NEW ZEALAND WIND ENERGY ASSOCIATION
BOARD MEMBERS
BOARD MEMBERS & OFFICERS
The Board Members of the New Zealand Wind Energy Association Incorporated (NZWEA) are Officers as defined in the NZWEA Constitution and in accordance with the Incorporated Societies Act 2022. Board Members are responsible for the governance and overall performance of NZWEA’s activities. The Chief Executive, also an Officer, has overall responsibility for developing and executing NZWEA’s strategy and business plan. The Chief Executive reports to the NZWEA Board
In addition to the Chief Executive, the Board consists of eight (8) Board Members, duly elected by Members at each Annual General Meeting for a two (2) year term in accordance with the criteria and procedure set out in the NZWEA Constitution.
Individual and Honorary Members cannot be elected to the Board. Eligible Board Members are elected at NZWEA’s Annual General Meeting, typically held 2-3 months following the financial year end result. The Board structure is designed to represent the entire NZWEA membership in a fair and unbiased manner.
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.
Board Members
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David is the Managing Director of Goodman Energy Ltd, a specialist civil balance of plant (CBOP) construction company and has extensive experience delivering wind farm projects in New Zealand.
David has 28 years’ experience in the wind energy sector and has managed the CBOP delivery for a combined 590mw of capacity across seven projects and provided professional services across a further 280mw of completed wind generation.
David provides consulting services to a wide range of wind energy developers for site selection and business case development.
Goodman Energy is the preferred CBOP contractor for Meridian Energy’s Te Rere Hau (TRH) repowering project in the Manawatu, and David’s consulting company, DCR Civil identified and is developing the proposed Ototoka Wind Farm North of Wanganui in partnership with Manawa Energy (Contact).
Matthew has 18 years’ experience in the New Zealand energy industry where he has previously held responsibilities for Contact’s key commodity trading functions including electricity spot and forward markets, carbon and gas trading. He is currently leading Contact’s development of wind and solar generation projects across New Zealand.
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