About ASA

Principals & Management - United States

Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn
Principal, Energy Resources Group Lead
Education
M.S. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Rhode Island 1988
B.S. Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Purdue University, 1982
   Qualifications

Mr. Daniel Mendelsohn, a Principal at ASA, has more than 25 years experience in the implementation and management of environmental engineering analyses focused on regulatory compliance issues. His experience there includes numerical model development and application, environmental impact assessments, resource assessment studies, site assessment and feasibility studies, field monitoring programs and data analysis, providing support to the public and private sector for a wide range of environmental and permitting issues.

Mr. Mendelsohn started and directs ASA’s Energy Resources Group, focusing on the conceptual design, feasibility, planning and development of renewable energy system projects. He has managed several dozen large, utility scale, renewable energy projects for electric power cooperatives, municipalities, state government agencies, resort developments and private clients. Mr. Mendelsohn was also principle in charge and led the team on the RIWINDS, offshore wind energy feasibility study for the Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, working closely with the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation and RI’s Governor Carcieri and his staff to evaluate the feasibility of producing 15% of the state’s electrical needs from wind energy.



   Expertise
  • Renewable energy resource assessment
  • Marine, freshwater and atmospheric environmental engineering
  • Wind resource analysis
  • Meso-scale meteorological modeling
  • Wind-wave dynamics
  • Environmental heat transfer and atmospheric thermodynamics
  • Numerical modeling of estuarine, coastal and ocean hydrodynamics