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John Stanton BSc MIET CEng

Chair

I’ve spent most of my working life in the energy supply business, initially mainly involved with power system economics and pricing, contract negotiation and forecasting. I negotiated the contract for the supply of electricity to a number of major customers in the South East, including the channel tunnel before moving to the South West to head up a department responsible for forecasting and settlements. In this role I helped to establish a data collection company that managed the electricity data for all the major electricity customers in the country and was a main board director.  I also worked for a number of national committees, which designed the systems necessary to allow competition in electricity supplies – a World first! I then project managed the £40M systems to enable this competition in my company.

Following on from this I was commercial director for a smart metering company and then a district councillor for six years. I am now the chair of two local charities and the community library.  I’m involved in a range of activities not to mention keeping up with five grandchildren!