Graham Oakes
Consulting on local, community and municipal energy: business models, governance and distributed energy projects
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- New on EvolcAdded 2026-11-06
About Graham Oakes
Graham Oakes Ltd is a consultancy advising on local, community and municipal energy. It helps people and organisations identify opportunities and risks in distributed energy, develop business and technology models, and set up and deliver projects.
Services include developing new business and governance models, supporting technology and business innovation, defining strategy, setting up and steering projects, and mentoring executives and managers. The company advises energy-tech startups directly and through the Energy Systems Catapult and Carbon Limiting Technologies. It is a partner on Greater Manchester's Local Energy Market projects and a member of Northern Powergrid's Customer Engagement Group.
The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Ilkley, United Kingdom. Its founder, Graham Oakes, is a systems engineer who created the idea for Upside Energy in 2013 and founded that company in early 2015. Upside grew to 35 staff, was acquired by Octopus Energy at the end of 2019 and is now called KrakenFlex. The founder left Upside in December 2018.
Product: Advisory and project consulting on local, community and municipal energy business models, governance, strategy and delivery.
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