Energy Prospects Board
NICK JONES
Chairman
Nick Jones is a solicitor based in Scotland. He has had a long career in private practice and is a former partner, now consultant, at Morton Fraser MacRoberts, a Scottish Law Firm with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow. He has over 40 years’ experience in all aspects of commercial property work including property development, acquisitions, disposals, commercial leasing, security and investment work. For the last 25 years his practice has increasingly focussed on the renewables sector, especially onshore wind farm development. He is ranked as a Leader in the Field for Energy & Natural Resources in the 2024 edition of Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession.
Nick lives in Edinburgh.
ROD BLUNDEN
Rod Blunden was a Chartered Engineer for over fifty years and remains a Fellow of the Energy Institute and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was Chair of Energy Prospects for its first ten years and now acts as a Director bringing a wealth of technical and corporate experience in renewable energy to complement that of his fellow Board members. During a period of 14 years with National Wind Power (now part of RWE) he had responsibility, as Head of Projects and Procurement, for the construction of some 21 wind farms and subsequent involvement in the planning and development of many more projects. He is now Director of an independent renewable energy consultancy specialising in wind energy and related H&S activity. He was a founder member of the BWEA (now RenewableUK) H&S Steering Group and held a position here for 15 years.
For eleven years he ran his own consultancy business in renewable energy including wind, hydro and solar including holding senior roles for several Energ4All Co-ops and as well as across the wider UK and overseas industry.
Rod lives in the Chilterns area where he is involved with conservation in his spare time.
E4A DIRECTOR – MIKE SMYTH MBE
Mike is a solicitor specialising in corporate and commercial law and was a partner at Lawrence Graham in London for more than 20 years. Mike joined the board of Energy4All as a non executive director responsible for legal affairs in 2008. Passionately concerned about the environment, Mike chaired the board of Friends of the Earth Trust until 2012. Mike was also a co-founder of Keepsafe Limited, which grew to become a substantial self-storage warehouse business, and of The Arbory Trust, a pioneering woodland burial site.
