Who I Am

I am an energy infrastructure strategist with more than two decades of experience across distributed generation, combined heat and power, biogas, microgrids, and resilient power systems. I have spent that time working at the intersection of technical engineering, commercial deployment, and international market development across Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

I am a senior executive of one of the world's leading specialists in the engineering, installation, and maintenance of gas engine power plants. I have been part of the data center energy discussion since at least 2016, when onsite power was still an emerging discussion viewed as reserve power to the local energy grid, rather than an industry-defining challenge. I have recently written Five Nines and Fast Power, a book on making better energy decisions in data center infrastructure investment.

I see that infrastructure is not a collection of assets; it is a dynamic system that must evolve with technology, economics, regulation and society.

What I Focus On

The central question I keep returning to is this: how do you build power infrastructure that must be reliable from day one, commercially defensible over a decade, and capable of evolving as the energy landscape changes around it?

That question applies whether the context is a manufacturing campus in Northern Nigeria, a biogas plant serving an Indian city's organic waste, or a hyperscale data center navigating grid constraints in the United States. The specifics differ. The underlying infrastructure challenge does not.

My work focuses on distributed energy systems, hybrid power architectures, CHP, and the practical application of resilience thinking to facilities and infrastructure that cannot afford to get energy wrong. I am particularly focused on the intersection of AI-driven data center demand, grid constraint, and the role of onsite and distributed generation in bridging the gap between speed-to-power and long-term decarbonization.

How I Got Here

My route into energy was not a straight line. A postgraduate background in environmental technology coupled with innovation - an early attempt to commercialize a water treatment innovation and a first job setting up a business developing a novel Israeli waste management technology - taught me early that the distance between a working innovation and a deployed infrastructure system is vast, and that the gap is usually filled by policy, economics, politics, and operational reality rather than engineering alone. That lesson has shaped how I think about infrastructure ever since.

From biogas, waste-to-energy and landfill gas in the early 2000s, through islanded power development across Africa and Asia, to distributed power and microgrids for commercial and industrial users in the United States, the thread connecting my work has been the challenge of deploying infrastructure that actually performs in the real world, not just in a feasibility study.

I joined the Prime Minister's trade delegation to Africa in 2018, covering South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya. I have spoken at the United Nations COP23 and COP26, at Microgrid Knowledge, the Distributed Energy Conference, Data Cloud Cannes, DICE, Data Center Dynamics, and DataCentres North, among many others. I sit on the Council of the World Biogas Association and serve as Vice President of the Cogen World Coalition. I joined the COGEN Europe Executive Committee between 2020-21.

What This Site Is For

This site brings together original commentary, external conversations, and a record of past engagements spanning more than two decades. It is not a portfolio. It is an attempt to make the thinking behind infrastructure decisions more transparent and more useful, for investors, developers, operators, and policymakers navigating a sector that is changing faster than most of its participants expected.

The articles here are written from the perspective of someone who has spent twenty years deploying infrastructure in difficult markets, not observing it from the outside. Where I reference external events or organizations, I attribute them clearly. The views are my own.

Current Role: Group Business Development and Marketing Director, Clarke Energy, a Rehlko Company

Industry Affiliations: Vice President, Cogen World Coalition, Council Member, World Biogas Association Energy Working Group, iMasonsClimate Accord Energy Working Group, COGEN Europe.

Professional Credentials: Chartered Environmentalist, Society for the Environment Fellow, Chartered Institute of Marketing Fellow, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management MBA, Manchester Business School, Masters Degree in Enterprise with Environmental Innovation, Manchester University.