Pete Capener

Co-founder and Managing Director 

Pete is responsible for organisational leadership, strategic financial management and investment, overseeing the sustainable growth of the business and the development and implementation of Board strategy.

Pete has worked on sustainable and community energy for 40 years, having led the early development of the Centre for Sustainable Energy as Chief Executive, where he originally started in the mid-eighties working with schools and communities.

Since resigning from CSE in 2002 due to family illness, Pete worked as an independent energy advisor with a strong focus on community action. In 2010 he was heavily involved in setting up BWCE.
Pete is Interim Chair of Community Energy England and is co-chair of a Ministerial advisory group on community energy.
He has an MSc in Energy Resource Management.

Pete is a regular cyclist, a meditator and a carer for his long-term ill partner.