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.

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. 

Jason has 11 years’ experience in the environmental consultancy sector working on Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Safeguarding and Environmental Due Diligence projects for energy related developments of varying scales.

Jason has extensive experience of coordinating Environmental Impact Assessments, technical review of a range of environmental assessments, production and review of Environmental Statements and consenting documents and undertaking a range of topic specific assessments. 

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.

Kailash has 10 years experience in power systems engineering consultancy, and has gained knowledge of engineering practices and economic principles, design details, utility grid codes and international standards.

He has extensive experience in working with Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution utilities, Oil & Gas Companies, Wind Farm/PV Solar plant developers and heavy industries.

He has experience in performing network planning studies, grid connection of wind/PV Solar plants, failure investigation and power system expansion studies. 

Vijay is a senior consultant with over 10 years’ experience in the power sector. His experience includes network compliance studies, industrial studies and project management.

At TNEI Vijay has managed a vast number of renewable & conventional generations, Oil & Gas, STOR & battery storage sites and metro station projects.

His professional experience includes various power systems analysis studies- load flow, short circuit, transient stability, protection coordination, harmonics, arc flash studies.

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. 

Diptargha specialises in modelling and analysis of transmission and distribution networks. His core expertise includes power system stability analysis, grid integration of renewable energy and dynamic demand response.

He has a strong academic background coupled with good understanding of new concepts in power networks e.g. microgrids, active network management, dynamic frequency support, point-of-load voltage control. 

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. 

Matthew provides GIS support across the business including site finding analysis, feasibility assessments and constraints mapping. Matthew has undertaken a number of energy infrastructure studies utilising GIS in order to assess the technical, planning and environmental feasibility of capacity and siting options for a range of technologies.

He also undertakes site finding & feasibility assessments for potential energy developments and infrastructure including detailed constraints mapping. This includes facilitating the mapping and graphics requirements for reporting, project decision making and optimisation of site design.

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.  

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.

At TNEI, Jeganathan is involved in various types of power system studies such as load flow, short circuit and reactive power capability studies, insulation coordination, assessments of fault-ride-through compliance, transient stability, harmonic compliance, inrush and voltage quality compliance, fault infeed study for Schedule 14 DRC code, network capability (steady state capacity and dynamic stability) assessment under contingencies, grid feasibility studies, power flow analysis in LV unbalanced networks and also provides grid connection application support for transmission/distributed connected generator developments. 

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.   

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.

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.