Colin MacKenzie

Colin is presently Principal Smart Grid Consultant at Smarter Grid Solution bringing over 30 years’ experience from previous consulting, management and business development roles in the electricity energy sector, including electricity distribution, transmission, generation, oil & gas, industrial, nuclear & defence. With a MSc. in Electrical Power Engineering Colin is passionate about the use of new technologies to drive all aspects of the transition to low carbon energy systems to limit the progression of climate change. A former founding director of the Friends of the Super-grid organisation which promoted the need for a European super-grid to move low carbon energy throughout Europe. Colin brings technical, regulatory and economic skills and experience in electricity networks along with stakeholder engagement and management experience from his consultant and business development management roles at several large global consulting, certification, manufacturing, enterprise software and utility companies.