About

My mission is to prove wind, solar and batteries can reliably power the world — one bankable hybrid project at a time.

I'm Charles Haworth — a laser physicist turned wind-deal maker turned founder. I co-founded Modaso Energy and Tessera Hybrid, I'm based in Dubai, and I write here about what actually works.

Where it started

At 23, as a second-year PhD student at Imperial, I watched a colleague present theoretical modelling to a room that had mostly switched off. I saw it could be tested that day with the laser systems downstairs — so I ran down and took the measurements. That work became first-author papers in Science and Nature Physics, and the foundation of my PhD.

It's been the pattern ever since: when I see value sitting idle, I go and turn it into something real.

The road here

Imperial College London

PhD, laser physics

Attosecond laser research; first-author papers in Science and Nature Physics.

16 years

GE Vernova

Global Executive Director of Offshore Wind commercial operations. Closed multi-billion-dollar contracts including the 800 MW Vineyard Wind project, the first commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US. More than $5 billion in sales across my career.

COO/CFO

CWP Global

Ran operations and finance for a 200+ GW green hydrogen and Power-to-X portfolio across 34 countries. The hydrogen economics never quite worked — but underneath them I found the hybrid case.

Now

Modaso Energy & Tessera Hybrid

Developing hybrid renewable projects in Africa, and the software that designs them.

What I'm building

A wind farm runs at a 30–40% capacity factor and solar at 20–30%, so most of an expensive grid connection sits idle. Put wind, solar and batteries behind the same connection and you can use 60–80% of it. Two companies came out of that idea.

Co-Founder · CTO/COO

A renewable energy developer delivering baseload clean power across Africa — hybrid wind-solar projects with battery storage, built to be reliable and cost-competitive with thermal power. I co-founded it with Ramy Lotfy, and we're building it as the first fully AI-native developer: AI in project screening, contracts and engineering optimisation.

Part of the Mocoh Group, pairing 27 years of on-the-ground Africa experience with Modaso's technical and commercial team.

modasoenergy.com →

1000sconfigurations tested vs 3–5 by hand

30 yrhourly dispatch simulations

$20M+NPV added on a 100 MW African project

65%+grid capacity factor on hybrid designs

Co-Founder · Chairman · formerly Converge Hybrid

Software and consulting for designing hybrid renewable projects. The platform takes resource data, equipment, grid constraints and power prices, runs thousands of wind-solar-battery configurations, and returns bankable designs with LCOE, IRR and NPV. I co-founded it with Philippe Chabarot after building the first models myself.

The goal: 10 GW of projects optimised worldwide in three years.

converge-hybrid.com →

Research

First-author publications in Science (2006, probing proton dynamics on attosecond timescales) and Nature Physics (2007, half-cycle cut-offs in harmonic spectra), from PhD work at Imperial College London.

Investing

An active investor in technology, blockchain, and energy-transition start-ups — and I write about it in Investing & Money.

Outside work

Based in Dubai. Black belts in judo and kickboxing.

Invite me to speak

Conferences, podcasts, and panels on the energy transition and applied AI. For everything else, the essays are free.

Get in touch speaking@charleshaworth.com

Read the essays