Andrew Garrad

Garrad’s mission for the company was to be able to predict the weather, through the turbines and wind farms, the electricity they provided to the grid and the resulting cash flow.

[4][5] In 1984 Garrad wrote the initial version of the wind turbine system aeroelastic code Bladed, whose development continues to this day.

[6] Data, both measured and predicted, were the main currency of Garrad Hassan and the company produced many other computational tools[7][5][8] adopted by the industry.

Garrad was a member of the Council (Governing Body)[21] of the University of Bristol from 2012 to 2016 and is on the advisory board of the Cabot Institute.

[24] Garrad was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to renewable energy" in the 2017 New Year Honours.

"[31] OGM[32] named him one of the world's seven most influential energy leaders; Daily Magazine made a similar reference.

[35][36] In 2024 he and Henrik Stiesdal received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for their work on the development of high performance wind turbines.