
Bruce Valpy
Managing Director and Founder
Bruce is founder and leader of BVGA. He delivers strategic projects for governments, enablers, developers and supply-chain businesses. He has written a wide range of market, technology and economic reports. Bruce has helped shape the future of offshore wind in many markets, globally. Before starting BVGA, he led international engineering teams at major wind turbine suppliers. He developed and commercialised a range of cutting-edge wind turbines that now operate globally. Clients benefit from his deep technical, engineering design and market knowledge from over 30 years within the wind industry, combined with strategic insight. Bruce brings a creative, rigorous and straight-talking approach to addressing the most complex challenges. His passion is to make a difference to clients, especially where decisions have an impact on the future of our climate.
Bruce has a first class honours degree in engineering (with economics) from Cambridge University and almost 30 years’ hands-on experience in renewables. He uses his technical, business and economic understanding to help you do new things, think in new ways and solve tough problems.
Before founding BVGA, Bruce led all wind turbine hub and hydraulic/electric pitch system R&D activities for NEG Micon, then led development of Vestas’ largest blades. During this time, Bruce grew an experienced and spirited multi-disciplinary team from 10 to 23 people with budget for design, testing, prototyping and early series manufacture. His team built a reputation for being a creative, reliable, responsive and authoritative internal supplier of quality products. Before this, Bruce led turbine development activities at an innovative UK turbine manufacturer, involving detailed engineering of many aspects of a range of different turbine concepts.
Bruce will give you energy, straight talking and creative ideas based on a lot of experience and a quick-thinking mind.
To find out how Bruce can help your business, drop him an email.