Community Energy Scotland Members’ Conference Event 2023: The role of communities in delivering fair and inclusive decarbonisation.
Conference report coming soon!
See event details in our conference announcement link.
The Community Energy Scotland Team
Community Energy Scotland is proud of its team of dedicated professionals who are constantly striving to help communities and businesses achieve their goals. With their combined skills and experience in both technical and social fields, this canny crew are committed to supporting and delivering projects, from inception to the final product!
Covid19 Health & Safety: Our staff continue working from home to minimise risk to themselves and others.
Alex Afjool
Innovation Development Officer
Alex is an Innovation Development Officer working on the delivery of Heat Pumps Plus and ReFLEX.More Info +
Anna Philbrick
Community Innovation and Support Officer
Anna is part of our Carbon Neutral Islands team supporting islands to become carbon neutral by 2040. The project involves working with communities on individual islands to develop their own climate plans.More Info +
Beatriz Maroto
Outer Hebrides Support Officer
Beatriz is working with the teams on RIPEET and Community Power Outer Hebrides. She will also be involved with other local projects.More Info +
Becky Ford
Community Innovation and Support Officer
Becky is CES' Island Community Action Network Development Officer with the Island Centre for Net Zero (ICNZ) project. She also continues to contribute to the Carbon Neutral Islands project (CNI).More Info +
Cameron Duff
Technical Support Officer
Cameron applies his knowledge and experience gained across various sectors to help benefit communities through technical guidance, feasibility studies and other research.More Info +
Cath Curd
Membership & Communications Officer
Cath manages our membership and public communications as part of her role maintaining engagement between CES, our members and our wider network .More Info +
Cat McGinley
Accelerator Officer
Accelerator Officer within the Island Centre for Net Zero team is to identify funding opportunities, secure resources, and conduct horizon scanning to support action on decarbonisation within the community sector.More Info +
Charlie Black
Carbon Neutral Islands Off-Grid Island Officer
Charlie's role focuses on supporting off-grid island communities as part of the Carbon Neutral Islands project.More Info +
Darragh Keenaghan
Carbon Neutral Islands Project Manager
Darragh heads up the Carbon Neutral Islands team working closely with communities and partners across the islands to help move towards net-zero in a fair and just way.More Info +
Eibhlin Lee
Trading Manager
Eibhlin manages our trading subsidiary, which owns a number of generating assets that provide a financial return to support the charitable work of CES.More Info +
Gordon Gilfillan
Development Manager
Gordon identifies and develops new CES programmes and sources of income by working closely with the rest of the team and our members.More Info +
Hannah Macdonald
Outer Hebrides Community Officer
Hannah forms part of the Islands Centre for Net Zero team working closely with communities in the Outer Hebrides supporting their decarbonisation plans.More Info +
Hannah Sharp
Carbon Neutral Islands Communications Officer
developing and delivering a communications strategy to engage participating island communities in the project.More Info +
Kristopher Leask
Policy Manager
Kris is responsible for driving external policy to enable our Members to fulfil their potential in decarbonisation.More Info +
Laura Walker-Knowles
Finance Officer/Company Secretary
Laura deals with all financial and administrative matters for Community Energy Scotland and Community Energy Scotland Trading.More Info +
Leanne Fischler
Community Energy Data and Digital Officer
Leanne explores and develops the role of data as part of just and progressive community energy projects.More Info +
Mark Hull
CTO
As CES' chief technical officer, Mark leads on the development of new Local Energy Economies projects in Orkney and oversees the delivery of our Orkney projects; ReFLEX, BIG HIT, Surf ‘n’ Turf, Heat Smart Orkney and SMILE.More Info +
Matthew Logan
ICNZ Outer Hebrides Manager
Matthew heads up the CES Islands Centre for Net Zero team. He is also responsible for the project's activities in the Outer Hebrides.More Info +
Pamela Holden
Assistant Finance Officer
Pam supports our Finance Officer with administration and helps in other operations areas when required.More Info +
Peter Long
Project Manager
Peter is part of the Orkney team working on the Heat Pumps Plus and ReFLEX projects.More Info +
Raina Bergasse
Carbon Neutral Islands Project Officer
Raina is part of the Carbon Neutral Islands team and is working on the plans to replicate the project.More Info +
Rona Mackay
Head of Operations & Governance
Rona's responsibilities are HR, running the Board and Management Team and ensuring a well organised, coherent overall approach to delivery of all our operational projects.More Info +
Rosie Brown
Project Officer N76 Energy in Motion
Rosie works with a collaboration of CES members in the Nith Valley, Dumfries & Galloway, helping to develop sustainable local transport solutionsMore Info +
Ryan Thomson
Project Officer Net Zero Living Shetland
Ryan is part of the Net Zero Living team and his focus is establishing rural energy & transport hubs in Shetland.More Info +
Victoria Mackay
Project Operations Manager
Victoria coordinates and manages the delivery of CES' portfolio of projects.More Info +
Zoë Holliday
CEO
Zoë is based in Glasgow and is experienced in third sector management and strategy in Scotland and abroad, in a variety of sustainable development fields.More Info +
