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.  

Muhammad is a power system engineer with over nine years of experience. He has been involved with power system studies including load flow, fault level, P28 power quality (transformer inrush, flicker, voltage step change), harmonics, fault-ride through, dynamic reactive power and voltage control, load rejection and frequency control studies for a number of onshore and offshore wind farms.

His varied professional experience includes performing electrical studies on industrial and renewable projects, and calculating network use charges for distribution companies.

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.

Dr Andrew Oliver’s core skills are in power systems analysis and developing tools to perform complex studies using Python, with over 10 years of experience.

He has more than ten years of experience including load flow, fault level, harmonics, filter design, reactive power, transient analysis and network planning studies amongst others. Since joining TNEI in early 2009 Andrew has been involved in varied projects including studies for wind farms (on and offshore), PV connections and for transmission and distribution network operators.

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. 

Zoë has a utilities background in generation and distribution, totalling 12 years. Zoë is able to draw on plant operations and asset management experience, as well as network planning, power systems analysis and generation integration.

With a passion for renewable energy and a post graduate qualification in sustainable energy systems, Zoë has been closely involved in South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme and has experience in strategic and optimal grid integration of renewable generation at all voltage levels. 

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.

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. 

Chris is a Chartered Engineer, with 40 years experience in the electrical power industry, initially for 10 years with a large generator manufacturer, then including design of power station electrical distribution systems. He has particular experience in the design and setting calculation for power station and industrial protection systems and providing support for site commissioning teams. He is also experienced in the design of underground earthing systems for substations and other electrical installations using CDEGS software.

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).

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.

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.

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

Dr Mohamed Galeela is a Technical Consultant within the Networks & Innovation Team and has a 5 years of experience in electric power system research with main interest in reliability and resilience analysis of renewable rich power systems. Mohamed has a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester. The focus of his PhD was on advancing the current modelling of smart grid technologies from demand response (DR), OHL flexible ratings and Battery energy storage systems (BESS) to improve their impact on transmission network reliability.

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.

Sarah has an MPhys in Physics from the University of Durham and is based in TNEI’s Glasgow office. Here she helps to support project developers, working with a range of renewable technologies. Sarah has a strong Physics background to underpin her knowledge and has a working understanding of Smart Local Energy Systems. She has excellent report writing skills and is proficient in data analysis and graphing. Sarah is also well practiced in communicating and presenting technical information. 

Alex is primarily involved in wind farm noise projects at all stages of development; from initial feasibility assessments, baseline surveys to impact assessments. Some of the work he does involves site assessments, layout design, and noise and shadow flicker assessments.

He has an MEng in Mechanical Engineering and is currently in the writing up phase for a PhD in Acoustics. He has several publications on the use of Helmholtz resonators for sound absorption and their implementation within acoustic metamaterials.