Jonathan Bates

Jonathan has a degree in Chemical Engineering from University College London and a PhD from the Newcastle Photovoltaics Application Centre at the University of Northumbria. He has worked in the solar PV and wider renewable energy industry since 1994 and is now Managing Director of Photon Energy.

Jonathan is currently serving his fourth, 3 year term as an elected member of the board of Solar Energy UK and chairs SEUK’s Rooftop PV Working Group. He has been a member of the Micro-generation Certification Scheme’s (MCS) PV Working Group since the scheme’s inception in 2007.