As Chairman of Rolton Group, I provide high level strategic advice to a range of governmental, public sector and commercial clients in the deployment of renewable energy within the built environment. I hold particular expertise in the areas of site-wide energy planning, zero carbon power generation, low carbon design, carbon offsetting and the application of renewable technology. I have acted as a Government advisor on several consultations and white papers, presenting to the Secretary of State on a number of occasions on the subject of renewable planning and public sector engagement. I am both a Chartered Building Services Engineer and a Chartered Member of the Institute of Energy, and gained accreditation under the Carbon Trust Consultant Accreditation Scheme for solution development, with particular expertise in the establishment of energy strategies.Director of Renewables East, the renewable energy agency for the east of England, Director and co-founder of Cool Planet Technologies, a ground source heat pump company which was sold to British Gas in November 2010, and co-founder and Director of Zerum, a renewable energy development business.Latest opinion pieces can be found here: www.rolton.com/blog