Chris Goodall

Chris Goodall is a successful energy expert, author and an authority in the field of new energies. The independent expert has the talent to communicate complex scientific ideas in an engaging manner to his attendees. He gives specialized talks about climate change, energies of the future and sustainability. Chris Goodall has worked for many of the worlds largest media companies in locations around the world. After leaving Harvard Business School, he was also a full member of the UK Competition Commission, now part of the Competition and Markets Authority.

As an author of several successful books and writer for Guardian Environment Network and other energy websites, such as Abundance and The Ecologist, Chris Goodall knows how to communicate ideas clearly and tersely. Additionally, he runs two websites himself. Carbon Commentary and its weekly newsletter cover topics across the energy technology and finance around the world and Solar Forecast, gives a uniquely accurate forecast of UK solar power output over the next five days and serves the electricity trading market.

Chris Goodall has built up a strong expertise within the field of energy technologies and gives regular talks about global approaches to low carbon energy generation, low carbon heat, electric cars and battery storage as well as carbon capture and geoengineering. He has spoken at most of the large festivals across the UK, including Hay, Cheltenham, Oxford and Bristol Science. He has given presentations at the Science Museum, the House of Commons and the British Library.

Chris Goodall is often asked to give opinionated statements of why the conventional view is mistaken; he always explains his views professionally with data and arithmetic analysis. In his talks, he uses clear historical analogies without loosing the focus on a qualified audience of normally well-informed middle-aged engineers.

Chris Goodall is a strong believer in research and supports that the world can now become a world of low fossil fuel use but reasonable prosperity for all. He is an optimist about the energy future.