When did you join Everoze? July 2017

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I worked for SSE in their Offshore Wind Operations team. I was a performance engineer and worked mostly on the Greater Gabbard project (which was at the time the biggest offshore wind farm in the world) as well as Beatrice to a lesser extent.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I work 5 days a week, mostly from the Glasgow office, as well as from home or from our Aberdour office when I want to go somewhere a little greener. I spend most of my time doing due diligence, this is most frequently for offshore wind transactions, but also includes onshore wind and battery storage projects too. When not doing due diligence I get to use the knowledge I’ve acquired working on over 30 offshore wind transactions in strategy work, which is challenging and fun. As well as commercial work, I am involved in lots of company activities. I am a member of the company finance team and take on roles in recruitment campaigns and company tactics quite frequently. I also spend time helping colleagues with their development.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Trust is the most important part of working for Everoze. This permeates every aspect of the company, from our flat hierarchy, to our open book approach to salaries (and every other area of the business), to our company strategy and most importantly to how we treat one another. Ownership is also very important and unique. This isn’t just our ownership in the company, but also ownership of our careers. In a flat hierarchy you can choose what you want to do and which areas you want to spend more time on – this is encouraged and supported by colleagues.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? I’ve been trusted to take my own approach to development (rather than being told by a manager what they or the business want of me) and I’ve been encouraged and supported by my colleagues as they too can benefit from my career development. Everoze has provided me with opportunities on a daily basis where I can test myself and improve. Everoze also allows you to work closely with very experienced people, whom you would otherwise not get an opportunity to work with in more traditional organisations.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? Without a doubt working with my colleagues. Everoze is a caring and trusting environment – we all look after each other and do what we can to make sure work doesn’t become too much.

When did you join Everoze? I joined Everoze in October 2022.

What were you doing before joining Everoze? Before joining Everoze, I had been working for three years. First, as a spot power trader in the electricity market while controlling and monitoring renewable energy plants. After that, as a regulatory affairs technician for a large utility company.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? In a typical week, I am able to work on technical projects to provide a good quality service to our clients, but I am also involved in management related activities.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? At Everoze, everyone can be part of the decision-making process, allowing everyone to have a voice. This also involves our own career path choice, taking into consideration the employee’s skills and ambitions.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? Everoze allows me to work in projects located in different countries and with different team members. In my opinion, by working this way, I have developed my organizational and communication skills, as well as learnt from all of my colleagues.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? I enjoy the trust that we have on each other based on everyone’s desire to provide a good quality job, which builds an amazing working environment.

When did you join Everoze? September 2019

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I started working for Everoze as a graduate. I had just finished my Sustainable Energy MSc degree at the University of Glasgow, which I completed after finishing a degree in Physics BSc at the University of Aberdeen. Before going to university I played professional football over a period of 3 years for Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I work 5 days a week from the Glasgow office usually, but sometimes from home. I work closely with my solar colleagues who are based in Bristol, and across Europe (Lyon, Paris, Madrid, Germany and Italy). During my first year, I mainly produced operational monitoring reports that review Client’s asset performance, fault management, and maintenance requirements, and supported on many due diligence areas. I now regularly work as a project manager for due diligence projects, often for investors who are either looking to buy into, or sell out of solar projects in the UK and Ireland and have a good network of clients who I like to work with.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Having come to Everoze as a graduate I can only compare Everoze to companies my friends and course mates work for.  The environment here is very positive and encouraging and its really good to be surrounded by senior engineers who enjoy their work. If we see problems or opportunities to improve things, we’re encouraged to drive that change ourselves. The transparency and openness at Everoze enables your ideas to be heard which makes you feel a valued as an employee.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? I think the key to my development at Everoze relates to exposure and responsibility. Working at a smaller sized organisation provides a lot of freedom to gain experience in many areas of the business. Everoze also allows individuals to take responsibility if they want to make improvements. For example, I was able to help create the Early Career Group which focused on allowing early career individuals to have a space where they could grow as a group by discussing challenges, celebrating success, and having a support network with colleagues at a similar stage in their career.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? My colleagues. I’m privileged to be able to work with a great bunch of like-minded, driven, and enthusiastic Everozians.

When did you join Everoze? I joined Everoze in September 2021.

What were you doing before joining Everoze? Everoze is my first permanent job after my engineering degree. I had several internship experiences in between 4 and 6 months before that in the field of photovoltaic with a developer and in a engineering and design company.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I am currently based in Lyon, France and I am specialised in solar. As a consultant, no two weeks are ever the same as each client has their own unique needs that we must address. Nevertheless, I work most often on yield studies, company due diligence and site visits.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Everoze is different in many ways from traditional companies. The flat hierarchy allows for a lot of autonomy, flexibility, good work balance and encourages proactivity. Employee ownership also makes it possible to involve all the company’s employees in the life of the company on questions relating to its strategy, development, and sustainability.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? Working at Everoze gives me access to a wide range of knowledge from working with people who have been in the renewable energy business for over 15 years. It also allows me to benefit from coaching, mentoring and international development opportunities due to the company’s international presence.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? I think that working in a company with people who have the same values as me regarding the future vision of the world around us, i.e. to have a sustainable world for future generations, is the thing that I appreciate the most and that really motivates me.

When did you join Everoze? I joined Everoze in March 2020, just a week before the start of global lockdowns. So I worked from home during my first three months.

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I was already working as a consultant for another company. Before that, I was a solar- and wind project operations engineer and I also have a short experience in development.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? There is no typical week to be honest, which, in my opinion, make you thrive the most and keep you constantly learning and motivated. I mainly work from the Paris office on energy yield assessment, contract review or other due diligence related activities, but I can also wake up early in the morning to cross the entire country to visit a wind or a solar farm. The nature of work is always frequently changing as we follow the creativity of our customers, developing new types of technologies in all regions of the world.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Everoze is nothing like any other company I have experienced before. First of all, it’s a fully employee owned company, which in itself makes it a rare and treasured organisation. We have no hierarchy so our culture is based on trust and people. We decide which projects we work for. We have control of the whole chain of a project from commercial activities, through core consultancy work, up to invoicing and administrative tasks. We have full control of our role within the company and we make it evolve as we see fit. This is really unusual in a positive way.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? Everoze, through participation and transparency, helps you understand how a company works at each level. You can be involved in financing, recruitment, remuneration, strategy, human resource, investments, strategy, R&D, tactics… It is a real booster for your career in that sense.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? Flexibility, trust, people, the atmosphere and, of course, the most important thing, being actively involved in the energy transition and development of renewable energies.

When did you join Everoze? I joined Everoze in November 2022

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I joined Everoze right after I finished my Masters degree in Energy Engineering. Prior to that I did some work on small scale off grid solar and battery storage EPC projects as an installer and later on as a project manager

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? A typical week for me consists of doing some data analysis for operational monitoring reports, due diligence reports, attending client meetings, catching up with colleagues, going through training materials, listening to music and doing subtle dance moves while I work.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Everoze is quite different from other companies I’ve worked for. Apart from the fact that Everoze is in a different part of the world, the ‘no bosses’ flat structure and culture of trust are very important distinctions.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? I would say being given the opportunity to take control of my career is the biggest career development help that Everoze has given me. Knowing that I can try as many things as I want before deciding what I would like to specialise in, is such an incentive to learn more and dive deeper into the path I want my career to take.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? The most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze is most certainly the people. It’s amazing how you can just walk up to anyone and ask for help, even if they couldn’t personally help, they would be able to put you onto someone who can. Or, when colleagues ask if you want something when they are popping to the shops, very nice people all round!

When did you join Everoze? September 2018

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I worked for 12 years at a large technical consultancy, who also works in renewables. This was my first job and during this time I worked for 6 years in Glasgow, before moving to Paris to work for 6 more years before joining Everoze.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I work 5 days a week, mostly from the office in Paris and sometimes from home. I work in the solar team, managing projects and contributing to other projects managed by colleagues. My typical tasks include technical audits of solar projects developed in France and abroad, providing services to developers, owners, investors and lenders. The most enjoyable aspects of my work are spending time on site to inspect PV plants and identify potential issues, working on projects with interesting specificities (technology, location), and managing commercial relationships with recurring clients.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? Everoze’s partnership concept is unique and allows employees to become owners in the company. Other positive differences include the flat hierarchy and the trust which is placed in employees to do the right thing and manage themselves with little oversight. The remuneration procedure is also great as we have an open-book approach to salaries which builds trust and aids personal development. We also care about fairness, which is illustrated by our profit-share scheme which is distributed evenly across the company, regardless of seniority.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? Before joining Everoze I was getting increasing frustrated at how process focused my work was becoming at my previous company. This made our work less enjoyable and very inefficient. Work had become less unenjoyable as I felt the company was not prioritising investment into renewable energy. Working at Everoze is the exact opposite in many ways. Working at Everoze has given me back the pleasure in my work which I had partly lost.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? You are free to manage your project with complete trust from the rest of the company. Our one team approach also allows for easy collaboration with other offices without complex procedures. This means there is no competition between teams and offices and the entire company shares the same objectives.

When did you join Everoze? I joined in 2015, not long after the company was established

What were you doing before joining Everoze? Before joining Everoze I worked for another wind energy consultancy, mostly developing technology strategy and running their Scottish office.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I’m based Aberdour and I work 3 days a week. What I do day-to-day varies. I mainly focus on strategy work (mainly offshore wind) but that can be anything from government innovation strategy, to supporting companies looking to break into the sector, to supporting investors building portfolios of exciting start-up companies. For the last couple of years, I have been focusing mostly within Quaybridge, (our offshore wind development spin-out) where I lead work on differentiation – tailoring offshore wind development activity for specific global markets.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? A lot, but in one word – Autonomy – In Everoze you have full control (and responsibility) for what you do, both on a day to day and a long term career basis, at all levels of the company. This freedom gives me the chance to choose my own path, set my own challenges and own my own mistakes within a team of people who want to see their colleague succeed. Everoze also allows me to time to manage work around my non-executive director role for the offshore wind growth partnership.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? My colleagues at Everoze set the bar high, not just in terms of competence but in terms of impact and ambition. I have repeatedly seen my team mates set goals, for themselves and the company activity, that I would think unachievable and then through hard-work, self-belief and competence meet these goals – has made me believe I can do the same.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? The freedom and support (and sometimes challenge needed) to create new initiatives, teams and business areas. I love the process taking an idea and bringing it to life to become something real and tangible.

When did you join Everoze? June 2021

What were you doing before joining Everoze? Before joining Everoze I worked for a renewable energy consultancy doing analysis work on a range of pre-construction wind projects onshore and offshore.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? Whilst my week varies a lot, the common theme is using analysis to help clients make informed decisions that impact the energy yield of wind farms, whether as part of their development process or due diligence. My work week is therefore usually spent working with data, and discussing findings with colleagues and clients.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? The culture in Everoze is very open. With the flat structure and employee ownership, everyone can weigh in on decisions. This creates a culture where I feel a lot more engaged in the direction of the company than in other companies I have experienced.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? At Everoze I have the opportunity to get involved in a variety of jobs, and a lot of the work we do is bespoke to fit our clients’ needs. I have therefore been able to develop through getting involved in different jobs and taking on different responsibilities.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? Spending time with and learning from good colleagues who are passionate about what they do.

When did you join Everoze? March 2018

What were you doing before joining Everoze? I was Head of Renewables Advisory South East Asia and Head of Strategy &Policy for Asia Pacific based in Singapore, leading an international cross-functional team of 10.

What does a typical week look like for you at Everoze? I’m based in Germany and work from home. I work a flexible 20 hour week. The projects I work on are mostly solar due diligence (DD) projects, usually as the Project Manager or Project Director. I enjoy working on platform acquisition DD jobs (M&A), where I can apply my techno-commercial skills in the fields of corporate DD. I also regularly work in strategy and technology innovation support, where our scope is tailor-made for clients wishing to enter new markets, technologies or business models around the world. In addition to delivering work to our clients, I get also involved in our internal Everoze self-managed processes, such as the Everozero net-zero pathway, where we set our own decarbonisation path and invest in carbon removal projects. I often write thought leadership pieces, for PV Magazine in particular, where I get to highlight new or challenging trends. This sometimes leads to speaking at conferences or  becoming involved in industry working groups.

What makes Everoze different from other companies you have experienced, culturally? For me the key difference is the responsibility we all have, in winning & delivering work, in managing our teams without hierarchies, in our joined decision making with regards to all company related decisions. While I spend much less time on internal processes and reporting lines, I feel much more empowered in shaping the company on all fronts, not only the ones I work day to day on.

How has Everoze helped with your career development in a way other companies couldn’t have? I have been able to spend more time creating (rather than focusing on internal reporting and processes), and developing new services and evolving strategies. It has allowed me to The biodiversity tool, sustainable agrivoltaics industry working groups or the learn how to more selective on clients. It feels empowering, satisfactory and gives the feeling of being able to make something with impact.

What is the most enjoyable thing about working at Everoze? Being able to work flexibly, part-time, and be able to do things that have an impact and create change.