Paul Moran, Estates and Facilities Manager at Harper Adams University College in ...

Paul Moran, Estates and Facilities Manager at Harper Adams University College in Shropshire, is this year’s ESTA Energy Manager of the Year. Paul received his award, given for outstanding performance in controlling and optimising the use of energy, at the Gala Dinner at the Sustainabilitylive! conference and exhibition in Birmingham in May. Paul took up his role at the University College in 2003. Since then, he has overseen an expansion of the total campus area by 40% and has driven the introduction of a range of energy saving and carbon reduction measures. The latest project has been the building of a 500 kW anaerobic digestion (AD) plant this year to convert food and farm waste into heat and power. He said: ‘In my eight years here I have always aimed to develop a sustainable campus by bringing together different parts of the operation and involving as many colleagues as possible. Getting the AD plant up and running has been the culmination of all the work that has gone before. This is, by far, the biggest project, and has the potential to take us far beyond carbon neutral: we expect to offset our emissions more than three times over.’