Ms Hawthorn, a partner at Shepherd and Wedderburn, has been vice-chairman
at the industry organisation since 2013.
She has more than 30 years of legal experience with recent work including
the consent of four offshore wind farms planned for UK waters.
She replaces the outgoing Ronnie Bonnar, the managing director of Repsol
Nuevas Energias UK.
Gordon MacDougall, managing director for western Europe at RES, moves to
become vice-chairman at Scottish Renewables.
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1 Comment
Richard Phillips · July 14, 2015 at 12:25 pm
Renewable energy is essentially a scientific and engineering based industry. How can a Chairman who is a career lawyer make judgements in these areas. The laws of nature come much before those legal profession. The industry is not about generating electricity, just lots of money, and the public purse is viewed with a greedy eye.
Vote of no confidence from a retired research scientist, 35 years in nuclear energy.