Juliet Davenport

Juliet Davenport OBE founded Good Energy, one of the UK's first 100% renewable electricity suppliers, in 1999 at the age of 31. The first female CEO of a UK energy supplier, at a time when only 2% of the power on the UK’s electricity grid came from renewables and the entire industry could fit into a room above a pub, Juliet was going against the grain. In Good Energy, she aimed to make it possible for everyone to play a part in the solutions to climate change. Customers remained at the heart of the innovations Good Energy and Juliet drove through, leading to an explosion in home generated solar power, the acquisition of the UK’s first wind farm and a creation of a previously non-existent market for distributed small-scale clean power. Stepping away as CEO in May 2021, Juliet remains a director of Good Energy and sits on the boards of a string of companies that are helping tackle the climate crisis. She is chair of solar innovator Atrato Onsite Energy, whose flotation in November 2022 made it the first company with an all-female board to list on the London Stock Exchange. Her book, The Green Start-Up: Make Your Business Better for the Planet, is an essential toolkit for the modern-day entrepreneur. The very first book of its kind that blends environmentalism with entrepreneurship, The Green Start-Up leads us through the most pressing questions facing any company: from how to fuel the business to how to hire ethically; from how to market sustainably to delivering your product in an environmentally friendly way.