01 / Research
Smart rotor control
My PhD studied trailing-edge flaps and wind turbine control: ways to reduce loads while keeping a turbine productive. That work led to papers on control strategies and fault response.
Read the thesis →Wind, data and open work
From blades to bytes.
I started with the question of how to control a wind turbine. Since then I’ve worked across renewable asset performance, operational data and software. The thread is the same: understand the system, make the evidence useful, and share what can be shared.
Explore the work
Four threads
Research, practical analysis and open collaboration have all shaped how I think about renewable energy.
02 / Open data
Real wind farms, shared openly
I helped release operational data from Kelmarsh and Penmanshiel so more people can test methods, ask questions and learn from real turbines.
Kelmarsh dataset →Penmanshiel dataset →
03 / Practice
Understanding performance
My later work brought engineering, SCADA analysis, energy-yield assessment and portfolio data together. I’ve built dashboards and automated reporting to make operational questions easier to answer.
My current technical practice →04 / Community
Tools we can build together
Open methods improve when people can examine and extend them. I contribute to OpenOA and have worked with WeDoWind on challenges that bring different approaches to shared data.
OpenOA →WeDoWind →
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Research and papers
A selected bibliography, kept here for anyone who wants the technical detail.
- The smart rotor wind turbinePhD thesis · 2015
- Supplementing wind turbine pitch control with a trailing edge flap smart rotorLead author · 2014
- Comparison of individual pitch and smart rotor control strategies for load reductionLead author · 2014
- Fault ride-through for a smart rotor DQ-axis controlled wind turbine with a jammed trailing edge flapLead author · 2014
- Validating wind field models for power system impact studiesLead author · 2012
- Diagnostics and prognostics utilising dynamic Bayesian networks applied to a wind turbine gearboxLead author · 2012
- Comparison of novel SCADA data cleaning technique for wind turbine electric pitch systemCo-author · 2022
- Investigation of isolation forest for wind turbine pitch system condition monitoring using SCADA dataCo-author · 2021