Our Team

Sarah is an MRTPI Chartered Town Planner with a strong reputation of working within the renewable energy sector. She has worked with the Farm Energy Company as a consultant for a number of years, providing planning support on a range of projects, and recently joined the team to lead on in-house planning and project management.

Sarah has experience of working throughout all stages of projects, from inception to construction, including active engagement with communities and stakeholders.

Hugo joined The Farm Energy Company in January 2020 to assist with business development and project execution. Hugo was previously at Craigmore Sustainables, an institutional farmland and forestry manager, where he worked in both New Zealand and London. In New Zealand, he was part of the farm acquisitions team, sourcing and carrying out due diligence on a range of dairy and horticulture properties. While in London, Hugo was responsible for investor relations, working closely with existing and prospective investors.

Hugo grew up in Kent and went to Newcastle University where he graduated with a degree in Agri Business Management. He has a passion for real assets and is enthused by the opportunity renewable energy can provide to significant energy users.

Paul specialises in developing and managing renewable energy projects and has been responsible for facilitating and implementing the companies portfolio of wind, solar and biogas projects, taking them from conception to reality. In his renewable journey Paul has also been involved in successful site acquisition, sale and due diligence. He has also been involved in a number of projects outside of the UK including island microgrids.

Pauls strengths lay in 'making things happen', problem solving, building strong partnerships and getting results.

Aditya is an experienced, accomplished Technical and Chartered Project Professional (ChPP- December 2020) with over 10 years of international renewable energy experience in the area of energy generation, Energy storage, EV chargers and Asset Management companies with an excellent eye for detail and expertise in managing relationships with key partners. Fantastic problem solving and project reporting abilities with excellent track record with Government, NHS, and Local council Tendering projects with tight timescales. owner of 3 patents (2 group with ITER and CERN projects) and 1 individual.

• Depth knowledgeable in Sustainability & Project Management (Over 12GW) along with Risk management, Scheduling.
• Strong track record of complex technical project delivery likes of Oxford Super Hub and UK'S first Floating solar
• Further substantial project development experience, generating and progressing greenfield opportunities to Financial Close.

Ben joined The Farm Energy Company in December 2021 and was brought in as Project Manager to assist the team on project delivery and execution. Ben has four years' experience in project management within the construction industry working in both Vancouver, Canada and London, England. Ben has worked on residential, commercial and infrastructure projects during this time. Ben is excited to be part of the energy industry's green transformation.

Jens is a former utility investment banker who now owns and runs advisory practise Ikarus Capital, which is based in London and specialised in renewable energy.

Originally from a North German farming background, Jens has 25 year experience in advising and structuring finance for the European utility industry, focussing on renewables and clean power for the last 15 years.

Jens is enthusiastic to be part of the ongoing transformation of the energy industry and sees his role at Farm Energy as helping the company to facilitate access to the right sources of financing and the most appropriate risk sharing solutions.

Nigel is an East Kent farmer growing combinable crops as well as being involved in a portfolio of off farm businesses. He has a pedigree in business development and thrives on making and growing opportunities-he uses these skills to steer and grow The Farm Energy Company.

Nigel believes that renewable energy has an exciting future and will continue to grow in a post subsidy era. Direct supply agreements with significant consumers is a strongly sustainable model as it provides competitively priced renewable electricity often at discount to grid prices.

Jim is a qualified Chartered Surveyor, landowner and farmer from Kent. He was a pioneer in the renewable sector building one of the Countries first 5MW solar parks on his land in 2011. Since then he has secured planning consent for and built out over 350MW of solar. His business and financing skills have enabled the Farm Energy Company to grow, expand and thrive across the wind, solar and biogas markets. Recently Jim has expanded and converted his two on farm Biogas plants to produce 'green' gas directly into grid. He is particularly proud that all products of these plants are sold and used, including the digestate as fertiliser, the hot water as commercial heat and the CO2 recovered and used within the drinks industry.

Jim believes the USP of The Farm Energy Company is the breadth of expertise and pragmatic approach that we can bring to the sector along with a proven track record of finance and delivery.