Ray Brown Email & Phone Number

Ray Brown (BE (Hons) FIPENZ IntPE CPEng), has over 35 years’ experience in the power sector and has lived and worked in New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, the Cayman Islands and Australia. He has worked in the power industry across Europe, South East Asia, the Americas and the Pacific. Enjoying power industry planning, business development and project implementation, Ray has held senior roles guiding electricity utilities and delivering HVDC, transmission, distribution, wind, solar, hydro, power electronic, CCGT, cogen, and GT projects.Currently as the General Manager for Engineering and Development at Marlborough Lines Ltd, Ray’s team is responsible for planning the network, preparation of the Asset Management Plan, developing projects that support the company’s aspirations, and providing engineering services across the power utility.Ray spent five years planning the power sector infrastructure in Grand Cayman, setting up frameworks to deliver those plans, and then delivering the projects to realise those strategies. Significant effort was put into developing frameworks to deliver high penetration of renewable energy in the Cayman Islands, developing supporting infrastructure such as BESS, new substations, improved control systems and behind the meter solutions that could assist to balance renewable generation variability. Ray’s team provided business development, planning, standards, engineering, and project management services to this vertically integrated power utility.With AECOM Ray led a team of engineering staff providing a broad range of consulting services to the electricity industry across Australasia, Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. His passions in this role were providing strategic planning services, and guiding renewable energy developments across the South Pacific.In Meridian Energy Ray led the development of grid integration solutions for Meridian’s wind farm developments where he guided the transmission technical, commercial, strategic and regulatory direction of Meridian.Ray is a past member of the CIGRE international Technical Committee which is the highest recognition of any practicing engineer in the NZ power industry. He is a CIGRE Distinguished Member and has been chairman of CIGRE NZ, and was the 2013 winner of the biennial IPENZ Supreme Technical Award for the Energy Industry.Co-author of Wind Power in Power Systems - editor Thomas Ackermann, 2ed.Specialties: Providing positive cultural change within power sector organisations. Planning and integration of technically and commercially challenging power solutions.