13 March, 2024, Lisbon | GWEC is delighted to announce Adam Bruce’s appointment as its first ever Senior Fellow. The position will see Adam convey his deep information of renewable power and local weather diplomacy to help GWEC’s international crew, working to help corporations, communities and governments as they ship wind power tasks throughout the globe.
From his position as UK CEO of Airtricity, the place he oversaw the event of the UK’s earliest onshore and large-scale offshore websites, to his time at SSE as Head of Sustainable Improvement by means of to his work at Mainstream Renewable Energy, Adam has constructed up greater than 15 years of expertise of delivering tasks that ship on wind power’s potential.
GWEC is targeted on rising and increasing markets the world over. Adam’s distinctive expertise in progress markets and experience in regulation, coverage and growth, allied with a profession constructed on eradicating limitations and setting clear pathways for supply, strengthens GWEC’s work as we enter an period of motion following the tripling renewables pledge at COP28 in Dubai.
Ben Backwell, CEO of the World Wind Vitality Council, stated: “It’s a privilege to welcome Adam Bruce to the GWEC crew. This decade can be marked by a speedy acceleration in wind power deployment all over the world and having Adam’s expertise and information to help our work with governments and establishments can be enormously precious.
“Adam has been on the GWEC board since 2016, and have become Vice-Chair in 2022. His help at board stage has been invaluable, and we’re delighted to convey his information extra on to our work all over the world.”
Adam Bruce, GWEC Senior Fellow, stated: “I’m delighted to be taking over this new position with GWEC, to assist speed up the deployment of wind power globally, by sharing a number of the experiences I’ve garnered during the last 20 years. The worldwide business has been set a transparent goal of tripling put in capability, and I’m eager to assist ship on that objective.”
Additional Particulars:
Adam Bruce is at present vice-Chair and Senior Fellow of the World Wind Vitality Council.
Adam was UK CEO of Airtricity earlier than its sale to SSE in 2008. In that position he led a crew that consented and constructed a number of the UK’s first onshore wind farms and consented one of many first large-scale offshore wind farms..
Adam chaired RenewableUK, the UK’s commerce affiliation for renewable power from 2007 to 2010, serving to to guide the business by means of two Vitality White Papers, the EMR course of and the deployment of offshore wind at scale. On the similar time, he was Chair or vice-Chair of three EU renewable power and grid commerce our bodies.
After SSE’s acquisition of Airtricity in 2008, Adam joined the utility to assist with the mixing of the 2 corporations, performing as Head of Sustainable Improvement at SSE. In late 2008 he joined the administration crew of the newly shaped Mainstream Renewable Energy, as World Head of Company Affairs, a task he maintained till 2023.
As a member of Mainstream’s ExCo, Adam suggested the CEO and the Board on geopolitical and regulatory danger, market reform and sustainability in addition to model and popularity.
In 2013, Adam was appointed by UK and Scottish Ministers as the primary business chair of the Offshore Wind Programme Board, set as much as take away limitations to funding in offshore wind, and to (efficiently) chart a course to the supply of low-cost offshore wind at scale in UK waters. He joined the Board of GWEC in 2016 and have become its vice-Chair in 2022. Adam was additionally a member of the steering board of the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Affiliation (IRENA) Coalition for Motion, and of the RE100, set as much as encourage large-scale company sourcing of renewable power.
Adam is a member of the event board of Oxford College’s Maths, Physics and Life Sciences Division, and of the College’s Vitality Community. He’s a Trustee of the Nationwide Museums of Scotland, and a member of the Royal Family in Scotland, by which position he helped organise the mendacity at remainder of the late Queen Elizabeth II, and the Presentation of the Honours of Scotland to King Charles III in Edinburgh in July 2023.
Adam has an MA (Hons) in Historical past from Oxford College, the place he was President of the Union, and an LLB in Legislation from the College of Edinburgh.
Adam is married and lives in Edinburgh.
