Who Are We

Mark Shorrock of Low Carbon Solar Ltd
Mark has been working in the renewable energy industry since 2002 and has an interest in seeing large scale UK renewable energy plants being directly owned by the general public in the vicinity of each power plant.
He founded Scottish windfarm developer Wind Energy Ltd which was sold to AES in 2006; Low Carbon Accelerator, an AIM listed early stage investor in low carbon technologies; Low Carbon Solar Holdings, a €200m investment fund investing in Spanish solar plants; and Low Carbon Group whose subsidiary Low Carbon Solar UK developed and built out 28MW of solar farms in 2011. As part of Low Carbon Solar’s activities, Mark worked with Adam Twine to seek to create a locally owned large scale solar power plant.
Mark is currently developing further solar farms which he hopes may in turn also be owned by the general public . He is also developing a large scale tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay.

Adam Twine of Westmill Farm
Adam Twine has farmed 1,200 acres at Westmill farm and as a tenant of the National Trust at Colleymore farm for over 25 years. He was one of the driving forces behind Westmill Wind Farm for many years and a founding director of Westmill Wind Farm Co-operative Limited in 2004.
Recently he has set up the Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit, a not for profit information sharing organisation, to engage with farmers about climate change and actions to reduce GHG emissions from farms. He has been active in environmental and social justice campaigning for many years and was a Parish Councillor for 5 years, and a prospective parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in the 2005 and 2010 elections. He is the 2007 recipient of the Schumacher award.

Philip Wolfe
Philip Wolfe is one of the pioneers of the UK renewable energy industry. He provides advisory services through WolfeWare Limited.
Philip has recently finished writing a book on utility-scale solar power projects for Routledge. He has installed renewable energy in his home for heating and part of its electricity.
A Cambridge first-class engineering graduate, Philip has been involved in the sector since the 1970’s when he became the first Chief Executive of what is now BP Solar. He later established his own photovoltaics company Intersolar Group, which from 1993 to 2002 was the sole UK manufacturer of photovoltaic cells. He was Director General of the REA between 2003 and 2009, and has served on the Boards of other European and British industry bodies, and advised the European Commission and the British Government. 

Mark Luntley
Mark Luntley graduated from Loughborough University in 1982 and qualified as a CIPFA accountant in 1987.
He has worked at the Audit Commission, as Head of Audit at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Deputy Director of the Western Isles Council and Director of Corporate Services at Oxford City Council. Mark is currently Project Director at Local Partnerships where he is managing a project to create an agency allowing councils to raise infrastructure finance.
A member of Baywind Energy Co-operative Limited since 1997, and interested in environmental issues, Mark also chairs the Oxford Credit Union and is a non-Executive Director of SOHA.
He is a member of the Centre for Alternative Technology, Midcounties Co-operative and the Climate Outreach Information Network. Mark chairs the Board of Westmill Wind Farm and is a trustee of the Westmill Sustainable Energy Trust.
Mark Leads on Westmill financial issues and ensures the board focuses on the key issues.  He sits as an observer on WeSET and plays an active role showing various visitors around the site.

Nicola McConville
Nicola McConville is a Corporate Finance partner at Blake Lapthorn, based in its Oxford office. Nicola established the Climate Change Sector Group at Blake Lapthorn and leads the group of lawyers from across numerous practice areas.
As head of the Climate Change Sector Group Nicola has been responsible for driving a number of the firm's initiatives and acting for a wide range of clients in the sector. She is a regular speaker at conferences, and has written several articles and a regular blog for the Low Carbon Hub.
She has advised several community groups on share offers, and recently advised on what is believed to be the first employee owned renewable energy scheme in the UK based at Cornwall’s Eden Project. She is a member of the Programme Board of Low Carbon Oxford.
Nicola is also secretary to Westmill Solar.