Company Profile
Approaching three decades of service in the industry, AWS Truewind continues to be a leader and innovator in renewable energy consulting. One of the key components to our continued growth and success is our highly skilled, customer-focused staff. The AWS Truewind team consists of approximately 65 meteorologists, engineers, and environmental specialists which are field-oriented and fully conversant with large commercial projects, utility electrical systems, remote field measurements, and distributed applications. This diverse group of professionals is led by a core leadership team consisting of the founding principals, directors and senior staff. These key leaders drive the company to constantly examine processes and establish best practices in an effort to ensure AWS Truewind is consistently delivering powerful solutions.
Principals
Dr. Bruce H. Bailey, CCM, PhD
Dr. Bailey has been involved in the renewable energy and environmental fields since the 1980s and is one of the world’s leading authorities on wind and solar energy applications. He has been the Project Director for hundreds of contracts in the areas of renewable energy technology applications, resource assessment, meteorology, and air quality on behalf of utility, government, and industrial clients. Technology applications include large and distribution scale wind and PV systems; grid-connected, remote, and hybrid designs; offshore wind project planning; and remote sensing. He has performed management and technical services in many areas: site selection, systems integration, engineering analysis, general contracting, due diligence, field measurements, wind flow modeling, wind energy forecasting/scheduling, economic planning, and the validation of value-added benefits. Dr. Bailey is widely published and has made numerous presentations at domestic and international conferences. He was the Program Chair for the AWEA Windpower ’95 Conference and was a U.S. Department of Energy Wind Program Reviewer for several years. He was the co-chair of the September 2006 AWEA Resource Assessment Workshop in Syracuse, NY. He has been a thesis mentor and guest instructor for several universities.
Dr. Michael C. Brower, PhD
Dr. Brower has been involved in the wind energy field since the late 1990s. Early in his career he conducted research and analysis on energy and environmental issues for federal and state governments, private business, and nonprofit organizations. Some major projects include an assessment of energy lending policies for the Inter-American Development Bank; a review of the British experience with electricity privatization for the National Council on Competition; and an assessment of the cost and feasibility of renewable energy targets for the U.S. electricity sector. In his roles as Principal of TrueWind Solutions and subsequently Vice President and Director of Meteorology and Modeling Services for AWS Truewind, Dr. Brower led the development of the MesoMap and SiteWind mapping and micrositing systems and the eWind forecasting system, acted as project lead for wind maps of hundreds of sites and regions around the world, wrote AWS Truewind’s Manual of Procedures for wind resource assessment and energy production studies, and led or participated in assessments of over 15,000 MW of wind energy projects. As Chief Technical Officer, Dr. Brower is responsible for company-wide research and development and technical standards. He participates in all aspects of AWS Truewind’s corporate management, product development and marketing.
Dr. John Zack, PhD
Dr. Zack has been involved with the development and application of physics-based numerical atmospheric modeling systems since the early 1980s. He also has considerable experience in the use of advanced statistical models, such as Artificial Neural Networks, to atmospheric prediction applications. He is an expert in both synoptic and dynamic meteorology and is very accomplished in analyzing model generated data and applying meteorological knowledge to understand and improve atmospheric modeling techniques. He is also a specialist in the application of atmospheric model products to solve industrial requirements. Dr. Zack is now recognized as a leading authority in the application of atmospheric modeling techniques for the purpose of producing wind maps and forecasts for the wind energy industry. He has great expertise in modeling system design and in many programming languages including Fortran, Unix shell scripts, Basic, Pascal and Perl. He has been the principal investigator of several multi-year research projects funded by a diverse mix of federal agencies including the Department of Defense, NASA, the Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce - NOAA. He has also published numerous papers and peer-reviewed journal articles. His vast business experience includes founding and managing all aspects of a small company dedicated to atmospheric modeling applications in a variety of industries. He has several years experience teaching meteorology at both the graduate and undergraduate level.
Directors and Senior Staff
James Adams III, MBA
Mr. Adams, Director of AWS Truewind’s Project Services Department, has been involved in the renewable energy field since the late 1990s. In his current role Mr. Adams is responsible for the company’s client and project management efforts as well as international and domestic business development activities. In addition to management of the project services team and various development activities, Mr. Adams is also managing a number of high-profile wind energy projects both on an international and domestic level for utility, government and industrial clients. Mr. Adams’ understanding of the diverse complexities associated with the development of wind energy projects both domestically and abroad has enabled him to successfully manage projects in China, Thailand, Indonesia and Macedonia, as well as numerous projects throughout the United States including Hawaii. These projects have focused upon initial site identification and feasibility, wind plant layout and design, turbine technology assessment, wind resource assessment, permitting and public acceptance issues and financing aspects of wind project development for both on-site and commercial generation. Application tools include GIS, instrumentation, wind flow modeling, and financial analysis models.
Eric White
Mr. White’s career, which began in the late 1980s, includes a range of activities in the alternative energy, power generation, and aerospace fields. Mr. White leads the Engineering Department at AWS Truewind and brings experience in managing both commercial and government projects. He is leading activities in performance evaluations for operational wind farms, and development of innovative offshore resource assessment platforms. He also manages major portions of the firm’s due diligence and independent engineer’s work on behalf of investors and developers. His background includes operational leadership and development of state-of-the-art wind tunnel laboratories and fuel cell test facilities, technical leadership of product development for fuel cell systems, design and evaluation of steam turbine-generators, as well as various safety and reliability assessments. He is a member of the US Technical Advisory Group for IEC TC88 (Wind Turbines), and the IEC working group for standard 61400-12-3 -Wind Farm Power Performance Testing.
Daniel W. Bernadett, PE
Mr. Bernadett’s career, which began in the late 1980s, includes a broad range of renewable energy applications and disciplines including: wind energy and photovoltaic systems, system design and integration, siting and project development, mechanical and electrical (both AC and DC) subsystems, field installation and data acquisition, maintenance, due diligence, aerodynamics, financial analysis, reporting, and technical training. His career at AWS Truewind began in the early 1990s and since that time Mr. Bernadett has been the project manager for a few thousand megawatts of projects in the U.S. and Canada. This experience encompasses numerous wind and solar technology and resource assessment studies for both domestic and international clients. Mr. Bernadett is a licensed professional engineer in the State of New York.
Michael J. Markus
Mr. Markus has been involved with the application of meteorological measurement and analysis techniques to the renewable energy and air quality fields since the early 1980s including multiple years of experience in atmospheric research and remote sensing for severe storms. His knowledge of the North American wind resource and vast experience with the interpretation of wind flow characteristics over complex terrain and siting of prospective wind power plants makes him a powerful asset to the AWS Truewind team. Mr. Markus has conducted comprehensive wind resource and energy production prediction assessments for hundreds of projects. He has managed numerous meteorological monitoring projects involving site selection, permitting, instrumentation, and data analysis and reporting. In addition, Mr. Markus has experience with wind mapping, GIS and expert system forecasting tools.