Edward Ridgway has joined the YOUWINd model team as a Partner. Edward brings in substantial experience from engineering project management for the energy industry. Edward has over the last years worked in optimising the wind turbine package within development projects heading towards the bidding stage. For example Borssele 1 and 2, Changhua 1 and 2 (900MW recently allocated), and other international projects for industry leader Ørsted (previously DONG Energy). Edward is currently working as a consultant for the main players in offshore wind energy. Before that he spent four years working in Siemens offshore wind, firstly as Technical Project Manager then Technical Sales Manager, leading sales bids for large offshore wind farms worth upwards of 500 mEUR. He also worked in wave energy as a project manager, and senior engineer installing the world’s first offshore wave energy farm in Portugal, and working with another start-up company to obtain investment and funding for a new type of wave energy device. We are thrilled to continue working with Edward in development projects in offshore wind all over the world.