Andrew Benfield currently leads on transport energy issues at the Department for the Economy, as part of the Hydrogen and Advanced Technologies team.
Before moving to Northern Ireland in 2018, Andrew spent 16 years at the Energy Saving Trust, working with the UK and devolved governments on climate change and energy policy implementation. He managed the national network of energy advice centres in the early 2000s and set up the first area-based insulation scheme in Scotland in 2010. In 2014, he transformed the Trust’s transport work as the creation of the first electric vehicle advice programme placed them at the vanguard of the EV rollout. From 2016 to 2018, he delivered major EV infrastructure planning projects for London’s black taxis, Heathrow Airport and ran Uber’s first trial of EVs.
His work has always involved helping individuals and businesses to decarbonise their energy consumption, demystifying difficult behaviour change or complex technical solutions to make them simpler to understand and easier to do. Andrew lives in Belfast with his partner and two children.