IWEA

 

Tim is a Chartered Accountant, holds an honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Tim has more than sixteen years commercial experience in many different roles culminating to date in his present role as CEO of the SWS Group with full responsibility for the day today operations of the Company. SWS is now strategically placed to become one of the leading players in Renewable Energy in this country.

 
Dave McNamara, Vice chairman IWEA

Dave is a practicing electrical engineer with a background in power engineering, industrial power and control and project development. Dave has been working in the area of electrical engineering since 1992. The majority of his working career has been spent working in utilities, utility service providers and heavy industry. In previous employments he managed the Irish operation of a UK electrical engineering consultancy specialising in renewable generation; managed an international Utility equipment project delivery team; and established and ran an electrical engineering contracting business. He currently manages Renewable Power Generation Ltd a company that develops auto-production wind generation projects on industrial consumer's sites.

Mr. Jim O'Malley, Company Secretary IWEA

Jim O’Malley is a Chartered Engineer and founding director of ENTRAC, an energy consultancy. Prior to that he was Energy Officer for North West Ireland and has other experience as project engineer for Asahi, Sisk and Haden in UK. He currently works on developing small wind projects and is a director of IWEA.

Ms. Maureen De Pietro – Chair of the Policy Working Group

Maureen De Pietro is a graduate of Law of Manchester University and was a practising solicitor from 1966-2000. In 1992, having become aware of the threats of global climate change and environmental degradation, she gave up her law firm partnership and become a sole practitioner to enable her to devote her time to promoting the use of renewable energy resources, particularly wind and biomass.She is a Director of D P Energy Ireland Ltd and has been actively involved in wind energy development since 1990. As a Director of a small company she has hands-on experience of complete project development from site sourcing and landowner negotiation through planning permission, grid connection, finance and construction, to power sales and operation.

Emmet Egan – Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee

Emmet Egan received an Honours degree in Environmental Science from UCD in 1993 and after a lengthy stay in Germany returned to Ireland in 1998. Emmet has worked in the wind energy sector since mid 2003 on behalf of Coillte Teo (The Irish Forestry Board). In this period he has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Renewable Energy Systems Technology at Loughborough University in Leicestershire and a Diploma in EIA / SEA Management at UCD. Emmet has been a member of the IWEA council since 2003.

For more information on council members, please download the Excel file here.