External Positions
- Commissioner, Commission on Scotland's Energy Future, Scottish Government, 2013 - 2014
- Specialist Advisor, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, House of Commons, 2012 - 2013
- Specialist Advisor, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee, House of Commons, 2011 - 2011
- Chair, Technical Advisory Group, Persistence Factor Methodologies, Carbon Trust, 2010 - 2012
- Specialist Advisor, European Union Select Committee, House of Lords, 2008 - 2008
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Chair of British Institute of Energy Economics, BIEE, 2014 - 2015
- Vice-Chair, British Institute of Energy Economics, 2013 - 2013
- Council Member, British Institure of Energy Economists
- Fellow, Energy Institute
- Council member and Chair of Energy Advisory Panel, Energy Institute
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Head of Technology and Policy Assessment, UKERC
- External Examiner, University of Sussex
Industrial Connections
- BP Plc, Reports on wind power, wave and tidal power and others
- Carbon Trust, Numerous projects. Most recently management of 'Cost and impacts of intermittency (joint with UKERC)
- DTI (Dept Trade and Industry), Markal modelling work, renewables innovation review working papers and numerous small contracts
- Greenpeace, Reports on nanotech, advice on policy developments, scoping study on the npower juice fund
- Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, Consultant to the 2002 Energy Review
- npower, Management of the juice fund for wave and tidal power
Editorial Boards
- Insitution of Civil Engineers 'Energy', Editorial Board Member, 2007 - 2009