John Twidell is Director of the AMSET Centre Ltd. and is a visiting lecturer at the Environmental Change Institute,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

, and the School of Aeronautics and Engineering, City University, London. He is Editor Emeritus of the academic journal ''

Wind Engineering Wind engineering is a subset of mechanical engineering, structural engineering, meteorology, and applied physics that analyzes the effects of wind in the natural and the built environment and studies the possible damage, inconvenience or benefits w ...

''. He co-edited the 2009 book ''Offshore Wind Power''. (primary source) Professor Twidell previously held the Chair in

Renewable Energy Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources that are naturally replenished on a human timescale. It includes sources such as sunlight, wind, the movement of water, and geothermal heat. Although most renewable energy ...

at De Montfort University and was Director of the Energy Studies Unit of Strathclyde University. He has served on the Boards of the British Wind Energy Association (now RenewableUK) and the UK Solar Energy Society, on committees of the

Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) is a UK-based learned society and professional body that works to advance physics education, research and application. It was founded in 1874 and has a worldwide membership of over 20,000. The IOP is the Physica ...

and as an adviser to the UK Parliamentary Select Committee on Energy. He has been a long-standing champion of wind energy.

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