Team

Managing Director

Aiden Watters

Aiden Watters joined Optinergy in 2012 with over 16 years experience of senior management with General Electric and substantial experience in business development, process engineering /re-engineering, change management and customer service.

Under Aiden’s guidance since 2012 Optinergy has seen steady growth that has seen Optinergy establish itself as the leading ISP in the wind industry on the 32 counties of Ireland successfully looking after multi platform wind turbine technologies.

Aiden has developed a very experienced team of people who are recognised in the wind industry as leading professionals in their field while delivering a “best in class” personable service to all clients.

Director

Darren Sherry

Darren Sherry is a founding Director of Optinergy Ltd – one of Ireland’s leading independent O&M service companies.

Darren was responsible for the development of the 28.5MW Mountain Lodge Wind Farm in Co. Cavan from inception, through the consenting process to financial close.

Darren’s wealth of experience both as a developer & wind farm owner brings a number unique qualities to Optinergy in the provision of O&M services.

Director

Herman Busschots

Herman Busschots is a founding director of Optinergy and has substantial experience in the European renewables industry and in particular a long vocation to the renewables industry in Ireland.

Herman began working on Irish wind energy projects in 1993. In his career to date he has developed over 1GW of Wind Energy projects, 55MW of solar projects & over 600 MW of projects that have deployed conventional generation technologies.

Previous employment includes Zond UK (part of Zond Inc.) and more recently GE Wind Energy, where he has held a variety of senior positions including Head of Wind Turbine Sales for the UK & Ireland and European Wide Powergen Project Development.

Director

Ian Durnin

Ian Durnin is a founding Director of Optinergy and led the start-up in the early stages winning the initial customers and managing the services to their wind parks inclusive of scheduled maintenance, responding to breakdowns and projects such as major component replacements.

Ian’s introduction to the industry was as Operations and Maintenance Manager of the Airtricity assets before its sale to SSE. Prior to that Ian had a long career in various technical and operational management roles in high tech manufacturing for blue chip multinational companies such as Hewlett Packard. Now a Chartered Engineer, Ian’s training began hands-on as an aircraft electrical apprentice before working as a technician, engineer and manager in various technical environments.”