Global Technical Support Head - Energy Assessment, Iberdrola Renovables

Biography

Alejandro Abascal is a Senior Meteorology Project Manager and Team Leader in Iberdrola Renewables, where he has been working for the latest 18 years. He is currently the Global Technical Support Head on all matters related to energy resource assessment. He is an expert in atmospheric modelling with extensive experience in wind resource assessment both in onshore and offshore projects. He’s also been leading R&D activities in various topics related to wind resource analysis, offshore wind farms, numerical modelling and operational wind farm data analysis. Nowadays, he is an active member of the working group IEC 61400-15. He studied Physics specializing in Atmospheric Physics and then took university doctoral studies in meteorology. He also has a MSc in wind energy, and multitude of courses related to meteorology, wind flow modelling, statistics, scientific programming, etc.