V-BAR - Consultants to the Wind Industry

	Richard Simon (BA, MS, Meteorology) has been working in the wind energy industry since 1977, at which time he co-authored the first formal study of wind resource potential in California. He has been Principal Investigator on wind energy research projects sponsored by the US federal government, several state governments, and electric utility companies. Mr. Simon helped site many of the California wind turbines built in the early 1980's. During the 1990's, these efforts were expanded across the United States and abroad. Mr. Simon has personally sited approximately 10,000 MW of operating wind turbines around the world, and collaborated in the selection of many other turbines. He is well respected by the financial community, and has often served as a bank's meteorologist for wind resource due diligence. In addition to the pure meteorological work, Mr. Simon works closely with clients to help them define and implement business strategies. The integration of science and business is critical to successful wind resource development in today's challenging environment.
	Gregory S. Poulos (B.S., M.S., Ph.D., Meteorology) joined V-Bar in 2009. Since 2007 he had led Clipper Windpower’s first meteorology and wind resource assessment group, where he oversaw numerous wind energy projects from origination to operations, and advised the turbine manufacturing, construction management and O&M teams. His meteorological focus throughout his career has concerned winds in complex terrain, very high resolution mesoscale modeling, large-eddy simulations and atmospheric observations using towers, sodar, lidar and profiling atmospheric radar. In 1996, he joined Colorado Research Associates, where, among other modeling and observational work, he led the CASES-99 tall tower and remote sensing field experiment studying the winds over the plains of Kansas. In 1999 he co-founded the operational numerical weather prediction company Foresight Weather, LLC. In 2003 he joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Earth Observing Laboratory, where he was a Scientist and led the Research Technology Facility whose purpose was to develop and deploy advanced tower, lidar, sodar, radar and balloon-borne observational equipment for scientific research worldwide.
	David F. Matson (BS, Meteorology) has been part of the team since 1983. His specialties are data management, software development, instrumentation, and power performance testing of wind turbines. Mr. Matson has processed meteorological data from thousands of stations around the world. He has written a complete software library for comprehensive wind energy analyses. He also specializes in site visits and resource reports. He has installed hundreds of wind monitoring towers and has trained crews for clients to meet state-of-the-art specifications.
	Eron W. Jones (MS, Mathematics-Atmospheric Science) joined the V-Bar team in 2007 after completing his master’s thesis on global climate networks. He handles data retrieval and quality control procedures for numerous meteorological towers each month. Mr. Jones also is experienced with meteorological tower and turbine siting, wind farm climatic condition requirements, and compiling wind resource analysis reports.
	Matthew H. Bullard (BS, Atmospheric Sciences, MPA, Public Policy and Administration) joined V-Bar in 2008. He specializes in data processing, quality control, and wind resource reporting and has streamlined V-Bar’s data acquisition and project management processes. Prior to joining V-Bar, he worked as a technical lead in the IT industry specializing in the management of enterprise-wide corporate UNIX and Window-based computer systems. He also worked as an applications and quality assurance engineer at Weather Services International specializing in that company's UNIX-based broadcast and operational weather analysis software suites.
	Peter A. Stamus (B.S., M.S., Meteorology) joined V-Bar in 2011 with a background in meteorological analysis and forecasting, quality control, and technology transfer. He spent 14 years with NOAA’s Forecast Systems Laboratory working on analysis and display systems that are now installed in every National Weather Service forecast office, and was responsible for a high-resolution analysis system at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He joined Colorado Research Associates in 2000, and worked on a variety of projects for the military, NWS, and others, including a study of very high-resolution anemometer data for the National Renewable Energy Lab. He also worked with Foresight Weather, LLC, a numerical weather prediction company, where he rose to the position of VP-Operations.
	Vijayant Kumar, PhD, has been a part of V-bar since April 2012 and provides deep experience in wind/solar resource assessment, wind turbine aerodynamics, boundary layer meteorology and computational fluid dynamics. He joined the renewables industry in 2007, first serving in key resource assessment/due diligence leadership roles with Fremantle Energy and Macquarie Bank. He then joined Sorian as VP of Engineering developing innovative active flow control technology for wind turbines. He applies his diverse skill set, technical expertise and knack for problem-solving to help clients realize the full potential of their renewable assets and to develop the next-generation of accurate tools/products for the renewables industry.