Dr. Sam Williamson is a senior renewable energy consultant within the analysis team at Wood with extensive experience in both pre-construction and operational energy yield assessments. Since joining Wood, Sam has been responsible for delivery and project management of a number of wind farm analysis projects across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. The wind range of project locations has resulted in a wealth of experience in a range of climatic and project-specific conditions. This includes both onshore and offshore analysis across a wide range of environments. Sam has extensive experience on conducting wind resource and pre-construction energy yield assessments including analysis of onsite measured datasets (including meteorological masts and remote sensing devices), long term correction through measure-correlate-predict procedures, horizontal wind flow extrapolation, utilising both linear wind flow and computational fluid dynamic models, energy yield assessment and uncertainty analysis. Sam has also conducted a number of operational energy yield analyses, utilising both SCADA and monthly datasets. These projects have involved the analysis of the raw 10-minute wind turbine generator production, wind speed and direction time series, definition of loss events within the SCADA data using system alarms and events data, normalisation of the available data to correct for data coverage losses and operational energy yield calculation based on the correlation of this corrected data with suitable reference sources. Sam has gained experience using a number of software packages, including WAsP and Meteodyn WT wind flow modelling software, Windfarmer, Windpro, Python for various analysis procedures and SQL. Outside of work Sam enjoys cycling and pub quizzes (both taking part and compiling/hosting).
