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Cliff Willson is founder and Managing Director of Bombus Energy Solutions Ltd, bombusenergysolutions.co.uk (2018-Present); an energy consultancy; and (formerly) Bauhaus Energy Ltd, bauhausenergy.co.uk (2021/2022).

He was also partner director of Advance Further Energy Ltd, advancefurtherenergy.co.uk (2018/2023);

where AFE provided consultancy services to a range of clients including The MCS Service Company (MCSSCo); MCS Charitable Foundation (MCSCF) and Solar Energy UK (formerly Solar Trade Association).

More recently he was also Non Executive Director (NED) for Flexible Energy Oversight Registration Body (Flexi-ORB) Flexi-Orb (Flexible Energy Oversight Registration Body) (2018/2019). Flexi-ORB delivers the safe, controlled deployment of energy saving, generating and storing products (such as solar PV, insulation, boilers, energy storage, heat pumps, electric vehicle energy storage, EV charging points etc).

Cliff is an engineer by background and temperament having both BEng (Hons) in Electrical, Electronic Engineering and MSc in Renewable Energy and the Built Environment.

Minimum 20 years of professional experience
Background in Sales, Consulting, Business Development, Finance and Analytics
Comfortable talking and supporting senior-level executives
Problem-solving skills
Good communication and negotiation skills
Entrepreneurial spirit
Interest in cost reduction
Analytical mind
Independent work style and an ability to best manage time
Great team player

Cliff specialises in compliance of low & zero carbon and Renewable Energy (RE) technologies and Electrical Energy Storage (EES) in the built environment, for domestic, community and non-domestic clients.

He is an active Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) where he is also a volunteer mentor. He is registered with the Engineering Council (ECUK).

Cliff is member of Governance Group SGG/0 BEIS Energy Storage Health & Safety Governance Group. An expert member of IEC Electrical Energy Storage (EES) TC120 working groups "2" and "4" and BSi committees ESL/120 Electrical Energy Storage and GEL/082 Photovoltaic Energy Systems.

Cliff was awarded Galileo Master Certificate in Hydrogen Energy, through Renewable Energy Institute [2022].

He was APEL DECS Assessor, accredited through Elmhurst Energy Systems Ltd [Assessor ID EES/022438] and an ESOS Assessor. Cliff was also a member of Energy Institute College [2015/2022].

His expertise includes:

- performance gap analysis;

- technical specification & compliance;

- building energy modelling

- site assessments;

- market, commercial and technical research;

- strategic planning and business development;

- specification and bid writing;

- program delivery;

- energy and project management and extensive client relationship and account management.

Cliff worked for National Energy Foundation (NEF) between 2008 and 2018 carrying out and delivering research projects and providing consultancy services focussed on electrical and thermal energy use and greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions.

Sustainable Development Goals

Cliff has been aware for a long time that the decisions we make can have a major impact on what our environment and the world we live in will look like in the future. Cliff has therefore always tried to manage his activities accordingly.

When the UN and world leaders joined forces in 2015 to agree on 17 common global goals and 169 associated targets to achieve sustainable development in the world, which resulted in “Agenda 2030”, Cliff felt that this was quite right and in line with his values; what he stood for; and how he used to work.

Through Agenda 2030, the UN and the world’s leaders have jointly committed themselves to, among other things, eliminating extreme poverty and hunger, contributing to better health and education, reducing inequalities and injustices, fostering sustainable industries and communities, promoting peace and justice, and solving the climate crisis.

Cliff was already working on many of the issues covered in the 17 goals and 169 associated targets well before Agenda 2030 became a concept, but he now has a better structure and a clear objective for his continued work in the form of the defined goals.

Using Agenda 2030 as a basis, he has tried to find out how well he fulfils these goals within each part of his businesses and tried to find out what more he can do in order to drive these issues forward.

He is taking Agenda 2030 very seriously, and he certainly wants to be involved in making a difference and influencing and creating the change that is necessary if we all are to achieve the goals set for 2030.

Even though he knows that he has done a lot, Cliff realises that there is still a great deal to do. He also realises that this is urgent. We only have a few years to act!

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Cliff is a member of a number of national and international committees and technical working groups including MCS' Electrical Energy Storage Standard (EESS) and Solar Photovoltaic groups.

He is also former member of Solar Energy UK (formerly Solar Trade Association) "Small-Scale Energy" and BRE Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) Industry Forum (SAPIF) “Home Energy Storage” working groups.

Cliff provides independent expert witness support on various microgeneration renewable energy technologies to a number of clients including the Police and Trading Standards.

In his capacity as an expert witness Cliff has assessed and written numerous investigative reports and his evidence has been used in successful prosecutions against a number of individuals and companies convicted of mis-selling microgeneration equipment.