Andy Paine – North Falls
Andy is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Fellow of the I. Mech. E. with over 25 years’ experience in the development and delivery of energy projects. Having worked on coal and gas fired power station development, onshore wind and offshore wind Andy has worked with the whole range of challenges that project development can bring.
Holding senior development management positions with ALSTOM Power, RES and ESB Andy joined Vattenfall in 2012 as the Co-Project Director for the Vattenfall/Scottish Power joint venture for the ‘Round 3’ East Anglia Zone. He held various development management positions with Vattenfall, including more latterly assessing the feasibility of multi-purpose interconnector projects between the UK and Netherlands.
Andy has been a director of EEEGR and was instrumental in the formation of the East Wind Cluster. He has also sat on a number of industry groups, including National Grid Transmission’s Independent User Group where he had unique insight into their plans for engagement and delivery of grid investment plans for the East coast. He is now the independent project director of North Falls, a 50/50 joint venture between SSE Renewables and RWE which is an extension to the operational Greater Gabbard Offshore Wind Farm.