Nick Escott

PhD, Member of the Energy Institute
Account leader, energy generation
UK

Biography

Nick Escott is a PhD-qualified fuel and energy engineer with over 30 years of experience in broad consultancy and project management roles. As the global practice leader of Mott MacDonald’s thermal transition portfolio, Nick is responsible for shaping our activities and opportunities related to low emission and green fuels – biomass, energy from waste, carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS), hydrogen, efuels (such as e-methanol), biomethane, and ammonia as well as blue hydrogen from natural gas. These thermal and chemical processes are crucial elements needed to help our clients’ projects balance the energy trilemma framework of energy security, equitable access to energy, and environmental sustainability.

Nick has strong experience directing large multidisciplinary teams on global projects for owner’s engineering, technical advisory, feasibility study, due diligence, and equity/lenders’ independent engineering assignments.

Nick is a member of the Energy Institute, the chartered professional membership body for people who work across the world of energy, and has authored several publications on topics related to low emission thermal technology.