Eaga appoints new Strategy Director
Green support services and outsourcing specialist Eaga has today announced it has appointed John Swinney as Corporate Services and Strategy Director.
A former Chief Executive Officer at leading social housing management company Pinnacle PSG, John brings with him more than 35 years of experience in both the public and private sector.
He will report directly to Eaga’s Chief Executive Drew Johnson.
John’s appointment comes as Eaga’s outsourcing work with local authorities and social housing providers undergoes rapid growth.
The company already maintains and services around 190,000 heating systems in the social housing sector. Recently it has also established itself as a key partner in the delivery of large scale renewable energy solutions, including photovoltaic systems.
With more than 5,000 staff operating across a national network, Eaga visits up to 3,000 households every working day to improve the energy and thermal efficiency of their homes.
John said: “This is a hugely exciting time to be at Eaga, as the shift to low carbon living and the wider green agenda takes hold. Making our housing stock more energy efficient is crucial if we are to hit legally-binding carbon reduction targets set by Government. Local authorities and social housing providers will be on the front line in these efforts, and at Eaga we are ideally placed to offer solutions on the scale needed.
“The deployment of renewable technologies is of tremendous strategic importance, particularly with the planned introduction next year of incentives such as the Feed-in-Tariff. We believe that allowing households and organisations to sell surplus electricity will open new funding opportunities to combat environmental and social inclusion challenges. Social landlords, for example, can use it to finance the introduction of cleaner energy to their housing stock and at the same time help low income tenants share in the benefits of low carbon technology. I will spend much of my time at Eaga exploring these opportunities with partners.”
Drew Johnson commented: “John commands huge respect within the housing sector and we are delighted that he has joined us at Eaga. His experience, understanding of our markets and established contact networks will also be highly valuable to Eaga as we continue to expand and diversify.
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Notes to Editors
1. Eaga plc is a green support services and outsourcing company. It is also the UK’s largest residential energy efficiency provider.
2. Eaga was established in Newcastle in 1990 and operates across the UK and in the Republic of Ireland, India and Canada. It employs over 5,000 people.
3. Eaga works in partnership with central and local Government, all six major energy suppliers, local authorities, social housing providers and is increasing its share of the able-to-pay private market.
4. Since its inception, Eaga has made a positive difference to over 5 million disadvantaged households across the UK, by installing energy efficiency insulation and central heating.
5. Eaga holds the contract to deliver the £1.5 billion Warm Front programme in England, the cornerstone of government's target to eliminate fuel poverty.
6. Eaga was recently appointed by the BBC to deliver the Switchover Help Scheme to ensure eligible households can receive help making the switch from analogue to digital.
7. Eaga is committed to co-ownership and is one of only a handful of UK organisations where every employee with over a year’s service is entitled to a share in the success of the business.
8. Since 2000, Eaga has invested over £3 million in the independent Eaga Partnership Charitable Trust which funds research into solutions to fuel poverty.