Juliet Davenport

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Juliet Davenport OBE (born 1968 [1] ) is a British businesswoman. She founded and is the former chief executive of Good Energy, a renewable energy company in the United Kingdom.

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Origins and education

Davenport was born in Haslemere, Surrey, in 1968. [2] [3]

She read physics as an undergraduate at Merton College, Oxford before taking a master's degree in economics and environmental economics at Birkbeck, University of London. She also worked for a year at the European Commission on European energy policy and at the European Parliament on carbon taxation. [4]

Career

Davenport began working with Energy for Sustainable Development, an environmental consultancy. While there, she ran technology models and analysed policies on renewable energy from countries around Europe. [5]

In 1999 Davenport set up Unit[e], a subsidiary of the Monkton Group, of which she later became CEO. In 2003, Unit[e] was renamed Good Energy. The company has won several awards, including being twice named a Sunday Times Best Green Company, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust’s Outstanding Contribution to the Environment 2009 and The Observer’s Ethical Award for best online retail initiative. [6] In 2012, Davenport was named as PLUS CEO of the year. [7]

Davenport was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2013. [8]

In March 2021 the podcast Great Green Questions launched with Davenport as host. On the series she speaks to a variable panel of celebrities, experts and comedians about the issues of sustainable living. [9]

From 1 May 2021 Davenport stepped down as CEO of Good Energy, [10] and she left the company's board in 2022. [11] She holds a number of non-executive directorships [11] and is chair of Atrato Onsite Energy, a company which installs solar generation on roofs of commercial buildings. [12] [13]

Davenport has been a trustee of the Energy Institute professional membership body since 2019, [14] and in July 2022 was appointed as its president for a three-year term. [15]

Published works

Personal life

Davenport was married to Mark Shorrock [now divorced][ citation needed ] and has a daughter and a stepdaughter. [2] Shorrock is an entrepreneur in renewable energy production and was a leading proponent of a tidal generation scheme using Swansea Bay, which the UK government considered in 2018 to be not financially viable. [16] Previously, Good Energy had bought a £500,000 stake in Shorrock's company in return for an option to buy 10% of its generated power. [17]

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  2. 1 2 Tim Webb, The Good Life still means Sustainability, The Times, 10 December 2012.
  3. ↑ Emma Sinclair, How Juliet Davenport went from science to chief executive, The Daily Telegraph, 14 January 2013
  4. ↑ Mark Tran, Ethical powerhouse, The Guardian, 25 June 2004.
  5. ↑ Good Energy website, Juliet Davenport, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Good Energy web-site, Our history, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  7. ↑ Growthbusiness.co.uk web-site, 2 March 2012 (accessed on 11 February 2013).
  8. ↑ Cabinet Office press release, New Year Honours 2013, accessed on 11 February 2013.
  9. ↑ "Launching my new podcast, Great Green Questions". Juliet Davenport. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  10. ↑ "Good Energy announces appointment of new CEO". Good Energy. 7 April 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  11. 1 2 Grundy, Alice (20 May 2022). "Juliet Davenport steps down from Good Energy's board to pursue portfolio career". Current. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
  12. ↑ Ambrose, Jillian (1 January 2022). "Juliet Davenport: Good Energy founder spreads her wings and her expertise". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  13. ↑ Makortoff, Kalyeena (25 October 2021). "London Stock Exchange poised to list first company with all-female board". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Energy Institute: Trustees". Charity Commission. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  15. ↑ "Renewables pioneer Juliet Davenport appointed Energy Institute President". Energy Institute. 4 July 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
  16. ↑ Vaughan, Adam; Morris, Steven (25 June 2018). "Government rejects plan for £1.3bn tidal lagoon in Swansea". the Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  17. ↑ Gosden, Emily (6 March 2016). "Meet the man who wants to be Britain's first tycoon of tides". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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