Allan Jones (engineer)

Infobox Scientist


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name = Allan Jones
birth_date =
birth_place = Woking, United Kingdom
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field = Engineeing, Combined Heat and Power systems (CHP)
work_institution = London Climate Change Agency
alma_mater =
known_for = CHP work in Woking and London, Ecology
prizes = MBE in the 2000 new year's honours list for services to energy and water efficiency

Allan Jones MBE, is an engineer who pioneered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems in the United Kingdom from 1990 to the present.

Biography

Jones attended Sheerwater secondary modern, Woking; Guildford College of Technology and the Central London Polytechnic. During his early career he spent 18 years with Greater London Council and Inner London Education Authority, working on development and regeneration projects.

In 2000, Jones was awarded an MBE in the new year's honours list for services to energy and water efficiency.

Woking Borough Council

During the 1980's he started working at the Woking Borough Council. He worked as the coucil's energy services manager, director of the council's Energy and Environmental Services Company Thamesway. In 1990, two year before the Rio Summit, he took his initial CHP proposal to the borough council. By October of that year, the proposal effectively became policy. 81 decentralised energy systems had been install in the borough council area by the time of Jones departed in 2004.

In 2001, Woking won the Queen's Award for Enterprise for the development of local sustainable energy systems.

London Climate Change Agency

In 2004, the then Mayor of London, Ken Livingston recruited Jones to head his new climate change initiative. Jones has headed the London Climate Change Agency since that time.

On 22 May 2008, Jones appeared in an interview, shot in London, as part of Australian ABC's "Catalyst" programme (2008 Episode 14). The story featured the LCCA's plans for implementing decentralised energy systems in London. This lead to Jones being invited to visit Sydney as a guest of the City of Sydney and the New South Wales state Environment Minister. A public talk 'City Talk: Green Transformers, revolutionising energy generation for a Sustainable Sydney' was held on Tuesday 22 July 2008 at the Theatre Royal, MLC Centre, King St, Sydney. The visit also included media coverage, like that on ABC Radio National's Saturday Extra program.

External links

* [http://www.lda.gov.uk/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.803 Profile on London Development Agency site]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2005/jun/29/environment.interviews Guardian 2005 article 'Wake up call from Woking']
* [http://www.lcca.co.uk/ London Climate Change Agency homepage]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2244790.htm Australian ABC's 'Catalyst' UK Microgen story] . Streaming video [http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/asx/Cat_EP14_UKmicrogen_hi.asx asx] [http://www.abc.net.au/science/broadband/catalyst/ram/Cat_EP14_UKmicrogen_hi.ram ram]
* [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/audio.asp City Talk: Green Transformers, revolutionising energy generation for a Sustainable Sydney] and [http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/podcasts/Documents/2167036-v1-SYDNEY_CITY_TALK_22_JULY_2008.pdf pdf of overhead]
* Australian ABC Radio National's 'Saturday Extra' [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2008/2314663.htm# transcript] and [http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/sea_20080726.mp3 mp3 podcast]
* Australian ABC Radio's 'The World Today' [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2310848.htm transcript] and [http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/twt/200807/20080722-twt6-climate.mp3 mp3 podcast]
* [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/07/22/1216492455066.html Sydney Morning Herald coverage of July 2008 Australian visit]