Gordon Coppock

About Gordon Coppock

Gordon Coppock joined the Marches LEP board as the partnership’s energy and net zero champion.
Following a career with Siemens, culminating as a director for the Asia Pacific region with responsibilities for 32 countries, Gordon decided to focus his work on climate change issues and in particular those related to energy use.
Gordon has a significant experience of working in the renewable energy sector both in the Marches and across the UK. His personal journey with using solar panels started in the 1980s and he has worked for one of the UK’s pioneering renewable energy companies, Wind and Sun based in Leominster.
Gordon is a director of Pomona Solar Co-operative, Herefordshire’s largest community-owned solar generation system supplying low cost electricity to local businesses and is actively seeking more sites.
He is vice chair of Herefordshire Green Networks and in 2019 created the Zero Carbon Herefordshire project. He has been chair until recently of his local town’s award-nominated environmental group KLEEN, and has worked with Marches Energy Agency to support the Keep Herefordshire Warm project.
Gordon is an elected member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), and has been a STEM ambassador to support the IOP Lab in a Lorry project for schools across the Marches and in Wales. He has developed (with support from the IOP) educational energy bikes for all ages and taken these to events across the Marches.
With any rare spare time, he enjoys astronomy, long distance walking with his family and friends and cycling using only his own energy!