Technical Director, RES

Biography

Peter Stuart works as Group Technical for RES. He has fifteen years’ of experience in the wind industry covering a wide range of areas, including wind turbine siting using computational fluid dynamics, wind flow and wake modelling, long-term wind climate predictions, software development, energy yield modelling, power curves and post-construction analysis of operational wind farms. Peter graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2002 with a 1st class degree in Computational Physics for which he was awarded a Gold medal for academic excellence. The same year he was also awarded the Earnshaw medal for the best undergraduate physics dissertation in Ireland. Peter co-ordinated the Power Curve Working Group from its inception in 2012 until 2016. Peter is dedicated to delivering technical innovation to reduce the cost of wind energy and places particular emphasis on the value of inter-organisational collaboration.