{"id":21862,"date":"2021-10-12T05:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abl-group.com\/abl\/?post_type=people&#038;p=21862"},"modified":"2022-11-07T02:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:32:59","slug":"richard-abrams","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/abl-group.com\/abl\/people\/richard-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rich Abrams is Head of Onshore Renewables at ABL Group. He has been working in renewables for 16 years and is responsible for onshore wind, solar and energy storage technologies. He has a BSc in Astrophysics and an MSc in Atmospheric Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rich began his career in renewables as a wind analyst, starting at Garrad Hassan (later DNV) in 2005 and working on various resource assessments initially in India and China. He moved to Zaragoza in Spain and later to San Diego in the US for four years where he specialised in very large or complex projects. 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