Dowling – currently a senior executive within Siemens’ successful UK industrial division – will be responsible for delivering the plants at Green Port Hull and nearby Paull.

An employee since 1989, he will move from Siemens' drives manufacturing facility in Cheshire, northwest England, where he has been managing director since 2009.

Dowling will be joined in Hull by Ross Dean, for the last five years Siemens' commercial head of UK Offshore Wind Projects, who will be commercial project director for the Hull projects.

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