TECHWORK 23: Lucas Root, Innova

Experience
Lucas Root, engineering director at Innova, spent a decade in the US renewable energy industry helping to scale two startups, one for commercial-scale solar and another for utility-scale solar and wind.

With the second company, after building up an approximately $2.5bn portfolio, the company was successfully sold to AES and AIMCo.

In 2020, he moved to the UK and joined Innova, which continues to undergo rapid growth in the renewables market.

Achievements
During 2020 and 2021, the Innova team worked to complete remediation works on a portfolio of renewable projects and sold them for approximately £100m in late 2021.