The award recognises Adam’s work in helping to build the profile, reach and influence of EnergiRaven — championing a smarter, more resilient energy transition that makes better use of the resources already around us.
At the heart of EnergiRaven’s message is a simple but powerful idea: the UK does not need to waste so much useful heat. Across the country, valuable heat is being lost from data centres, industry, waste facilities, waterways, geothermal sources and other everyday processes. With the right infrastructure, that heat can be captured, stored and shared through clean heat networks to support homes, communities and businesses.
Adam has played a central role in communicating this opportunity to wider audiences, helping turn complex energy system ideas into campaigns that are clear, engaging and practical.
EnergiRaven’s work focuses on helping local authorities, developers and communities avoid costly missteps and instead build resilient, fair and future-ready energy infrastructure that serves people, place and planet. This mission runs through our Resilient Energy Strategies, from heat sources and data centres to heat transmission, thermal energy storage, sector coupling and community energy.
One of the most visible examples of this work is the Heat Highways campaign, which has helped show how large-scale heat transmission systems can move heat from where it is abundant to where it is needed most. Heat Highways can collect waste heat, surplus renewable electricity converted into heat, naturally occurring heat and heat stored in large-scale thermal energy storage, then deliver it efficiently to towns and cities with high demand.
Adam has also helped champion EnergiRaven’s Waste Not, Want Not campaign, including the Top Trumps-style heat source campaign, which shines a light on the surprising range of local and waste heat sources hidden in plain sight. From oceans, canals and lochs to breweries, bakeries, data centres and industrial sites, the campaign demonstrates that the UK has a wealth of potential clean heat sources that could help reduce costs and emissions for millions of homes.
More recently, EnergiRaven’s data centre campaign has shown the scale of the opportunity ahead. Our analysis with Viegand Maagøe found that, by 2035, UK data centres could generate enough waste heat to heat more than 6 million homes — if the right infrastructure is in place to capture and transport it. The campaign makes a clear case for planning data centres not only as digital infrastructure, but as future clean heat assets that can support local communities.
Together, these campaigns reflect EnergiRaven’s wider belief that the energy transition must be practical, place-based and resilient. We need to connect heat, power, transport and industry rather than treating them separately. We need to harvest energy that would otherwise be lost. And we need to build systems that reduce reliance on imported fuels, ease pressure on the grid and create lasting value for communities.
Adam’s award is a recognition of the role that communication, business development and public engagement play in making that transition happen. Technical solutions matter, but so does the ability to explain them, build momentum behind them and bring people with us.
Through his work, Adam has helped EnergiRaven tell a more hopeful and practical story about the future of energy: one where waste becomes a resource, local heat becomes a strategic asset, and communities are supported by cleaner, smarter infrastructure.
Congratulations, Adam, on a thoroughly deserved achievement — and thank you for helping champion an energy transition that is more resilient, more intelligent and more useful to the places we live.
