Engineer. Futurist. Father.
Solar engineer, leader and technologist. I've spent more than a decade across renewables and digitalisation tackling climate-related challenges, and my children are what keep me motivated to solve them.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit.”
Now
In 2025 I founded Apex Renewable Engineering in Glasgow, an independent engineering practice for solar PV, battery storage and hybrid assets. It works for the lenders, investors, owners, developers and solicitors who need a straight answer: is the asset what it is said to be, what should it produce, and what happens when it doesn't?
I started in technical due diligence at SgurrEnergy in Glasgow, then spent seven years in Copenhagen on the other side of the table: designing utility-scale PV at European Energy, then, at Better Energy, building the systems that run an operating fleet, leading digitalisation and running plant engineering.
Projects
Tools for solar engineering, and software I've written for my own home.
My independent engineering practice for solar PV, battery storage and hybrid assets: technical due diligence, asset health checks, portfolio reviews, owner’s engineering, contract review and expert witness work. Its two websites, the main site and a residential site for homeowners, are static sites I built and run on Cloudflare Pages.
A PV energy yield simulator built on pvlib. A Python engine does the modelling; a browser front end lays the system out on a site map, models shading in a 3D editor and produces PDF reports. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, and powers the free solar yield check on the Apex residential site.
A self-hosted map of my home network. It finds every device on the LAN, names the manufacturer from its MAC address, guesses what kind of device it is, and draws the result as a top-down network diagram or an Obsidian-style graph.
Experience
2025 to now
Apex Renewable Engineering, Glasgow
Independent engineering for the lenders, investors, owners, developers and EPCs behind solar, storage and hybrid assets.
2024 to 2025
Better Energy, Copenhagen
Led the four plant engineering teams of a utility-scale developer and owner-operator: energy systems, design and drawings, energy yields, and civil engineering.
2021 to 2024
Better Energy, Copenhagen
Built the platforms the business used to run and analyse an operating fleet: performance, reporting and numerical modelling across finance, development, operations and design.
2020 to 2021
Better Energy, Copenhagen
Responsible for the systems that collect and analyse operational data, and for the performance of the parks.
2018 to 2020
European Energy, Copenhagen
Design across the solar pipeline and technical input to EPC, O&M and financing contracts. Assets in the UK, Egypt, Australia, Canada, Italy and Portugal.
2015 to 2018
SgurrEnergy (now Wood), Glasgow
Technical due diligence and owner’s engineering for lenders, funds and developers; plant design optimisation, yield studies and data analytics.
2012 and 2014
National Grid, Warwick, Leeds and Boston MA
Network planning and transmission line engineering.
Education
More on LinkedIn and the Apex About page.
LinkedIn is the quickest way to reach me. For engineering work (due diligence, asset health checks, owner's engineering or expert witness) go straight to Apex.