Insights, opinions, and technical perspectives from the field.
After a decade in wind energy research — from Imperial College to NREL — I kept seeing the same gap: the best science wasn't reaching the projects that needed it most. This is the story of why I decided to bridge that divide.
Tropical cyclones break almost every assumption baked into the IEC standards. A technical brief on the under-/over-design trap, the modeling gap, the standards gap, and the eight research priorities that have to close — based on our paper in Wind Energy Science (Deskos et al., 2026).
Worked examples of the analysis behind a number — from per-risk PML to forensic due diligence. Illustrative unless a client is named.
A physics-based reconstruction of a Great Plains derecho on a 1.5 MW turbine — why direction, not wind speed, decides which machine folds. With the real-time simulation video.
An illustrative probable-maximum-loss estimate for the ~2.6 GW CVOW array off Virginia Beach: North Atlantic hurricane hazard resolved to the site and convolved with the monopile and aeroelastic response of a 14.7 MW-class turbine.
An illustrative accumulation model across a book of offshore wind assets — one physics-based storm footprint applied portfolio-wide to surface correlated exposure, accumulation zones, and where a single event concentrates loss.