David Williams

David is a graduate Chartered Electrical Engineer who also holds qualifications in Management, Accountancy and Finance. He has been involved in renewable energy for 20 years. Following nineteen years with utility company SWALEC, he started Energy Power Resources Ltd (EPRL) in 1996 and shortly afterwards undertook a £25 million private placement, the UK's largest private placement in renewable energy. The target set by the venture capitalists was to create the UK's largest renewable energy company, generating over a 100MW of base load capacity from biomass within three years. David was Chief Executive of EPRL until February 2002 by which time EPRL had achieved its growth targets.

David co-founded Eco2 in November 2002 and led negotiations on a £100m funding deal with Good Energies Investments Ltd and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ to build a windfarm in Scotland, Wales' first commercial scale biomass project and a number of other windfarm projects. He is now leading an ambitious business plan to develop over £1Bn of biomass projects throughout Europe.

David is a member of the British government's Renewable Energy Advisory Board and was previously an Independent Grant Assessor for the DTI. He has also been a member of the DEFRA Biomass Implementation Advisory Group and is a non executive advisor to New Zealand based CE3 renewable energy fund.

David won the Champion Award - given in respect of a lifetime's achievements in renewable energy - at the Renewable Energy Association's Awards in June 2007.