We back ambitious renewable energy founders solving the climate, decarbonisation and energy access challenges of our time, combining capital with operational firepower to help them scale into industry leaders.
Capital and operational firepower for the renewable energy leaders of tomorrow.
Intrinsic Energy converts the long backlog of clean infrastructure opportunity into programmes that institutional capital can actually buy. Operator led. Capital aware. Built for longevity.
Eight interlocking capabilities. Structured for institutional capital, delivered by operators who run real assets.
Utility scale solar, wind, hybridised generation, distributed and grid scale battery storage.
Origination, structuring and delivery of investable generation assets across the UK and Brazil. Co development with established IPPs, contracted offtake routes and grid connection management end to end.
Hydrogen, district heat, private wires, grid balancing and flexibility, alongside microgrids, backup and sovereign capability for critical and defence infrastructure.
The connective tissue between generation and demand. Heat networks, hydrogen offtake, demand response and resilience assets that keep critical sites operational, secure and grid responsive.
Whole asset retrofit, BIPV, MEP and onsite generation, paired with verifiable carbon credits, biodiversity net gain and nature based offsets.
Industrial estates, commercial portfolios and public sector estate, decarbonised as one programme. Capital outcomes wrapped with measurable nature gain and accredited environmental market value.
Shoreside power, airside electrification, port logistics and the wider blue economy.
Where industry meets the coast. Cold ironing, electrified handling, clean fuels supply and inland waterway corridors built around UK Freeports and Brazilian deep water ports.
Sustainable data centres, energy intelligence platforms, asset performance AI.
Renewably supplied compute campuses paired with digital twin, predictive maintenance and dispatch optimisation. The intelligence layer for clean infrastructure operating at scale.
Biomethane, advanced bioenergy and circular feedstock partnerships.
Greenfield production sites, mandate compliant offtake structures and circular feedstock partnerships across UK Freeport corridors and Brazilian agricultural and waste streams.
Holistic structuring, M&A and capital raising. From investment evaluation through to funding, governance and delivery.
A founding discipline of the platform. Project SPV design, blended finance, institutional and family office capital, governance frameworks and post close delivery oversight.
End to end sourcing, cost reduction and logistics across UK and global ports, Freeports and inland corridors. Including supply security for transition critical minerals such as lithium, copper and rare earths.
The connective tissue across the platform. Long term sourcing agreements, Freeport based processing and onward distribution, with strategic positions in transition critical materials.
Our operational platform stands on long established relationships with leading clean technology developers, engineering firms, public bodies and academic institutions across the United Kingdom, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.
Operating relationships with leading UK advanced biofuels technology firms across feedstock, conversion and offtake.
Design, install and commissioning delivered within the group through Intrinsic 360's Athertons, alongside wider specialist energy engineering provision.
Co-origination relationships across utility scale solar, onshore and offshore wind, as well as distributed and grid scale storage.
Specialist counterparties on hyperscale, edge ready clean compute and grid integrated digital twin systems.
Continuous active dialogue with regional government, devolved authorities and Freeport development partners.
Selected research collaborations bringing innovation and funding to the fore across the platform.
Selected operating partners across the Brazilian clean grid, bioenergy and Atlantic coast feedstock base.
Working with institutional, family offices, international funds and specialist funders to create high impact, deliverable capital projects.
Six commitments that shape how we partner, how we invest, and how we work alongside the people we back.
Sustainability is our guiding principle, not a slogan. We back renewable energy businesses that treat environmental stewardship, social responsibility and commercial viability as inseparable. Value creation and global impact move together, or not at all.
We are operators backing operators. Our role goes well beyond capital. We stand with management teams through the hardest phases of scaling and bring hard-won experience to bear when it counts.
We work shoulder to shoulder with the businesses we partner. Strategic, tactical, operational. Calibrated to where each company is on its growth journey, never imposed from a distance.
We partner with growth and scale-up stage renewable energy and sustainability businesses willing to compete in large markets. We back highly motivated teams with genuine global reach and real appetite for impact on climate, decarbonisation and energy access. Collaboration runs through everything, drawing on the combined strengths of our portfolio.
We move at the pace of the businesses we support. Quick decisions, clear thinking, no bureaucracy.
We create the conditions for ambitious ideas to take root and scale. We turn potential into sustainable industry leadership, underpinned by deep conviction in innovation and a culture built around creative problem-solving.
Founders and executives with decades of front-line delivery across renewables, infrastructure, capital markets, and cross-border industrial operations. Below are the four principals leading Intrinsic Energy.
Renewable energy executive with well over two decades across biofuels, biomass, battery storage, and hydrokinetic power. Concurrently CEO Brazil for Achelous Energy, the floating hydrokinetic and solar platform developer. Fifteen years working in Brazil with deep regional networks across Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon basin.
M&A specialist with over two decades transforming businesses across financial services, construction, infrastructure, industrial services, and renewable energy. Co-owner and CCO of Athertons MEP, co-founder of Intrinsic 360 Holdings, and Visiting Enterprise Fellow at Liverpool John Moores University.
Construction and infrastructure leader with three decades across civil engineering, transport, and capital programmes. Concurrently Data Director at Estates and Infrastructure Exchange. Six years as Superintendent of Construction at Crossrail, leading Phase One construction of Paddington Station, a £500 million programme.
Senior finance executive with over two decades across manufacturing, technology, construction, professional services, and management consulting. M&A execution, international controllership, and ESG-integrated decision making, with deep operating experience across the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Latin America.
Selected programmes from across the platform. Past work that anchors how we operate, alongside in-flight mandates we are running for institutional partners today. Tap any card to read the full case.
Collectively, more than 80 years of in-country partnerships, mobilised public capital and demonstration projects designed to scale across the continent.
Brazil is one of the most consequential renewable energy markets in the world, and one of the hardest for outsiders to enter credibly. Our team has spent years building the relationships, institutional access and project structures that make UK industrial deployment in Brazil work.
Eighteen co-operation agreements with Brazilian solar developers across agriculture, telecommunications and ports. £700,000 of UK Cross-Government Prosperity Fund capital authored, won and channelled into a flagship biofuels demonstration. Federal recognition for low-energy social housing in Rio. The operating capabilities we bring to every Intrinsic Energy mandate.
Eighteen co-operation and partnership agreements with Brazilian solar developers across agriculture, telecommunications and ports.
At the EU-sponsored Low Carbon Business Action matchmaking conference in Fortaleza, our team signed eighteen co-operation agreements with Brazilian solar PV developers in a single programme of activity, on behalf of a UK battery energy storage systems (BESS) supplier.
Three sectors, deliberately chosen. Agriculture brought rural land and irrigation demand. Telecommunications centred on grid-edge resilience. Ports brought concentrated industrial loads facing scope 3 export pressure. The network proved durable, and now anchors how Intrinsic Energy structures international energy mandates.
A national, end to end intelligent operations platform for a UK engineering company. Fifteen capability modules, one data fabric, remote control of every business unit.
A fragmented stack of accounting, spreadsheets, paper diaries and disconnected systems was replaced by a single intelligent platform that mirrors every operational, financial, commercial and human aspect of the business in near real time. Mirroring, simulation and actuation. Decisions flow back into operational systems automatically.
Idle crew hours down 22 percent. Cost variance visibility from 21 days to under 24 hours. Estimating error from 17 percent to 6 percent. HSE incident closure time down 64 percent. Client dispute rate down 38 percent. The AI backbone made the business more efficient, not smaller. Productivity gains were reinvested into growth and into people.
Solar PV, BESS, ground source and air source heat pumps integrated as a single working asset, optimised by a live digital twin.
A working farm in the UK integrated a large-scale solar PV array, battery storage, ground source heat pump network and air source heat pumps to power on-site operations, export electricity and supply heat to neighbouring glasshouses. Traditional P50 and P90 yield models assessed each technology in isolation, eroding projected IRR and inflating insurance premiums.
A live predictive optimisation platform was deployed, integrating real-time inverter, battery and heat pump data with weather forecasting and a reinforcement learning agent inside a digital twin. The result: a stronger bankable case, improved insurance terms, higher projected returns and a reusable platform now being deployed on future UK sites.
Tier 1 urban transport delivery, defence-grade resilience, and infrastructure capital markets fluency, brought to UK programmes of national consequence.
Our team has delivered some of Europe's largest and most complex urban transport infrastructure programmes, alongside Ministry of Defence and disaster-zone reconstruction work in high-security, time-critical settings. The same delivery muscle, regulated to the highest standards, brought to UK programmes of national consequence.
BIM, digital engineering, NEC3 contracts and a collaborative innovation ecosystem in the field. Infrastructure bonds, residual value and insurance wraps in the capital stack. The full delivery toolkit, from ground works to financial close.
We work with institutional investors, corporate sponsors, public bodies, operating partners and IP owners, on programmes that meet our standard for ambition, governance and integrity. Tell us a little about what you are building, and we will be in touch within two working days.
A renewable energy and sustainability executive with well over two decades of operating experience across biofuels, biomass, battery storage, and hydrokinetic power, working on both sides of the UK and Brazil corridor.
As Co Founder & COO of Intrinsic Energy Ltd, Julian leads the operational build-out of the group's hub linking the UK and Brazil. The business was created to consolidate a portfolio of clean power solutions in Brazil, develop bi-directional UK and Brazil supply chains, and partner through active investment with high-growth renewables scale-ups on both sides of the Atlantic.
Julian also serves as Chief Executive Officer, Brazil for Achelous Energy Ltd, the UK cleantech developer behind a patented floating hydrokinetic and solar platform that generates 24/7 baseload electricity from river currents without the need for dams. From Rio de Janeiro, he leads Achelous' Brazil work, including engagement with national energy auctions for off-grid solutions in isolated systems across the Amazon basin.
Intrinsic Energy was built to consolidate the most exciting clean power opportunities in Brazil and connect them to British engineering, capital, and supply chains.
Prior to founding Intrinsic Energy, Julian spent five years as Business Development Director at Green Fuels Ltd in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, leading international growth for the world's foremost distributed-scale biodiesel equipment manufacturer. Founded in 2003, Green Fuels operates in more than eighty countries and is the parent of Firefly Green Fuels, the sustainable aviation fuel pioneer.
His earlier career included International Business Development at Catch Energy Group and three years in Brazil as Managing Partner at Fortbridge Consulting, delivering strategic investment services to the resources sector. He has now lived and worked in Brazil for the better part of fifteen years, with deep regional networks across Rio de Janeiro and the Amazon basin states. He is a graduate of the University of Hertfordshire.
Julian's mandate is to establish and consolidate a portfolio of renewables solutions in Brazil, develop bi-directional supply chains between the UK and Brazil, and partner through active investment with high-growth renewables businesses. Priority verticals include sustainable aviation fuel, distributed biofuels, hydrokinetic and run-of-river power, battery storage, and solar.
A strategic M&A specialist and capital project operator with over two decades of experience transforming businesses across financial services, construction, infrastructure, industrial services, and renewable energy.
As Co Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic Energy Ltd, Dita leads the strategic direction and global growth of the group's hub linking the UK and Brazil, anchoring the partnerships, capital, and platform investments that drive Intrinsic Energy's work across renewables, energy creation, and supply chain. Her deep global trade links underpin supply chain optimisation across the group, enabling procurement efficiencies and better buying at scale. Her expertise in digital twinning and AI-driven tech design enables advanced modelling, predictive control, and data-driven delivery across complex projects.
Dita is also Co-owner and Chief Commercial Officer of Athertons, a construction and engineering business in the Wirral she acquired in 2021 and grew from £4.3 million to £14 million turnover in three years, on a clear trajectory to a £45 million group of companies. The business has created 55 jobs, expanded into Wales, and delivers one-stop construction services and design capability for commercial projects including industrial and nuclear, providing the engineering capability to scale Intrinsic Energy project delivery. Athertons sits inside Intrinsic 360 Holdings, the multi-disciplinary platform from which Intrinsic Energy and its sister ventures have grown, alongside Integrationers, an AI technology business building complex data-driven platforms using AI and blockchain.
Dita's M&A and capital projects practice runs through Business Delta Limited, the consultancy she co-founded in 2015, and Noveus Capital, her contracting vehicle, supporting inward investment, finance raising, and capital and infrastructure project funding on global cross-border projects. She draws on long-standing relationships with private and institutional investors, family offices, and hedge fund partners built over many years.
Dita's career began at the European Commission DG XI, leading the PROSOMA Esprit programme that covered 580 pan-European innovation projects, including voice, retina, and fingerprint recognition technology and electric vehicles. She subsequently spent two years in the automotive sector in Detroit, working with first-tier global automotive manufacturers and first and second-tier OEMs. This was followed by a decade in financial services, including seven years at Zurich Financial Services heading the insurance product and proposition team across all commercial and public sector tiers, covering multi-tier and single-tier authorities, housing associations, and charities. Similar senior product and proposition roles followed at Barclaycard across all divisions, Legal & General, and Bibby Financial Services, generating hundreds of millions in bottom-line revenue across the four businesses, before she moved full-time into M&A and capital projects in 2013.
She holds an MSc in Information Systems Engineering and a BA Hons in English and Spanish, with Six Sigma Master Black Belt, PRINCE2 Advanced Practitioner, and MSP Practitioner certifications.
As Chief Executive, Dita's mandate is to set the strategic direction of Intrinsic Energy, secure the partnerships and capital that fund the group's growth across renewables, energy creation, and supply chain, and scale the platform between its UK and Brazil hubs.
Working across Liverpool, Manchester, and Teesside to develop and fund regeneration projects in renewables and energy, and driving inward investment and global trade with Brazil, South America, Pacific countries, India, Europe, and further afield.
A career supply chain professional, helping businesses reduce costs and create better buying at scale across complex global supply chains.
Driving the OXYGEN Summit and TWIN CITIES Initiative across 25+ global cities, working with governments, metro cities, and corporates on smart city innovation and digital twinning.
Bridging academia and commercial realisation across tech, AI, MedTech, marine, bioscience, and material science, mentoring high-potential founders and supporting applied research commercialisation.
Supporting young entrepreneurs and founders across the United Kingdom, championing enterprise and opportunity in the Liverpool City Region and beyond.
Construction Blueprint 2040 is Dita's industry reform thesis on UK construction, reframing chronic instability, fragmented delivery, and misaligned incentives not as inevitable industry quirks but as structural design flaws of a complex system of finance, technology, data, and governance. Drawing on two decades across M&A, technology, M&E engineering, automotive, financial services, and the European Commission, together with direct operating evidence from her self-funded acquisition and growth of Athertons, the book sets out a grassroots reform agenda spanning financial redesign of payment mechanisms, technological adoption of AI and blockchain, supply chain realignment, and legislative reform, arguing that stability, not effort, unlocks productivity, and that disciplines mature in financial services and advanced manufacturing must now be transposed into the built environment for UK construction to be competitive by 2040.
A construction and infrastructure leader with three decades of Tier 1 transport delivery, defence-grade resilience, and infrastructure capital markets fluency.
As Director, Capital Delivery at Intrinsic Energy Ltd, Peter leads the engineering, construction, and information management discipline that sits behind the group's energy infrastructure programme, ensuring projects are built to time, cost, and quality with digital rigour from concept through commissioning.
Peter also holds active mandates beyond Intrinsic Energy. As Digital Construction Manager at Kier Group, he leads the application of BIM and ISO 19650 information management for regional construction frameworks and large-scale projects, including programmes for the Department for Education and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (MoD). As Data Director at Estates and Infrastructure Exchange Ltd, he established the first regulated global exchange for trading infrastructure project bonds, championed cross sector data standardisation, and created the automated CARVER analysis adopted by the UK National Digital Twin Programme.
Earlier engagements include Consultant and Director at Clarehall Ltd, where he delivered transformative information management methodologies for the East West Rail Project and built an automated risk assessment dashboard for the National Digital Twin Programme. Before that he spent six years as Superintendent of Construction at Crossrail, leading the Phase One construction of Paddington Station, a £500 million programme, and delivering eleven London Underground station upgrades, while playing a key role in the Innovate18 programme that has since become an industry standard. Earlier roles at Tubelines Ltd and R J Holland Ltd round out three decades on the tools and in the boardroom.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), an ISO 19650 Information Management Practitioner, and a BSI BIM Project Information Professional. He served as a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Constructors from 2022 to 2024.
Peter's mandate is to lead capital delivery and innovation across the Intrinsic Energy portfolio, embedding construction discipline, risk management, and ISO 19650 information practice into the build-out of new energy assets and twin plant infrastructure across the UK to Brazil corridor.
At Crossrail, Peter operated at the heart of one of Europe's largest and most complex urban transport infrastructure projects, delivered beneath one of the world's busiest cities. The programme leveraged BIM, digital engineering, and innovative procurement including NEC3 contracts and a collaborative innovation ecosystem, achieving high standards of safety, quality, and technical excellence, with deep grounding in systems integration, risk management, and stakeholder coordination at scale.
He also brings exposure to military and disaster-zone critical infrastructure. Through current Kier Group delivery on Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and MoD frameworks, and team experience supporting secure, resilient clean energy systems in rapid-response reconstruction settings, Peter is at home in high-security, regulated environments where rigorous governance, supply chain innovation, and adaptive methodologies are the standard. This dual capability supports the modernisation of defence estates and the restoration of essential transport and utilities in post-disaster scenarios, enhancing national resilience.
Beyond the works themselves, Peter operates at the point where engineering credentials meet capital markets fluency. As Data Director at Estates and Infrastructure Exchange, he brings wide experience of infrastructure bonds, residual value and insurance wraps, capital instruments that translate physical asset performance into financeable, tradeable outcomes for institutional investors. This is the same intersection at which Intrinsic Energy operates today.
A senior finance leader with over two decades of M&A execution, controllership, and the integration of sustainability into corporate decision making, across manufacturing, technology, construction, professional services, and management consulting in the United Kingdom, Brazil, and Latin America.
As Financial Director, Claudio leads the financial architecture of Intrinsic Energy Ltd. His mandate covers group financial strategy and reporting, SPV and joint venture financing including INE and successor vehicles, M&A diligence and integration, treasury and group controls, ESG-integrated investment appraisal, and the Anglo-Brazilian financial bridge that connects the Liverpool headquartered UK and European subsidiaries to Brazilian principals and partners. He also brings strong personal links across Brazil that open supply chain opportunities for the group, spanning industrial counterparties, sourcing partners, and operating contacts across the corridor.
At ASSA ABLOY Brasil, Claudio led finance, controllership, FP&A, M&A, IT, and legal across six business units in Brazil and one in Chile, with eighty reports of whom six were direct. He concluded five M&A transactions contributing to a sevenfold revenue increase, structured a Shared Service Centre delivering approximately £2 million in annualised savings, and led valuations, due diligence, systems rationalisation, and manufacturing and office footprint consolidation across the group.
At Champions League Experience Brasil, the UEFA licensee operating in entertainment, retail, and hospitality, Claudio set up the operation from greenfield, building finance, accounting, controllership, and IT in their entirety. He raised capital through debt, convertible debt, and equity instruments, built the long term financial model, KPI dashboard, and full internal control framework, and led investor relations through establishment and growth.
Across a decade of controllership roles at HID Global, British Telecom Latin America, Distell (Heineken), and Homex, Claudio established planning, reporting, and control standards in multinational environments, with deep familiarity in US GAAP, IFRS, and complex transfer pricing arrangements. As founder of Delta Valorem Solutions, he advises owner-managed businesses on financial restructuring, growth strategy, sustainability integration, and exit preparation, and invests directly in small and medium sized enterprises approaching transformation.
Management and business consulting platform advising owner-managed businesses on financial restructuring, growth strategy, sustainability integration, and exit preparation. Active investor in small and medium sized enterprises.
European-wide finance partnering and analysis assignments across multinational portfolios, including business partner relations and IFRS 15 revenue recognition workstreams.