Key Contacts

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.

Jonathan is a Principal Consultant and Grid Connections Lead with 10 years’ experience working as an electrical engineer and grid connection specialist. 

Jonathan has experience managing the design and delivery of grid connection work packages on both the distribution and transmission network for onshore wind, solar PV, large biomass and battery energy storage projects across the UK. Since he joined TNEI Jonathan has worked with and provided support to offshore wind and island wind developers.

He has also coordinated the delivery of Contestable Works for embedded generators. He has significant experience in power systems analysis specifically providing power quality grid compliance studies (P28 &Harmonics).

Jonathan has good communication skills and has provided technical, commercial and regulatory advice to clients. He has significant project management experience, and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

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.

Rashid is an electrical engineer with over 16 years professional experience in working in the field of power systems both in the UK and Internationally.

He has been involved with power system studies including load flow, fault level analysis, harmonic studies, P28 and reactive power capability studies for a number of wind farms and solar parks. He also has experience of carrying out fault-ride through and dynamic reactive power and voltage control studies for a number of onshore and offshore wind farms using DigSilent and PSSe.

Gemma is an IEMA Associate and has worked in the sector since 2014. She has supported the production and delivery of Environmental Statements, Environmental Reports and Environmental Appraisal documentation for onshore commercial projects, and offshore renewable energy projects.

Her experience in both areas has enabled Gemma to develop a broad understanding of onshore and offshore consenting regimes. 

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).

Francesco is Senior Software Engineer at TNEI. He is a nuclear and energy engineer with 7 years of experience in the simulation field, including a 3-year PhD on safety simulation and development of nuclear reactor codes. He has a broad experience in research and development of complex multi-physics codes as well as testing and maintenance of large simulation tools.

He has a strong mathematical modelling and software development background, a special eye for multi-physics problems, good problem-solving skills and analytical thinking power.

Sarah is primarily focused on the statistical modelling and analysis of power systems. Her academic background includes engineering, statistics and operational research, and her research has combined elements of each discipline to investigate a variety of power and energy systems problems.

Sarah has also spent time working in policy, undertaking a secondment to the Cabinet Office to work on academic collaborations with policy makers for data science projects within government.

Lauren has experience modelling electrical systems both large and small scale. She also has an appreciation of the compliance requirements of a number of different grid codes.

Lauren also has a background in EHV system design and generation impact assessments. In additional to Lauren’s power system modelling and analysis experience, she has been involved in a number of innovation projects assessing the feasibility of emerging technology such as Green Hydrogen, Offshore MVDC arrays and the electrification of vessels

Kevin has been involved in network planning projects through secondment with Scottish Power Distribution as well as a number of business plan assurance work with a transmission operator.

His key experience includes fault level and load flow analysis of connecting generators, fault level studies of distribution networks, distribution network modelling using DigSilent and business plan assurance. 

Anrich is an electrical engineer specialising in the field of power systems. He holds a Bachelor’s (BEng) degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and a Master’s (MEng) degree (Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering. He is registered as a PrEng Candidate with ECSA and is also a SAIEE member.

His knowledge areas span the fields of power generation, transmission and distribution, with a specialised focus in the renewable energy domain. Anrich pursued his Master’s degree in alignment with his passion for renewables and the grid integration thereof. His work has led to the publication of multiple conference papers. He has previous working experience as a consultant and has served multiple South African municipal power utilities as clients. He is proud to be joined with the team of power systems experts at TNEI in providing specialist energy consulting services to the international renewable and conventional energy sectors.

Alex is involved in grid connections projects, regularly advising developers on grid connection strategies, and project construction timescales and costs for both distribution and transmission connections. 

She has worked on a number of capacity searches across DNO areas, covering different technologies and connection capacities. She often liaises with DNOs and NGET to help progress projects and has helped clients with connection applications.

Her focus has primarily been on onshore wind but she has worked on solar, battery storage, marine energy and EV projects.

Obinna is involved in various power system studies including load flow, short circuit, P28 power quality (transformer inrush, voltage step change, flicker) reactive capability, network capability assessment, wind farm constraint analysis and calculating network use charges for distribution companies.

He also has expertise in scripting in multiple languages for automation of power system studies, and therefore is involved in developing and adapting software tools for more complex power system studies. Obinna holds a PhD in Power Systems Engineering.