Team

Jake is a renewable energy professional with 18 years’ experience covering renewable energy feasibility and development, finance, procurement, company and asset management and providing strategic advice. He has overseen CfR’s organic growth and the development and finance over £60million of community solar projects.

Prior to founding CfR he was Chief Operating Officer of Green Peninsula, an advisory company helping large corporations to develop and implement their own renewable energy strategies, including working with a major international retail and manufacturing company to develop and implement a EU1billion wind power investment strategy. Prior to that he worked in the Ernst & Young Renewable Energy team in Exeter.

Jake is a volunteer director of a number of the local energy enterprises CfR has helped to set up. He was awarded the ‘Community Energy Champion’ award by Community Energy England in 2018. He has an MSc in Renewable Energy Policy and Economics from Imperial College and a 1st Class MA in Social Anthropology from the University of St Andrews.

Tom has over 14 years’ experience working on commercial-scale renewable energy projects across the UK. His experience covers all elements of project development, finance and operations. At CfR Tom has managed the development/acquisition and financing of a number of MW-scale community solar projects and oversees CfR’s company and asset management services.

Prior to joining CfR, he spent 5 years managing the development and financing of a portfolio of wind projects totalling in excess of 60MW at Broadview Energy and prior to that worked with Jake at Green Peninsula on wind projects in France, Portugal and Poland.

Tom is a volunteer director of a number of community energy enterprises CfR has helped to set up and has a BSc (hons) in Renewable Energy from the University of Exeter.

Margit has over 10 years’ experience in renewable energy and HV transmission asset management and technical consultancy.

She joined CfR from New Zealand where she was responsible for the planning and delivery of maintenance works on the national grid.

Prior to that she worked for 6 years in Germany in MW-scale wind and solar technical consultancy and asset management, including managing a portfolio of over 50MW of wind farms across Germany and France.

Margit grew up in Germany and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on energy generation from the Technical University Munich.

Harry is a renewable energy engineer with experience in technical and financial feasibility assessments, project development and ongoing company and asset management. 

His technology experience covers roof-top and MW-scale ground mount solar PV, storage and wind power. His development experience covers land agreements,  planning and EIAs and grid connections. He has experience in local energy demand assessments, generation and demand modelling and grid constraints analaysis. Harry is keen to help our local energy clients to develop their enterprises and maximise their local impact.

Harry has a 1st Class Masters degree in Energy Engineering with the University of Exeter in Cornwall. He is a committed environmentalist and climate change campaigner.

Tom is a renewable energy engineer with experience in technical and financial feasibility assessments, project development, procurement and ongoing company and asset management.

His technology experience covers roof-top solar PV, MW-scale ground mount solar PV, small-scale wind, EV charge systems and storage. 

Tom joined CFR from an asset management role at an industry-leading solar income fund. During his time with that company, he was responsible for the management of over 40 solar sites, utilising contractor expertise to maximise site profitability while ensuring conformity with contractual and financial compliances. Tom has a 1st class degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Exeter where he received the DNV-GL Award for best dissertation in wind energy.

Charlie is a renewable energy engineer with experience in technical and financial feasibility assessments, project development, procurement, finance transaction management and ongoing company and asset management.

His technology experience covers roof-top solar PV, MW-scale ground mount solar PV and solar car parks. His development experience covers land agreements, PPAs, planning and EIAs and grid connections. He has helped co-ordinate debt and community finance transactions.

Charlie has an MSc in Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Exeter and a BSc (Hons.) in Geology from Kingston University. 

Fee is a finance professional with over 14 years experience across different sectors including construction, media and recruitment.

As finance administrator for CFR, Fee manages book-keeping (in Xero) and payment administration for CfR’s clients, and supports Tom and Sam with the preparation of financial reports and management accounts.

She is currently studying towards her level 3 Association of Accounting technicians diploma (AAT) and hopes to gain MAAT status in the next year.

Ella is an environmental scientist, with experience in the both the environmental and renewable energy sectors. In her role at CfR, she provides support to local energy enterprises. As the Communications and Impact Coordinator, Ella oversees community benefit activities, working with volunteer boards to establish social impact objectives. She brings a diverse skill set, including report writing, networking, communications, project management and proficiency in website and social media management.

Ella holds a First-Class Honours degree in Environmental Science (BSc) from the University of Exeter.

Sam qualified as Chartered Accountant with ICAS in 2005, having trained with Ernst and Young within their audit practice before moving to a division of their corporate finance team focusing on renewable energy and waste projects. More recently he has worked for Mole Valley Farmers as the Financial Controller for their Agri business before forming Westerly Accountancy. Sam has a wide range of experience in business modelling and helped develop the CFR project model.