David Surplus OBE, BSc, CEng, MIMarEST

David is a Chartered Marine Engineer and former Lloyd’s Register Surveyor who moved from offshore oil and gas into renewables 33 years ago to form the B9 Energy group of companies.

B9 has developed ten onshore wind farms, Northern Ireland’s largest AD plant, six landfill gas projects, commercial and domestic solar PV, and hydrogen-based Power-to-X projects.

The company is now focussed on GW scale e-methanol synthesis for fuelling the ro-ro freight ferry sector.