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Peter Harte
Profile typeSpeaker
Official Speaker of the All Ireland Grid & Energy Conference & Exhibition
Peter studied Mechanical Engineering in UL, and then spent the early part of his career working for Accenture as a project manager in a variety of IT projects. He joined SWS Energy in 2003 and worked in the grid connection and market/regulation side of the business, joining Tim as a co-founder of Element Power. During his career in wind, Peter conceived and permitted the 500MW Greenlink Interconnector project, conceived the use of sync-comps for grid system inertia, and designed and delivered grid connection capacity for close to 1GW of Irish wind projects. He has sat on EirGrid's DS3 Advisory Committee for more than a decade, and was the Chair of the Irish Wind Energy Association for 6 years. As CEO of Net Zero Energy, he is leading the development of the 620MW Rathrush Green Energy Park, a 70hr long duration energy storage project in Carlow.
