BasePower’s core business is the development, delivery and operation of energy infrastructure, which helps UK plc operate more profitably and sustainably.

Our team has deployed almost £200m of capital into energy-generating projects in the past 10+ years, with a track record of implementing award-winning energy centres at blue-chip logistics and industrial sites.

We help organisations who are facing delays in obtaining grid capacity, excessive energy costs and inadequate power resilience – all while trying to stay on the path to net zero carbon.

Our Team


BasePower brings together a core group of engineers, operations experts and project managers into a combined team with over 20 years experience in delivering local energy infrastructure in the UK and beyond. 

 

BasePower’s core team consists of:


Dan Poulson

Co-Founder and Director

Dan Poulson established BasePower to deliver on-site energy infrastructure that optimises both commercial performance and environmental outcomes for high energy users. He previously founded Tamar Energy, the UK’s largest developer of biogas plants, where he secured £100 million in equity financing in 2012 from a consortium led by Rothschild Investment Trust. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Biogen, the UK’s leading anaerobic digestion (AD) technology provider and operator.

A chartered engineer, Dan holds an MBA from London Business School and an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.


George Fowkes

Co-Founder and Director

George Fowkes is a Co-founder and Director, leading the company’s commercial operations. He met Dan Poulson at Tamar Energy, where he joined to lead the development of 100MW of anaerobic digestion (AD) plants across the UK and Ireland. George brings over 15 years of experience in power and infrastructure development, including six biogas combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and two onsite energy projects, with a total of £130 million in deployed financing.

George holds an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, an MBA from INSEAD, and is a Chartered Engineer with the UK’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).


Robin Hardy

Co-Founder and Projects Director

Robin Hardy joins Dan and George as co-founders of BasePower. He leads the technical side of the business, overseeing the engineering design of 12 energy centres on UK industrial manufacturing sites, and is responsible for developing utility systems for over 28 million square feet of new logistics space. Prior to BasePower Robin worked with blue chip international food and drink manufacturers in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, focusing on energy and water reduction programmes.

Robin is a Chartered Engineer and holds an MBA from Imperial College London.


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Lysander Tennant

Finance Director

Lysander manages the project funding and operational finances for the portfolio of BasePower projects. He is an investment professional with a mix of experience in private and public equity as well as project finance. Strongly analytical and a good commercial thinker, Lysander is well-versed in negotiating and transacting in novel and challenging business environments. He has an excellent knowledge of the emerging environmental and clean energy sectors as well as the oil and gas sector. 


Sacha Grodzinski

Director of Delivery and Operations

Sacha met BasePower’s co-founders at Tamar Energy, where he was responsible for the procurement, construction, commissioning and first year of operations for Tamar’s AD plants. Prior to this, Sacha spent 10 years managing design, materials handling and process improvement projects in the UK, US and China. He served as chairman of the UK development charity Engineers Without Borders for five years.

Sacha has a Masters in Engineering for Sustainable Development from Cambridge University and an M.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.


Dave Holden

Operations Manager

Cornerstoning the engineering function at BasePower, Dave Holden manages the technical development and construction of projects. Originally from the oil and gas industry, he then trained as an Turbine Maintenance Engineer with GE. He comes to BasePower after 15 years experience of commissioning projects in the UK, Indonesia and offshore.


Tony Cutner

Senior Project Manager

Tony Cutner is a qualified electrical engineer who is highly experienced in delivering complex capital projects. His multidisciplinary background includes research and development, industrial automation, and production in the automotive, utilities, packaging, FMCG and pharmaceutical sectors, and he has worked in Europe, the Middle East and North America during his career.


Steve Jeffers

Director of Business Development

Steven has successfully delivered multi-technology energy solutions for the transition to net zero over the last 20 years. Most recently he was Business Development Director for Infrastructure at Clean Energy Capital, a real estate renewables developer. He has also held positions as Head of Sales at Siemens, and Strategic Accounts Program Manager at E.On UK.


Cheren Myers

Commercial Manager

Cheren leads the commercial operations to ensure the successful transfer of BasePower’s growing project portfolio into full-scale commercial function. As a Chartered Civil Engineer her career has spanned the design, management and construction of large transport civils projects delivered on behalf of Atkins and Jacobs.  More recently she has moved to the renewable energy sector where she was responsible for setting up her organisation as a new Charge Point Operator, and managing the programme delivery of EV charging projects from inception, design and installation through to commercial operation.


Mel Jones

Head of Power Infrastructure

Mel has over 30 years' experience in M&E construction specialising in critical and fault-tolerant infrastructure. His work has spanned data centres, hospitals and healthcare networks. Projects have included multiple CHP energy centres, boiler installations, emergency generation and heat reclamation.


 

Trevor Smith

Site Operations Manager

Trevor spent 20 years working for General Electric in the Middle East before joining BasePower in 2022. With over 30 years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry, he has worked across offshore, wind turbines, and aircraft engines, holding management and field roles ranging from installation and commissioning to EPC projects.


Jonathon Kerr

Project Engineer

Jonathon joins BasePower from UK Power Networks where he spent ten years as a senior design engineer. He has extensive working knowledge of mutiple power systems and their design modelling.  His most notable projects include developing a new IDNO ICP offering and delivering multiple upgrades for green recovery projects. Jonathan has a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Exeter.

 


Tomasz Jankowski

Project Manager

An experienced engineer and project manager, Tomasz’s 25-year career has encompassed the procurement, contracting, installation and commissioning of incineration facilities, dual-fuel boilers, biomass, biogas and chillers. BasePower recruited Tomasz from E.On UK to manage and commission our growing share of new construction projects.

Evi Nikitaki

Document Controller

Evi has over eight years’ experience in site administration and document control, contributing to major projects such as Wimbledon No.1 Court, Google HQ, and HS2 Euston. Her analytical skills have streamlined processes, enhanced team efficiency, and addressed complex data management challenges across construction and M&E sectors.

 

Taiwo is an electronic/electrical engineer specialising in power systems engineering. He joined BasePower from one of the UK’s licensed power distribution network operators (DNOs) where for over 12 years, he was a lead Connection Design Engineer and largely responsible for DNO/NESO/NGET Interface including scheduling, modelling and management of authorised projects for transmission impact assessment (TIA). He has deep knowledge and vast experience in resolving grid connection challenges.

Taiwo Giwa

Project Manager


For our logistics customers we solve the energy ‘trilemma’ of how to obtain adequate energy capacity for their occupiers’ use, at parity cost and carbon footprint of the grid, and allowing further deep reduction in carbon emissions. A proven systems integrator, we combine efficient low-carbon and renewable generation, battery and fail-over capacity into projects that can operate both in mains-parallel as islanded modes. This allows developments to complete and occupy to schedule, and occupiers to deliver on their ESG obligations. 

Meanwhile we have also built and operate award-winning Combined Heat and Power energy centres at some of the UK’s largest manufacturing sites. Our clients in these industries operate on thin margins and are adversely affected by the UK's rising power prices. Our projects for them deliver system carbon reductions and consistent energy cost savings.

Our projects are built with customers’ capital, or can be fully-funded by BasePower. Our work often incorporates further site upgrades to improve resilience and capacity. Recently this has included new electrical switchgear, upgrades to back-up facilities, boiler and storage tank replacement.

The capital assets we deploy are sourced from household names in energy technology with the very best design and support capabilities. This includes Rolls-Royce Power Systems, Clarke Energy, 2G and Powersystems UK. Where possible we seek trusted local contractors to provide civil works and mechanical integration, to benefit from their detailed knowledge of customer sites.

We work in close partnership with our clients throughout the process. This begins with looking at your development and energy use forecasts, available capacity, existing uses of energy and carbon reduction plans, through to developing an energy project that will perfectly meet your needs. 

A typical deployment takes 6-12 months from contract signature to switch on depending on the nature of the assets deployed.

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See the organisations that we have worked with

Our projects help logistics park developers and manufacturers to decarbonise

 

Rooftop Solar PV

Demand capacity & generation

Heat Efficiency & CHP

Energy Partnerships


Technology and capital assets are sourced from household names in the energy generation market with the very best design and support capabilities such as Clarke Energy, 2G, Powersystems UK and Bairstows Mechanical Services. Where possible we seek trusted local contractors to provide civil works and mechanical integration, to benefit from their detailed knowledge of customer sites.

BasePower works in close partnership with our clients throughout the process. This begins with looking at your existing uses of energy and carbon reduction plans, through to developing an energy project that will perfectly meet your needs. 

A typical deployment takes 6-12 months from contract signature to switch on depending on the nature of the assets
deployed.

Our work

The BasePower team has developed more than 30 energy generating schemes for a range of clients in the public and private sectors. Our successful projects have included CHP development, biogas and advisory work.

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