NEW ZEALAND WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The NZWEA Board is responsible for the governance and overall performance of NZWEA’s activities, as defined in the NZWEA Rules. The Chief Executive has overall responsibility for developing and delivering NZWEA’s strategy and business plan and reports directly to the NZWEA Board.
Directors are elected at NZWEA’s Annual General Meeting and serve two-year terms, unless they are ‘Additional Directors’, who are appointed for one-year terms. The Association holds its Annual General Meeting annually, typically in late October or early November of each year.
The Board structure is designed to represent the entire membership in a fair and unbiased manner. The Board consists of:
- Five directors from all Corporate Members, appointed for two-year terms by all of the Corporate Members.
- Three directors appointed for two-year terms by all of the Associate and Individual Members, and
- Up to two Additional Directors can be appointed for ‘one-year’ terms at the discretion of the Board.
The Chair can be selected from the current Board members by majority vote, or the Board can elect to appoint an independent Chair.
Chair
Peter is General Manager of Beca’s Power and Renewable Energy business across Australasia. Peter is an experienced electrical engineer and has been the Project Director on numerous wind farms for his clients. These have ranged from early works including consenting and AEE development through to construction and connection of wind farms to the grid.
He has 30 years’ experience in the Power Industry. After completing his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1991, Peter joined Westinghouse Systems in the UK. Until 2002 he worked for a number of Power companies living and working in the UK, The Netherlands, The Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 2002 he moved to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife Kate and joined Beca.
Since then, Peter has worked in the renewable energy sector. Meridian Energy’s Te Apiti 90 MW Wind Farm was the first wind farm project he worked on. It was the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere at the time (2004). Since then, Peter has worked on numerous wind farms in New Zealand and Australia.
Peter has been a Director of NZWEA since 2016 and is passionate about the ongoing growth and development of the wind industry.
Corporate Member Directors
Chris More is a senior manager with Meridian Energy responsible for operating 7 wind farms in NZ and Australia and developing new wind farms in NZ.
He is a professional manager backed with engineering and business qualifications and has worked in the NZ electricity industry for 26 years.
Prior to working in wind, Chris has also worked in hydro operations, market economic analysis, retail pricing and wholesale market development. Responsibilities included developing and positioning Meridian with respect to changes and improvements in the wholesale physical and forward financial markets.
Chris has a Master of Business Administration, Technology Management from Deakin University and a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury.
He has been Meridian’s representative on the NZWEA board since September 2018.
Peter is a New Zealander who started in the industry in 2007 at the specialist Dutch engineering firm, ISC Consulting Engineers. Over the following 15 years Peter worked on delivery of key infrastructure including offshore substations and WTG foundations. To date, Peter has undertaken detailed design on 28 offshore wind farms installed around the world, with a capacity exceeding 13GW.
Peter was appointed by Parkwind as a country manager for New Zealand, and is working hard with the ambition to bring 500MW to 1GW of offshore wind to the country by 2032. Peter is also supporting Parkwind’s development activities in Australia.
Matt is an infrastructure professional with twenty years experience developing large infrastructure and renewable energy projects in the US and NZ. Matt is Mercury’s Executive General Manager Generation Development, where he is responsible for Mercury’s growth in renewable generation – including wind, solar and battery.
Jim has over 30 years of project management experience in the energy industry (renewables and oil & gas).
Over the past 18 years he has been heavily involved in the New Zealand and Australian wind sector from scoping, through to consenting, procurement, construction and commissioning. He has an extensive track record in project delivery (wind and hydro) and is a project management expert (PMI Project Management Professional).
In the New Zealand and Australian market Jim has been involved in the construction of over NZ$1 billion of wind sector assets in the past 12 years.
Tim is a Lead Engineer and Team Lead in the Renewables team at Aurecon, based in Auckland. As an Electrical Engineer and an APM PMQ accredited Project Manager, Tim has over 9 years’ experience in the renewable energy industry, working on projects across New Zealand, Australia, UK, Europe, Africa and Vietnam.
Prior to joining the team at Aurecon, Tim was a Senior Project Manager and Team Lead at Mott MacDonald in the UK, managing projects in the UK, Ireland, Europe and Africa.
Tim has experience working on a range of technologies, supporting developers, asset owners and lenders from preconstruction through to commercial operation, with significant experience in the project management and delivery of Owners Engineer, Technical Advisor and Due Diligence projects. He has contributed to the delivery of over 1.2GW of now operational onshore wind projects and supported on due diligence and feasibility exercises on a further 5GW of renewables projects.
Applying his skills and expertise in onshore and offshore wind development and construction, Tim is excited to support the New Zealand Wind Energy Association as a Board Director and further contribute to the decarbonisation of New Zealand’s energy system.
Associate and Individual Member Directors
Peter is General Manager of Beca’s Power and Renewable Energy business across Australasia. Peter is an experienced electrical engineer and has been the Project Director on numerous wind farms for his clients. These have ranged from early works including consenting and AEE development through to construction and connection of wind farms to the grid.
He has 30 years’ experience in the Power Industry. After completing his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1991, Peter joined Westinghouse Systems in the UK. Until 2002 he worked for a number of Power companies living and working in the UK, The Netherlands, The Middle East and Southeast Asia. In 2002 he moved to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife Kate and joined Beca.
Since then, Peter has worked in the renewable energy sector. Meridian Energy’s Te Apiti 90 MW Wind Farm was the first wind farm project he worked on. It was the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere at the time (2004). Since then, Peter has worked on numerous wind farms in New Zealand and Australia.
Peter has been a Director of NZWEA since 2016 and is passionate about the ongoing growth and development of the wind industry.
Alistair has over 20 years’ experience in heavy industrial engineering, project development and delivery in New Zealand, Australia and Indonesia. Alistair’s project experience has been largely in the pulp and paper, steel, mining, chemicals and manufacturing sectors, all of which are large power consumers and are now looking to decarbonise their supply chain and actively looking to access large scale renewable electricity.
Alistair is currently Principal Engineer at Hiringa Energy. Hiringa are using Green Hydrogen as a vector to decarbonise sectors such as heavy transport industrial feedstock which are otherwise difficult to decarbonise. They are developing several projects that couple green hydrogen and green ammonia production facilities to utility scale renewable generation including wind farms in New Zealand and Australia and includes three separate wind farms in New Zealand. Hiringa believe the flexibility of green hydrogen production will play a significant role in balancing the volatility and excess generation associated with renewable energy and can help unlock constrained generation assets. Alistair brings the viewpoint of large variable load consumers as well as private wind farm development.
Paul has worked in the wind energy industry for a continuous period of 28 years. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Mechanical Engineering degree and Masters in Energy Studies, which had a focus on renewable energy generation. He worked in the UK for both a wind turbine manufacturer and wind farm developer before moving to New Zealand in 1994.
In New Zealand he has worked for a number of consultants and most recently, 15 years at Meridian Energy. He then setup Roaring40s together with Graeme Mills and Steve Harding with a focus on assisting new wind farm developments in New Zealand.
He has previously been a NZWEA board member (Meridian representative) and was the NZWEA representative on the New Zealand Standards Committee responsible for the wind farm noise standard.
Paul is a member of both the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) and is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer.
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