Frits Verheij                                                                                                           

Frits Verheij has been working in the field of renewable energy, mainly wind energy, since 1987. He studied on both the Delft and the Eindhoven Technical Universities, and started his carreer in 1987 at TNO, a research organization. In 1997 he joined the Energy Agency Novem as a Senior Programme Manager responsible for the technical issues related to wind energy. At the same time he started his own one-man consultancy business on Industrial Safety & Organization (part-time).

Frits is working with KEMA since 2001 as Product Group Manager Wind Energy. In 2006 he has been appointed as Managing Principal Future Energy Systems. He is one of the authors of the White Paper “Smart Grids of the Future”, has been advisor of utilities and governments on renewable energy strategies, and is Project Manager of the study on the Energy Island, an innovative concept for large-scale energy storage. Besides, he is Programme Manager of We@Sea, a research programme for offshore wind energy.

Frits has been a member of several Committees and Advisory Boards amongst others for the Energy Research Centre in The Netherlands and Delft Technical University.