Helmi Uusitalo (M.Sc.) from AFRY’s Wind and Solar Finland unit has a background in Engineering Physics (Advanced Energy Technologies) from Aalto University. She has developed wind farm icing modelling in her Master’s Thesis (Analysis and Modeling for Predicting Icing Losses in Finnish Wind Power Production, Aalto University, 2022) and continued the icing modelling development in AFRY after completing her studies. Prior to AFRY, Helmi has worked in University of Helsinki in Institute for atmospheric and Earth system research studying new particle and droplet formation in atmosphere. Helmi has experience of many years from wind power analyses, measurements and modelling, as well as development related to icing and turbine operational data. Helmi has long been very interested in wind power icing being one of the most complicated phenomenon in wind power production, that is difficult to predict. The challenge has led her to a development journey to better simulate, understand, and predict the effects caused by ice accretion and breakage from the wind turbines.
