Judges

Ian Rippin

Chief Executive Officer, Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS)

Andrew Edwards

Business Development Lead - Building Energy Services, Veolia

Mark Dallen

Former Consortium & Stakeholder Manager: ECO

Mark has been in the energy industry for over 36 years and more recently in the energy efficiency obligation area for over 16 years. He has extensive experience of working with stakeholders on the planning and implementation of numerous energy efficiency projects throughout the UK. In particular, Mark has worked closely with ECO installation partners and local authorities on ECO funded and Warm Homes funded schemes to deliver energy efficiency measures to vulnerable customers in community based schemes regionally and nationally. Mark has always been a strong supporter for many years of the Regional and National Energy Efficiency Awards, as this is the ideal high profile event to showcase and support the very best practices and projects that improves people’s lives within the energy efficiency industry.

Danny Taylor

National Sales Team Director at UKPS, Plumbase

Thirty Years Experience in Plumbing and Heating Industry
Advocate of NetZero and the reduction of fuel poverty

Stephen Batty

HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY, PLACES & COMMUNITIES – CENTRAL REGION , Equans

Steve has worked within the Social Housing Construction Sector for over 24 years. He has a Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management background, then became Head Of Sustainability at EQUANS in 2010 to head up their low carbon retrofit strategy.
Steve now leads on the delivery of zero carbon solutions for EQUANS and has a wealth of knowledge around low carbon retrofit solutions, helping EQUANS’ clients bring retrofit schemes to reality having delivered and managed over £250m of funding to clients over the years including CESP, ECO, FIT, RHI, GHG LAD, SHDF, and ERDF funded schemes.

Dr K T Tan

Technical Director, Viridian Solar

Dr KT Tan is the Technical Director at Viridian Solar, a UK company based in Cambridge with their renowned innovative Clearline Fusion products. He has been devoting his professional life for over a decade to developing products and technologies for the renewable sector. He started to work with solar thermal well before the PV became a mainstream renewable solution. As a Chartered Engineer, he specialises in solar PV new technologies with a particular interest in roof-integrated systems, advanced cell technologies and innovative mounting solutions. He is a member of the Industrial Advisory Panel of the Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable PV, and a member of the GEL/82 Standards Policy and Strategy Committee for PV Systems. He is also the Chair of the MCS Solar PV Technical Working Group. He graduated with an Engineering PhD from University of Cambridge.

Gary Spiers

Construction Project manager, E.On Energy Solutions

Gary Spiers career spans over 22 years, covering all aspects of management, auditing, and Installations measures within the industry.

Dani Putney

Quality & Risk Officer, Certsure LLP

Dani Putney has over 14 years’ experience in the Building Engineering Services Sector, working within a leading Certification Body providing UKAS accredited certification services. She has held several positions within Certsure (NICEIC and ELECSA) and is currently responsible for ensuring that accreditation is maintained for the Group’s activities.
She represents Certsure (NICEIC and ELECSA) at various industry committees including Chair of the MCS Competency Working Group, member of PAS2030 Steering Committee and participating in the Each Home Counts Work streams

Rachel Jones

Chair, West Midlands Association of Local Energy Officers

Rachel Jones is the Chair of West Midlands Association of Local Energy Officers which is a not-for-profit organisation supporting local government officers and housing professionals with a remit for reducing all aspects of the UK’s domestic-sector carbon footprint and tackling energy poverty. Rachel is an experienced energy professional specialising in the delivery of energy efficiency measures across communities and working with UK home energy policy to achieve this. Rachel has worked with numerous local authorities and other organisations to develop and embed energy and energy efficiency into their strategic plans with a focus on home energy. Rachel has been working in the energy sector for over 15 years and is CEO of Act on Energy.

Alan Dunn

Strategic Relationship Lead, IES Ltd

Alan leads on the delivery of innovate IES climate technology including Digital Twins to help companies decarbonise and make their buildings, campuses and cities more energy efficient. AIan is also responsible for the generation and commercialisation of new products for IES targeted at the engineering, renewables and sustainability market.

Ian Mather

Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Robert Heath Group

Ian has 19 years industry experience bringing a wealth of sector knowledge, Starting his career in the industry at British gas where he held several roles in both the consumer and public sector teams, latterly leading on business readiness and business development for their social housing business supporting both the PH Jones team and their clients in the transition to net zero. Ian Joined the Robert heath team in February 2024 as part of them joining Daikin, where his role is to support the business and their clients in the transition to net zero. He is a qualified retrofit assessor and coordinator with a passion for the natural environment and the net zero transition.

Steve Gapik

Managing Director , Soltherm

Steve Gapik with over 10 years’ experience in leadership positions in energy efficiency and managing obligations in British Gas, I want build on that experience in energy efficiency industry outside of utilities. I’m delighted to be able to undertake a new role as Managing Director of Soltherm and follow my passion in tackling fuel poverty, and continue the critical role improving life, health and the community outcomes and reducing carborn emissions.

Neil Whitfield

Consultant

Neil has been in the Construction, Training and Education sector for over 40 years and has built a reputation of setting and maintaining high standards.
As the founder of OSCAR-onsite he continues to work with Certification Bodies, Awarding Bodies and National Occupational Standards in developing formal NVQ Qualifications further raising standards, this ensures that installers achieve the recognition for their skills and produce high quality installations.
Cavity Wall Extraction has been of particular interest as this is key along with property condition to ensure that the insulation performs to its optimum.
Now working as an independent consultant and a Lecturer in Further Education providing expert advice on all matters of training and development within Energy Efficiency Measures and the wider Construction methodologies.
Neil has been in the Construction, Training and Education sector for over 40 years and has built a reputation of setting and maintaining high standards.
As the founder of OSCAR-onsite he continues to work with Certification Bodies, Awarding Bodies and National Occupational Standards in developing formal NVQ Qualifications further raising standards, this ensures that installers achieve the recognition for their skills and produce high quality installations.
Cavity Wall Extraction has been of particular interest as this is key along with property condition to ensure that the insulation performs to its optimum.
Now working as an independent consultant and a Lecturer in Further Education providing expert advice on all matters of training and development within Energy Efficiency Measures and the wider Construction methodologies.

Elinor Rice

Technical Director, Quidos

Elinor was employed by City Energy after completing a Master's degree in Business Economics with Finance. Elinor has been with the company as it first started utilising the Green Deal Finance Company and accessing ECO Funding. As Compliance Manager, Elinor ensures that City Energy adheres to the changing rules and regulations. She has recently become Technical Director for City Energy

Karl Drage, CEng, MEng, MIMechE, DMS, ACGI, MIOD

Chief Executive Officer, Coefficient Renewable Heating Solutions Limited

Carl Harvey

Director, My Home Survey Ltd

Carl Harvey works as an independent retrofit coordinator at My Home Survey Ltd, a business that Carl established in 2006 and now delivers a full suite of retrofit coordination services including Pulse air permeability testing, and as the senior retrofit coordinator at Osmosis ACD Ltd overseeing the PAS 2035 process within the business and promoting best practice in the industry.

Nick Miles, CIMA,CGMA

Chairman, EWI Pro & Future Homes Policy APPG

Nick has worked in the Energy Efficiency and Sustainability sectors for over 14 years, initially co-founding his own Environmental Consultancy company and currently being on the Leadership Team of EWI Pro Insulation and Render Systems (having joined in late 2015). Within EWI Pro, he runs the Commercial and R&D departments, which are ultimately responsible for bringing insulating solutions to homes and businesses around the country. Nick is also passionate about developing 'green skills' and helping improve people's participation in the low-carbon job market.

Clint Walker

Fidura Consulting

Clint is the Founder and Director of Fidura Consulting Ltd, supporting businesses across the energy efficiency, retrofit and net zero sectors with partnerships, commercial growth and strategic direction.
Having worked across operational, commercial and partnership roles within the sector, Clint set up Fidura to offer businesses experienced support without the need to appoint a full-time senior hire. His work is focused on helping his clients build the right relationships, develop new opportunities, improve their proposition and navigate a fast-changing market.
Clint’s approach is practical, straightforward and built around understanding how businesses actually operate, not just how they look on paper

Gregory Elliott

Independent

Gregory Elliott is Property Services Director for Vibrant Energy Matters, the largest EPC supplier in the UK carrying out over 160K instructions per year. He hass been involved in the EPC industry from conception, with over 10 years in the property sector and overseen many changes. The most exciting has being within the energy sector, having worked with Birmingham Council with the first go early EPC scheme in 2007 to one of the first Green Deal Advise Reports. Experience gained from working with most of the Big Six energy companies on several ECO projects has given him both insight and an understanding on the opportunity that ECO and the Green Deal brings to the industry.

Adam Jones

Head of Business Development & Pre-contract, EOn Green Funding

Adam Jones leads E.ON’s Business Development, Bid Management and Pre-Contract team for the E.ON Green Funding Solutions division. He’s responsible for developing and implementing long term projects which deliver key strategic objectives for E.ON's partnering organisations.

Frank Harris

Director, HD Services Ltd

Jane Thomas

CEO & Co-Founder, Women in Rising

Jane has worked in the energy efficiency sector for 17 years, with extensive experience delivering retrofit projects across the UK, working across the utility, supply chain and charity sectors. In 2024 Jane founded Women in Retrofit, an organisation dedicated to attracting more women into energy efficiency roles and supporting the progression of women already working within the green sector. In her current role as CEO and Co Founder of Women in Rising Green Careers, she is has created the WinR Green Skills Agenda, which is uniquely focused on how we promote the opportunities of Net Zero to women and girls across the UK; it recognises that unlocking female talent is key a part of addressing the skills shortage and successfully reaching our Net Zero ambitions.

Marc Stevens

Head of Compliance, TrustMark

Marc heads up the TrustMark Compliance team and is responsible for delivering a best-in-class quality assurance programme, that is not only fit for purpose now but also into the future. Working closely with TrustMark Scheme Providers and Registered Businesses, Marc and his team ensure help and support is provided on all compliance issues, whether navigating the evolving world of Retrofit and government obligations or the ongoing drive for improvement in standards for all trades working in or around the home.

Peter Lewis

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Peter Sumby

NEA-National Energy Action

Peter Sumby has worked at NEA, the national fuel poverty charity, since 1996 and has been Director of Operations since 2006. Peter is a member of NEA's senior management team and is responsible for the delivery of NEA's practical work programmes. These seek to demonstrate innovative ways of bringing affordable warmth to low income and vulnerable households and are delivered in partnership with local authorities, housing associations, the health sector, the community sector, energy company partners and others. Peter leads a team of with expertise in delivering energy advice, tackling fuel debt and delivering income maximisation services. Peter’s role involves developing strategic partnerships to enable the delivery of NEA’s programmes and to manage relationships with those national and local agencies with whom NEA needs to engage in order to deliver projects that tackle fuel poverty. Peter's role is also to ensure that lessons learned from project delivery are incorporated into NEA's policy development process in order to inform NEA's advisory role to government, local government and the wider energy sector.

Wyatt Conneely

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Wyatt is Programme Manager on the Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund (formerly SHDF), where he has been in post since March 2023. Wyatt has led and worked in project teams across Government major projects for over a decade, including supporting the Government response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and Brexit negotiations.