Frank B. Flottemesch
CAREER
Building on this, in 1995 and transferred to planning office WEGA INTERPLAN (RHEINE) working as adviser for landscape, land use and environmental impact planning. In addition, I headed the cartography and GIS team there with 3-5 CAD / GIS specialists. As a consultant, I also contributed to technical papers on land-use plans and environmental impact assessments responsible for air hygiene, noise, soil, geology and hydrology.
Early 2001, I entered the wind industry by accepting the role to set up and operate the department of Wind Assessment, Micrositing and Site Suitability at ENRON WIND GMBH (SALZBERGEN), which expanded internationally after the acquisition of Enron Wind by GENERAL ELECTRIC WIND ENERGY GMBH. In addition to owning full technical responsibility, first as a Sales Engineer, later as a Technical Director and ultimately as a Principal Engineer, I led a team of up to 25 employees at several international locations in the US, Europe, India, and China. In this role I acted as disciplinary head of the team, amongst others responsible for hiring, leadership and development, but also as technical leader in charge of a continuous method and procedures development including their implementation in the frame of "lean management". Due to the global orientation of my assignment, I was able to work on countless wind farm projects to solve a wide variety of problems, e.g. Offshore: Gunfleet Sands (UK), Arklow Bank (IRE), Cape Wind (US) or Onshore: Elk River (USA), Fantanele (ROM), Zafarana (ET), Hebai (CHN).
In 2009 I changed sides and started a role at UK based PMSS LTD (SOUTHAMPTON), looking after consultancy for all technical aspects of wind farm developments. In mid-2010 was expanded with a subsidiary PMSS DEUTSCHE WIND CONSULT GMBH (RHEINE / HAMBURG). Here, I headed the office Rheine, from where my team and I essentially accompanied the site identification and assessment, the project planning and project evaluation (due diligence) for investors, operators and insurers, as owner’s engineers and strategic advisers. In my position, I was responsible for the business development, the expansion of market penetration and customer support, in addition to disciplinary and technical leadership. Key reference customers for this period are: GCube (Lloyds) for global claims valuation, EDF-UK and John Liang for wind energy projects in the UK, Impax for wind energy Cypern, Masters of Airpower in Poland, OMV in Romania and WirSol and Imapx with their wind farm developments in the UK and Germany. In May 2013 PMSS was acquired by TÜV-Süd.
In September 2013 Dutch-German consultancy experts ECOFYS (UTRECHT / KÖLN) hired me in to led and develop their wind and yield assessment branch as part of their strategic consultancy to EU clients but also to governmental organisations (e.g. BMWi) and NGO’s. Furthermore, I was tasked to develop a new business segment of wind project evaluation (due diligence), wind farm performance monitoring and wind farm optimization, staffed with 12 – 15 FTE. Key clients of that aera are: ING-Bank, Joulz, Enercon, Raedthuys and Eneco, Shell, Senvion, Stadtwerke Münster, STEAG, Mainova and Naturstrom.