Dr Garth Bryans
Company Name: Aquamarine Power
Dr. Garth Bryans
Head of New Technologies and Energy Forecasting
Aquamarine Power
Dr. Garth Bryans joined Aquamarine Power as Senior Resource Analyst in 2008, before being promoted to Head of New Technologies and Energy Forecasting. Dr. Bryans and his team are responsible for modeling wave and tidal resource, selecting sites for development and assessing the market available for the technology to facilitate the development of a technology with maximum market access. Dr. Bryans is involved several advisory groups including the wave modeling expert group of EPRI, advising the US government on how to model the wave resource around the US coast, the council of the MIRA group which represents the interests of the marine energy developers in Ireland and the group advising the Marine Institute on wave energy resource assessment for Ireland.
Prior to joining Aquamarine Power, Dr Bryans worked for Airtricity Limited where he was responsible for producing the market price forecast, customer demand forecast, optimization of interconnector bids and bilateral contracts against a position containing a high percentage of wind generation. In 2008 Dr. Bryans moved within Airtricity to a new group which had been established to start the development of Wave and Tidal farms in the UK and Ireland, where he was responsible for assessing the technologies and for modeling the wave and tidal resource.
In 2006, Dr Bryans received a Doctor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Queen's University Belfast, titled ?The impact of tidal stream devices on electrical power systems?. This piece of work included modeling the tidal resource around Ireland, modeling the effect of tidal generation on system stability, the necessary system upgrades required to develop the tidal resource, the effect on the electricity system market and the net effect on system emissions given the constant ramping up and down of thermal balancing plant.
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