Axel Andreä

Consulting and engineering services for wind energy projects

• Team Leader of the Competence Centre Wind Energy and the Technical Office Wind Energy in Hamburg • Head of Department Wind Energy for the Technical Office Wind Energy with focus on Project Certification of Offshore Wind Farms • Budget responsibility for the German wind energy activities

• Peru: Performance of the seminar “Proyectos de Energía Eólica para la Generación de Electricidad“ (Wind Energy Projects for Generation of Electricity) at the ‚Universidad Católica de Santa María‘, Arequipa. • Colombia: Preparation of the seminar “Energía Eólica – Tecnología, Economía, Retos“ (Wind Energy – Technology, Economy, Challenges.) at the ‚Universidad del Valle‘, Cali. • Colombia: Collaboration in the further extension of the development project “Colegio de las Aguas“ (School of Water) in Montebel

• Head of department “Load Assumptions“ responsible for 10 employees of staff. • Project manager of the client and world market leader Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark for their certification projects. • Participation in development of regulations and standards on the national and international level in the field of loads, safety and engineering integrity for wind turbines. • Performance of seminars on wind energy technology for experts on international level. • Certific. service for ocean energy converters

• Build-up and expansion of the department “Load Assumptions”. • Project manager for the development of the wind turbine MM70 having an installed power of 2 MW. • Development of an efficient strategy for load calculations according to national and international standards for the wind turbine 5M having an installed power of 5 MW. • Responsible conductor for the certification of REpower’s products.

• Examination of load calculations and tower design calculations according to national and international standards. • Manager for the certification projects of GL’s Spanish customers (Gamesa, Made, Ecotècnia). • Examination of site specific load calculations for international mega projects. • Entire examination of the design of a wind turbine for developing countries. • Evaluation and analysis of measurements on wind turbines. • Participation in research projects of different subjects in international teams

• Project engineer for the research project of the German Ministry for Research and Technology “Development of an extruded Aluminum Rotor Blade for Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines and Cost minimizing Series Production”. • Calculation and simulation of loads for a huge number of wind turbines of different power classes. • Design and calculation of tubular steel towers and documentation for Type Certification. • Development and programming of digital computer programs for load calculations as well as calculatio

• Participation in build-up and expansion of the new founded company. • Management of the test field for wind turbines. • Performance of measurements and analysis in the research project “Small Wind Turbines for Developing Countries”. • Performance of measurements of wind potential and site specific expertise. • Participation research project “Scientific Measurement and Evaluation Program WMEP 250MW”. • Participation in the measurement program and operation of the wind turbine “HMW56-Antarctic”.

Student research project: • (Design and calculation of a tubular steel tower for the wind turbine HSW 30 for Type Approval); Grade: 1.0 Theses: • (Analysis of the mutual wake interaction of wind turbines in park configuration, case study “Windenergiepark Westküste”); Grade 1.0