Green Living Advice Zone powered by OVO Energy
The Green Living Advice Zone is a dedicated area which will focus on the key topics that will help you to decarbonise your home. Experts will be available to answer your questions and help you to find the best solutions for your property.
Visitors will be able to book on the day on a first-come-first serve basis with experts in each topic, covering all areas of your property.
The advice categories cover:
• Smart meters
• Insulation
• Solar panels
• EV charging
• Heat pumps
• Saving water
Green Living Advice Zone experts
Solar panels - Caroline Bannatyne
Caroline has extensive experience within the energy industry in customer facing roles, 8 years with SSE before joining OVO in January. Recently joined the Smart Home Team where she has...
Smart Meter - Lexii Welsh
Lexii is one of our Technical Experts who works on ensuring our Smart Metering estate is working as expected. She uses systems across SSE and OVO Brands to send requests...
Smart Meter - Christopher Whitehead
Former Sergeant in the British Army for 20 years. He retrained as a Gas Engineer after leaving the armed forces and joined SWALEC as a Smart Meter Installer in 2015...
Smart Meter - Matthew Norman
Matt is one of our Smart Energy Engineers empowering our members on their energy efficiency journey. Delivering Smart Meter installations, Matt works to help our members understand their energy usage...
Solar panels - Jamie McKee
Jamie has worked in the renewable industry for several years, across domestic and commercial/ utility sectors. Working within project delivery and has successfully completed several multi-domestic FTCH projects. Company description:...
Smart meter - David Johnson
David has been at OVO since 2017 starting in smart meters and then progressing into EV chargers and Air Source Heat Pumps. He’s currently a field operations manager in the...
Insulation - Wayne Taylor
Wayne has worked in Domestic energy efficiency for over 20 years. Over this time, and whilst With energy company and national contractor Wayne has delivered high volumes of insulation measures...
Smart meter - Gayle Batley
Gayle has extensive experience working within the energy industry for over the past two decades. Currently at OVO, Gayle leads a change and delivery capability that is focused on delivering...
Insulation - Robert Jacobs
After graduating university with a Geography degree, Rob has always been involved in sustainable development and ways to improve the built environment through reducing carbon emissions. He now works for...
Heat pumps - Ken Bone
I personally have been installing, repairing & maintaining heating systems for over 30 years. I always installed systems that were as efficient as possible, on this journey I came across...
Saving water methods - Paul Ravnbo-West
Paul has a passion for sustainable consumer technology. For over twenty years he has worked with leading home appliance brands including Hotpoint and Smeg. He has launched several eco-products that...
Insulation - Leigh Fairbrother
Leigh has over 20 years of expertise in architecture, energy efficiency, affordable housing, and sustainable solutions. Most recently, Leigh has been responsible for delivering retrofit and home insulation projects with...
Smart meter - Christine Uzzell
Christine has extensive experience within the energy industry in both leading customer facing teams to deliver customer support and advice, through to managing transformational business and technical programmes of work....
Heat pumps - Sharon Louise Louth
Groundtherm covers all aspects from design to supply, and the installation for your project. We are happy to work closely with yourself and other contractors associated with your project to...
Smart meter - Laura Manning
Laura has worked as a smart energy engineer within OVO for 5 years and is now a Quality Development Coach that supports teams nationally. Her role is to ensure the...
Solar Power - Charlie Clissitt
Raised in the rolling hills of North Yorkshire and now based in the murky streets of London, Charlie has been researching and writing about the home energy market for nearly...
Solar panels - Laurence Dennis
Laurence works within OVO’s Smart Home Support team, responsible for a wide range of innovative trials and smart energy tech. Company description: OVO Energy was founded in 2009 and redesigned...
EV chargers - Asta Umbrasaite
Asta works within OVO’s Smart Home Support Team and currently focuses on EV Chargers and Installations. Company description: OVO Energy was founded in 2009 and redesigned the energy experience to...
EV chargers - Dave Harris
Following Dave’s extensive experience in electrical installation he ventured into the renewables sector in 2021. In his current role as EV technical manager he provides technical support to his colleagues...
Insulation - Neil Donald
Neil was the Business Development Director for the UK’s largest insulation manufacturer for 5 years in that role he oversaw the development, introduction and sales of several insulation systems for...
Smart meter - Alex Dyer
Alex has worked in the energy retail industry for 5 years for Boost and OVO initially in Customer Care and then providing Second Line support, assisting with booking smart meter...
Heat pumps - Greg Lee
Greg has worked within the renewable and sustainability market for over 8 years. Project managing domestic to commercial level ASHP, PV, GSHP and Biomass. From supply and install to full...
EV chargers - Chris Britton
Chris has worked within the Automotive and Energy sectors for the last 7 years, and has extensive experience in the electrification of transport at scale, total cost of ownership, running...
EV chargers - Craig Summers
Craig has worked within the Energy industry for close to 20 years across various sales and partnerships areas as well as White Label Partnerships working with some of the UK’s...
Solar panels - Tony Butler
Tony has worked for over 20 years across the private, public and community housing sectors, driving residential energy efficiency and housing quality standards. During this time, Tony has built a...
Solar panels - Brett Pearson
Since 2008, Brett has worked in product marketing and project/programme management within UK and US decarbonisation industries. Solar PV, heat pumps, energy efficiency (loft, wall insulation & behavioural programmes) are...
Insulation - Nik Nelberg
Nik has worked in design and contracting in London’s residential refurbishment and extension sector for over 25 years. Specialising in energy efficient home upgrades and client-led residential design & build,...
Heat Pumps - Geoff Ellison
Geoff is co-founder of Dragon Drilling who specialise in drilling boreholes for water supplies and ground source heating systems. Company description: Dragon Drilling specialise in drilling water boreholes as well...
Saving water & Insulation - Rob Bohm
Rob is the CLPM Heat & Sustainability Manager. He manages a small in-house consultant team who offer independent heating & energy planning advice, as well as costing planned energy reduction...
Heat Pumps - Josh Jackman
Josh has analysed and reported on eco-friendly, energy-saving home improvements for the past three years. His data-driven work has been featured on the front page of the Financial Times and...





























