Nina Skorupska has worked in the energy industry for more than 30 years.
Beginning as a researcher, with a PhD in the efficiency of burning coal, she has also been a power station manager and held senior leadership positions across Europe for the RWE Group.
Now, the chief executive of the Renewable Energy Association, she talks to Prospect about her varied career and the role of the REA.
Meet Prospect's new organiser for renewable energy
John Storey recently started working for Prospect as its renewable energy projects organiser. Here he writes about his early weeks in the job and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Prospect lends its influential voice in support of onshore wind power
Prospect senior deputy general secretary Sue Ferns is one of the figures quoted in an initiative by RenewableUK to highlight widespread support across the UK for onshore wind power.
Unions call for 'Just Transition' commission
The TUC has published “A just transition to a greener, fairer economy” – a roadmap to meeting the needs of working people in the transition to a low-carbon economy.
AROUND THE WEB
Stories from around the web that may be of interest for professionals working in renewables.
The announcement that the UK's first major carbon capture plant will be built in Cheshire made a lot of headlines earlier this summer. It is just one of nine such projects that will benefit from a £26m government fund.
The Telegraph has a report (£) on a British start-up company that is pioneering the use of "cryogenic" liquid air that claims to be the "holy grail" of cheap solar and wind energy storage.
The Engineer's annual salary survey suggests that engineers working in the renewables and nuclear sectors enjoy, on average, a higher renumeration than their counterparts in oil and gas. It also ran a poll asking how to grow the talent pool in the renewable sector.
A railway line in Hampshire is believed to be the world's first to be powered directly from a solar farm.
There's more to renewable energy than solar panels and wind farms. Waste heat from the London Underground is set to provide hot water and heating for 1,000 homes in north London. And human waste from this summer's Reading festival was converted into renewable energy.
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