Company Profile
 Garrad Hassan and Partners Limited was established in 1984 to answer a growing need for independent expert advice on wind energy. GH now employs over 270 full time staff working in the wind energy and marine renewables industries around the world and is recognised as the leading independent authority.
Garrad Hassan is an international consultancy, with offices in 18 countries
Our client list includes all the major wind turbine manufacturers, developers, banks and lenders. It demonstrates the worldwide nature of the company’s work as well as the broad spectrum of technical issues addressed by our team of dedicated wind energy experts.
Garrad Hassan maintains its independence by taking no equity stake in any development or technology. We work purely on a consultancy basis. This one working principle is a guarantee to our clients of objective service of the highest quality.
Recognition of our international success came in April 2000 when the company was awarded the Queen’s Award for Export Enterprise - a prestigious national award reflecting the company’s outstanding export work over many years.
Garrad Hassan’s expertise covers every aspect of wind energy
We have acted as Banks' or Owners' Engineer for over 18,000MW of operating wind farms around the world. We have carried out energy assessment totalling over 50,000MW. GH provides due diligence work, contract review and supervision for banks and lenders. Energy resource assessment, wind farm design and development services, on- and offshore are major parts of our portfolio. For governments, the EU and NGO’s we carry out analysis of energy policies, market surveys, regional resource studies, research and development. For manufacturers our services include design and analysis of wind turbines, components, control systems, as well as certification support and on-site measurements.
Leading products for the design of wind turbines and wind farms
GH Bladed, launched in 1996, is the industry standard software package for wind turbine design and analysis. GH
T-MON is an integrated hardware and software system for the measurement of structural loads and performance of wind turbines. In 1998, the company launched GH WindFarmer, the advanced software tool for the design and analysis of wind farms, which is used throughout the world. GH SCADA is the leading independent wind farm management, information and reporting tool. GH Forecaster, launched in 2003, provides short term forecasts of the wind energy production of wind farms.
Marine renewables
Garrad Hassan offers a range of consultancy services to marine energy device and project developers, investors, contractors, financiers and other stakeholders. Our services include wave and tidal resource assessment, design and testing of marine energy devices, project feasibility and front end engineering studies, and technical due diligence. GH Tidal Bladed is available for the modelling and design analysis of marine current turbines, GH T-MON can be used for the testing of marine energy devices and our O & M simulation package can be used to plan and analyse the O & M solution.
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