Lead Meteorologist
Pattern Energy
Gennaro (Jerry) H. Crescenti is a Meteorologist whose principal area of expertise includes in-situ meteorological instrumentation, ground-based remote sensors, observation techniques, boundary layer meteorology, turbulence, air-sea interaction and wind resource and project energy assessment. He has over 35 years of experience as a meteorologist and 20 years in the wind energy industry. He has worked at FPL Energy (now NextEra) and Iberdrola Renewables (formerly PPM Energy, now Avangrid Renewables) and ArcVera Renewables (formerly Chinook Wind and V-Bar). He joined Pattern Energy in August 2022 and a lead meteorologist for several wind energy projects currently in development. He earned a B. S. degree in Earth Science from Southern Connecticut State University and a M. S. degree in Meteorology from Florida State University. During his tenure at NOAA, Mr. Crescenti was awarded two U. S. Department of Commerce Bronze Medal Awards in 1994 for the provision of technical support to Thailand in an air pollution emergency and in 2000 for design and application of a novel airborne instrument system to advance scientific knowledge of air-sea exchange.
