Profile

Dr Mark Hinnells has returned to the ECI after 6 years managing projects and providing policy advice to Government. Mark has a wide range of expertise in the use of energy in buildings, energy efficiency measures, as well as generation technologies, both in renewables and combined heat and power (CHP).

Mark manages the Building Market Transformation programme. BMT, funded by Carbon Trust and the EPSRC, seeks to identify what policy actions are needed to reduce carbon emissions from the entire UK Building stock by 50% by 2030, given what we know of the technical options, energy markets, social trends, and impacts of climate change on energy use in buildings.

Before taking up this position, Mark was a programme manager at the Energy Saving Trust for 3 years, managing the Community Energy Programme. Community Energy triggered investment of around £200M in community heating, which utilises combined heat and power (CHP) and renewables in social housing, hospitals, universities and other public sector buildings. He also spent 3 years at Future Energy Solutions (part of AEA Technology). AT FES he provided policy advice to Government on measures to promote Combined Heat and Power, including implementing the exemption for CHP from the Climate Change Levy, and qualification for Enhanced Capital Allowances.

At his previous spell at ECI (1994-1998), Mark was a member of the DECADE team, advising the UK and EU Governments on policy to reduce energy use in lights and appliances, which led to the introduction of energy labels for a range of appliances, as well as legal minimum standards for a number of appliances.