Dr Ian Barnes

Dr Ian Barnes is an Associate of the CCC and has authored a number of studies and contributed to other Centre activities, for example in providing input to the production of IEA Energy Roadmaps. Ian worked for British Coal and as a consultant for CRE Group Limited, EMC Environment Engineering, and Casella before leaving to trade as an independent energy and environmental consultant in 2002.
Ian’s expertise is on energy, environmental and waste issues in which he has over forty year’s experience.   He has specialised experience in power generation, particularly coal-based and the newer, emerging cleaner coal technologies, and he has a wide appreciation of energy use.
Ian has also worked with public sector and private clients on issues of waste utilisation and disposal.  He has assisted clients in the development of integrated systems for waste processing, as well as undertaking feasibility studies on utilisation options for a number of materials, including combustion ashes, wood wastes, and cattle rendering products, tyres and plastics.  He has a specific interest in the combustion, co-combustion and gasification of biomass materials in new and existing plant and has worked for industrial and governmental sponsors on this topic.
He has worked for UK Government departments on activities based at home and overseas, and has worked in the developing world for International funding agencies such as the European Commission, DFID, Asian Development Bank, UNIDO, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.  International experience includes: Europe, USA, Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, India and China.
Ian has a degree in Chemistry and a PhD from the University of Wolverhampton and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and a Chartered Scientist.
Ian is married with three daughters and lives in the Cotswolds in the UK. His interests include walking, cycling and cooking. [email protected]