Linnea Voss
Energy systems engineer
Rotterdam, Netherlands · hello@example.com · linkedin.com/in/your-name
Summary
Twelve years in grid storage and offshore wind. I have led commissioning on 1.4 GWh of battery storage across nine sites in six countries. Open to principal and lead roles from March 2027.
Experience
Principal engineer, Tidemark Energy
Feb 2024 to now · Rotterdam
I own the electrical and controls design for two battery sites and sign off every energisation plan. I lead eleven engineers across design, commissioning and grid compliance.
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Energised a 400 MWh site 11 days early
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Own design and commissioning for 450 MWh across two sites.
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Built and lead a team of eleven engineers.
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Passed grid operator compliance at the first attempt on both sites.
Lead engineer, storage integration, Voltaic North
Jun 2021 to Jan 2024 · Rotterdam
I ran integration for four storage sites from factory tests to handover. I wrote the commissioning playbook the company still uses.
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Cut commissioning from 14 weeks to 8.7 weeks
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Commissioned 640 MWh across four sites.
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Ran the company’s first grid-forming inverter trial on a 40 MW site.
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Brought grid compliance testing in house, ending a six-figure yearly consultancy cost.
Senior commissioning engineer, Halberg Storage
Mar 2019 to May 2021 · Malmö
I led site commissioning teams on the company’s first three utility-scale batteries and trained the technicians who now run them.
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Commissioned 310 MWh across three sites.
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Delivered a 110 MWh battery on an operating solar farm without interrupting its export.
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Trained 18 technicians, 12 of whom now hold site lead roles.
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Zero lost-time incidents across all three sites.
Electrical engineer, Kestrel Grid Services
Jul 2016 to Feb 2019 · Hamburg
I designed protection and control schemes for substation upgrades on a regional network, and stayed on site until each one was live.
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Designed protection for 14 substation upgrades.
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Replaced protection relays at live substations with no unplanned outage.
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Cut relay setting review time by a third with a shared calculation template.
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Mentored two graduate engineers through their first energisations.
Graduate engineer, Norrvind Offshore
Sep 2014 to Jun 2016 · Bergen
I joined the cable team of a 54-turbine offshore wind farm and ran the test programme for its array cables, from the factory to the seabed.
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Tested 48 km of 66 kV array cable with no rework.
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Wrote the site acceptance procedure later reused on two more wind farms.
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Found and replaced three faulty cable joints before burial, saving an estimated nine vessel days.
Education
MSc Electrical Power Engineering, 2014
Trondheim Institute of Technology
BSc Electrical Engineering, 2012
Västerhavn Technical College
Certificates
Project management professional, 2022
Chartered Engineer, 2020
High-voltage authorised person, 2019
Skills
Battery storage (BESS), protection and control, grid-forming inverters, HV cable systems, SCADA and EMS, commissioning leadership, grid code compliance, factory and site acceptance tests, safety management (LOTO). Tools: PowerFactory, PSCAD, ETAP, Python, AutoCAD Electrical.
Languages
English and Swedish, fluent. Norwegian and Dutch, working.