Engineering, procurement, contracting and management of the offshore wind projects

Janusz covers trade for energy and mining sectors in the Department for International Trade, based in British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.

Michal is a Senior Trade Manager responsible for Poland and Baltics at Scottish Development International based in British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.

Alan Mortimer graduated from Glasgow University in 1987 with an Honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering. After four years at James Howden & Co. Ltd. in Glasgow, Alan joined ScottishPower, working in renewables development. His roles included Head of Wind Development where he developed the strategy for, and helped establish a 1,000MW onshore wind portfolio. In subsequent roles Alan was responsible for managing policy and strategic issues whilst maintaining responsibility for identifying new business opportunities in renewables, including SPR’s role in technology development programmes such as the Offshore Wind Accelerator, and marine renewables. Alan joined Wood Renewables in 2013 as Director of Innovation where his current role involves extending the company’s renewable energy activities in onshore wind, offshore wind (fixed and floating), solar, wave, tidal, hydrogen, heat and transport. His responsibilities also include developing and deploying the considerable resources of the Wood organisation on key decarbonisation challenges for all forms of energy.

A proactive, creative and collaborative specialist in management systems, large EPC projects and strategic quality programmes. 25 years of experience designing, implementing, integrating and improving management systems and quality programmes.

As Principal Consultant and Director of Sandaig Engineering, our mission has been to deliver “Tailored QA/QC consultancy services to the oil, gas and renewables industries”.

Familiar with the needs and expectations of business sectors from energy to engineering, design to distribution working and living in Europe, The Americas, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The first half of his career was spent working within QA/QC, engineering and supply chain in the electronics and dot com industry living and working in USA (Seattle and San Jose) and South East Asia. The second half of Robbie’s career has been in management positions within Energy service companies and operators based in Aberdeen but working globally.

An honours graduate in Manufacturing Engineering Robbie also holds an MSc in Quality Management both from the University of Paisley (1996). Robbie has significant experience working in all areas of Quality Assurance and Quality Control for over 25 years. He is an IRCA qualified lead auditor, a TickIT software auditor, holds the CQP MCQI accreditation and has held the Project Management Institute Project Management Professional (PMP) accreditation since 2007.

Rhona Fairgrieve is a Principal Environmental Consultant with Atkins, a global engineering company. She is currently working on the UK’s decarbonisation agenda and Floating Offshore Wind projects but has spent much of her career working with stakeholders, ensuring that there is good communication between those with an interest in how marine and coastal resources are used, planned for and managed. [In 2013, she was seconded from the Scottish Government to the European Commission to be part of the team that negotiated the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive, intended as a way of delivering sustainable development across economic, social and environmental aspects at local, regional, national and international levels. She has recently co-moderated the international 4th Baltic MSP Forum on behalf of the Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Łukasz Sikorski is the Country Manager of OWC in Poland. He is a MBA graduate and an engineer with a humanist soul, with almost 15 years of experience within the wind industry. Engaged in providing variety of services related to the project development and implementation, both on land and on sea. This includes tasks like the feasibility studies or technical reviews of the wind farms, due diligence processes for the projects’ financing or acquisition purposes, risk evaluations and assessments or advisory helping understood energy sector and local specifics. For offshore wind business Łukasz was engaged, among the others, in the project management and quality assurance activities, co-authored design specifications, tender documentation and project development management procedures, managed the delivery of the advisory and supervision services for wind measurements campaigns and project development activities, while also worked on the risk management and mitigation issues. Currently is actively delivering the advisory services to the Polish projects being at various development stages and providing support to some other developments within the global offshore market.

Łukasz was also engaged in the development of the Polish offshore wind sector, including regulatory guidance while taking active part in the branch work groups and cooperating closely with the market stakeholders. Having special interest in the cost reduction issues and place of the offshore wind in the future energy mix provided variety of thought leadership materials in form of articles, workshops, presentations and discussion panels.

Łukasz Sikorski leads as the country manager the Polish office of Offshore Wind Consultants in Warsaw which provides consultancy services to developers of and investors into offshore wind projects for their full life cycle. Prior to joining OWC, Łukasz led an advisory team at one of the technical consultancies providing engineering advice to the renewables sector, but also worked for a leading global developer constructing some of the major wind farms in Poland.

Janusz covers trade for energy and mining sectors in the Department for International Trade, based in British Embassy in Warsaw, Poland.