Optimisation

Paula Naranjo is a Head of Engineering, with circa 10 years’ worth of energy industry experience, 8 of these years focused on renewable energy projects, gaining professional experience in multinational companies. Expertise in design review for solar and battery storage projects, performance review, EPC and O&M contract negotiation, portfolio acquisition of operating assets including risk assessment for the investment party, EPC tender process management including technical review of the tender results.

Acting mainly as Technical Advisor and Owner’s Engineer roles Paula has been involved in a total of 1.3GW transactions in Bluefield, with previous experience running asset management services during the post construction warranty period, which included managing punch-list, raising defects and negotiating mitigation actions with the EPC Contractors. Prior to joining Bluefield, Paula has worked in ATA Renewables as Technical Advisor for the utility scale solar plants, involved in more than 10 GW assessment including, among other activities, Lender’s Technical Due Diligence in Southern Europe and South America, Product Due Diligences for equipment manufacturers’ including factory visits to China, Owner’s Engineering Services during EPC negotiation, O&M and EPC Contracts Review for Asset Owners.

Paula has an MSc in Renewable Energies in Energy Networks and a BSc in Industrial Electrical Engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid. It is worth mentioning that she is heavily involved in the Diversity strategy of Bluefield.

Rob is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ of experience. Having worked at Bluefield for over 5 years, he has supported the significant growth within Bluefield both in the UK and Europe. He has a wide range of financial experience in the renewables sector including diligence support on acquisitions totalling nearly £500m, financial management and external debt compliance of generator SPV’s.

Nicholas Burridge is Managing Director of Asset Management, Southern Europe and holds up the asset management function of Bluefield-owned solar assets in Europe. Nicholas possesses 12 years of operational and asset management experience in the renewables sector and has been involved in the technical management of ca. 1GW across 150+ assets in the UK. Nicholas’ experience is centred on optimising operational assets by developing and executing strategies to maximise asset performance and reduce operational spend, with a particular focus on turnaround and value-add activities.  He has a history of successful recruitment, training and the development of effective and operational asset management teams.  Nicholas also gained professional experience in multinational companies within the renewable sector with a focus on O&M and Asset Management activities. Nicholas holds a MEng in Mining Engineering, specialty in Renewable Energy from the Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Rachael Herbert is the Managing Director of Technical Support Services overlooking all the supporting functions within Bluefield Services, Monitoring, Performance Reporting, Digital and IT.

Rachael has 25 years’ experience within Financial Services sector working in Treasury, Financial Accounting, Asset Management and Head of Customer Services. Having joined Bluefield over 5 years ago, she has gained in-depth knowledge of the solar and wind technologies, where she implemented group performance reporting, setting data quality controls, process and automation implementation and headed up the Monitoring and Performance department.