visualising data. His academic background spans statistics, electrical engineering and physics, and his research has often bridged these disciplines.

This includes a PhD on the development of advanced time series models to reproduce the dynamics of wind resource availability on multiple spatial and temporal scales. He has strong expertise in stochastic power system modelling and the application of operational research methods to power system problems.

Gordon has eight years’ experience working in the fields of power systems, power electronics, and renewables. 

Gordons’ work at TNEI is primarily focused on the design and grid integration of innovative network projects such as; electrical vehicles, battery storage, and marine renewables. 

Since achieving his PhD Gordon has worked in renewables and innovation; specialising in the power systems and conversion technology of solar farms, wind farms, offshore wind farms, as well as battery storage, hydro, tidal, and wave projects.

Jean-Louis has a broad range of experience in power systems studies including grid code compliance, insulation coordination and transient recovery voltage study.

Prior to joining TNEI, he spent more than twenty years professional experience in Electrical engineering including with ALSTOM, AREVA T&D and ALSTOM Grid where he held the position of Principal Research Technologist and gained the title Senior Expert in Power System and Electrical Machines. 

David has 10 years experience within the energy sector from having worked for an energy organisation both in Southern Africa and in the United Kingdom.

His unique experiences in engineering design, installation and commissioning of projects, have afforded him the opportunity to enable practicable, technical and innovative solutions within the electrical distribution and power engineering discipline. 

Rieghard is an electrical engineer with 10 years’ experience in the electrical utility and renewable energy consulting industry. He spent 7.5 years working for the South African utility, Eskom Distribution’s Operations and Maintenance department where he fulfilled various engineering and management roles. He was involved in initiating and implementing various maintenance and network improvement projects, network analysis, fault investigations, technical audits, compliance management and establishing and managing maintenance contracts. Rieghard also has more than 2 years’ experience performing and overseeing multidisciplinary owner’s engineering, technical due diligence and design services for renewable energy clients, including developers, investors and EPC Contractors across Sub-Saharan Africa and Australia. Rieghard is a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa and holds B.Eng and PhD(Eng) degrees in Electrical Engineering and an Electrical Engineer’s Government Certificate of Competency (Factories).

Derek has over 4 years of technical experience primarily within the Transmission and Distribution sectors, but encompassing other industries such as water and oil and gas (O&G). Derek has specialist experience in the design and specification of HV substations. He has also worked on innovative projects developing novel solutions for the electrification and connection of O&G platforms to mainland utilising his knowledge of HVAC and HVDC transmission techniques. He has also contributed his expertise to a number of successful NIA and NIC projects. Derek specialises in advisory and regulatory projects, including reviews for RIIO-T2 and audits into low performance on behalf of Ofgem, as well as DNO business plan support for RIIO-ED2.

Mark has a proven track record of Network Modelling and since joining TNEI has become proficient at using DIgSILENT PowerFactory.

In addition to Mark’s power system modelling experience he has also been involved in a wide variety of innovation projects.

His most recent projects have allowed him to research area’s such as Blackstart via distributed energy resources (DER); the impact of high penetration renewable energy integration onto the electricity network and the use of non-synchronous renewable generation for ancillary services.

Max is primarily focused on mathematical modelling and data analysis. Max has developed a wide range of subsequent skills to contextualise and convey the impact of the subject under analysis through various mediums.

This is enveloped by his experience in full-stack development, providing a foundation to design and launch interactive and intuitive means of data visualisation. 

Ewan joined TNEI in August 2016. Since graduating from his academic studies and joining TNEI, Ewan has specialised in Environmental Acoustics work but has also drawn on a range of environmental and engineering experiences including environmental impact assessments, site finding and feasibility assessments and GIS mapping.

Ewan has worked on projects in sectors including onshore wind, offshore wind, oil & gas, residential, port services, conventional energy and low carbon transport.   

Hugh is a Technical Consultant having joined TNEI in March 2021 and provides technical advice to clients on energy related projects. Hugh holds a MEng in Civil & Transportation Engineering. Prior to joining TNEI, Hugh gained experience in the Construction & Civil Engineering sectors. Over Hugh’s 10 years in the Construction & Civil Engineering industries he has gained substantial site-based experience in construction management, project coordination, health & safety management, quality control and commercial management. Hugh has worked on some big projects over Scotland and Northern England, including as a construction site manager on a 22.5MW onshore wind farm and as a package engineer on the conversion of a coal fired power station to biomass.

Jack has experience in GIS and CAD, producing figures and plans for a range of projects for submission as part of planning applications, including onshore wind, offshore wind, gas peaking plants, battery storage, solar and electric vehicle charging.

He has conducted a number of site finding and feasibility assessments, as well as inputting into Environmental Impact Assessments

Colum is a graduate technical consultant for TNEI Ireland with 1 years experience working on noise related assessments. Colum holds a Bachelors of Science in Geographical Planning & Environmental Policy and a Masters in Environmental Engineering.

For a given project, Colum will become involved during feasibility assessments, baseline surveys, impact assessments, in addition to compliance and complaints investigations. Since joining TNEI, Colum has primarily worked on wind farm noise projects (specifically site assessment, layout design, and noise and shadow flicker assessments), and his role involves the development of noise models, and the analysis of operational turbine data during compliance exercises. The purpose of this is to better understand the conditions in which noise is an issue.

Kaviya Sivaraman is a Power System Software Engineer working for the IPSA Software Team.She has over 2+ years of professional work experience in Java Development followed by six years of Academics Experience in the field of Power Systems and Smart Grids with a good understanding of the European Energy Markets. She also has significant experience working with developing tool kits and software required for Power System Engineering Domain.