Infrata has announced that it continues to expand its service offering with the recruitment of Philip Turner and Andrew McLauchlan, both formerly of EC Harris where they were responsible for the delivery of Lenders Technical Advisory (LTA) services in the waste and renewables sectors, together with the delivery of more specialist waste and energy consulting commissions.  Philip and Andrew bring over 40 years of combined industry experience in power, utilities, infrastructure and real-estate covering design, managment, construction and commercial roles representing large utilities, developers, consultants and client organisataions, with experience in the UK, Europe, Middle and Far East.

Infrata seeks to build upon its current sector specialisms of transport and accommodation with a speicalist energy and renewables capability.  Over the last few years Philip and Andrew have advised on a number of transactions including:

• Twenty solar projects consisting of 30 ground mounted sites and 7,000 roof-top installations totalling 220 MW
• One hundred and sixty five MW of onshore wind developments
• Seven recent waste transactions including 95MW of EfW
• Three specialist RHI biomass portfolio rollouts with a captial spend of £60m
• Five anaerobic digestion transactions totalling 7.5 MW

In addition to this, they have been engaged in small waste applications for new market entrants and market entry studies for large UK contractors.

Infrata reports, "from our perspective Infrata offers a great opportunity to continue to recruit industry specialists and for us to build a market leading energy advisory business as part of a specialist tehcnical advisory firm.

"We believe we have undertaken more Renewable Heat Incentive based transactions than any other advisors and expect the market will grow in this area with the prospect that household projects will soon receive support.  in the longer term, more opportunities will be seen overseas for concentrated thermal solar projects but UK shale gas and offshore wind will mean that the UK remains a growing and innovative market."

Source: Infrata