ABOUT US
PowerGreen is the commercial division of Renewable Connections, an award winning, market leading renewable energy developer in the UK. PowerGreen offers a tailored, end to end service, to ensure your energy journey is seamless and efficient, with several flexible funding solutions at your disposal.
The Renewable Connections team are unlocking hundreds of megawatts of solar and storage, increasing energy independence in the UK, and supporting the Government to reach its net zero targets.
*Statistic taken Jan 2023
MEET THE TEAM
Our team is one of the most experienced energy teams in the UK, having developed over 1GW of energy projects globally since 2010. Innovation is in our DNA. Our in-house team have expertise across a wide range of competencies including land, grid, project design, planning development, communications, political and stakeholder engagement, finance, and human resources. Out technical expertise covers solar, battery energy storage, commercial scale hydrogen, data centres, off-taking surplus energy and operations and maintenance.
Andrew Newman
Director
Andrew is a co-founder and Director of Renewable Connections, responsible for the company’s Innovation & Growth. A qualified charted accountant, Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in the energy sector. In addition to his role in Renewable Connections, Andrew is also a founding director of Armstrong Capital. Prior to Armstrong, Andrew was the finance director at Low Carbon Investors where he wrote the business plan for the UK’s first feed-in-tariff fund, and prior to that worked in Deloitte’s project finance team where he advised on large-scale energy and transport infrastructure project, including the Czech Government on its proposed sale of its electricity industry in 2001.
Andrew has also worked at Triodos Bank in the Netherlands where he was the Senior Investment Manager for the bank’s Solar Development Capital fund, where he was responsible for the fund’s Asian investments.
Andrew has a first-class degree from Oxford University.
Jonathan Plumb
Commercial Director
Jonathan is our Commercial Director, leading the company’s commercial division and PowerGreen team.
Jonathan has over a 8 years’ experience working in the renewable industry, ranging from the origination and delivery of ground mount and C&I rooftop solar schemes at Lightsource Renewable Energy, to the development of gas to power plants in the UK at Suncredit.
Over the course of his career in renewables, Jonathan has led and managed teams responsible for securing and delivering in excess of 1.25 GW of generation assets throughout the UK.
Jonathan holds a BSc (hons) degree in Real Estate Management from Kingston University.
Sophie Browning
Business Development Manager
Sophie is a Business Development Manager at PowerGreen, specializing in the development of large-scale solar PV solutions. With a background in sustainability and energy from the University of St. Andrews, she has a strong technical foundation in renewable energy and a passion for delivering innovative, commercially viable solar projects.
Her career began at SolarKal in New York City – a commercial solar advisory that streamlined project design, vendor selection, and contract negotiation, giving her an entry point into the solar industry.
Since joining the business August of 2023, Sophie has played a key role in the design and delivery of rooftop solar PV systems exceeding 1MWp, as well as private wire solar schemes of over 85MW for major energy users.
Sophie holds a MA (Honours) Sustainable Development and Social Anthropology.