James Hunt: Principal Consultant and Owner
After 16 years in the Royal Navy, the offshore energy sector and particularly, renewable energy, was a natural fit; a coalescence of my values with my experience and capabilities.
I have now worked in renewable energy and power transmission consultancy for over 20 years, building upon my engineering, metocean and project management skills to enhance my knowledge, innovate solutions for projects and achieve successful delivery.
My experience, which ranges from early concept, through development, engineering, construction and operations & maintenance, enables me to bring lessons learned and challenges overcome at these very different project stages, to drive towards the overall objectives around ‘consentable, investable, buildable, profitable’.
After delivering on over 600 consultancy scopes on more than 60 offshore windfarms and 25 subsea power interconnectors, I have affirmed my belief that power interconnection across borders is a necessity for net-zero.
I have an MBA from the University of Strathclyde Graduate Business School, an MSc in Oceanography from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bradford.
I am a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
I am also a Board Advisor to Japan Interconnector Inc a developer of subsea power interconnectors in Asia.
What’s the story?
Ocean sunfish (Mola Mola) are mesmerising natural wonders.
Starting their lives as tiny larvae hatching in drifting plankton, these curiously marvellous fish can grow to more than two tonnes in weight over the next 10 years.
During the 1990's, I was lucky enough to be chosen for an exchange programme between the Royal Navy and the United States Navy, so my wife, Lisa, and I headed to Monterey, CA, for 3 years of great adventures, friendships, and a bit of work.
While there, Lisa started volunteering at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, so we whiled away hours marvelling at the array of life - some known and some very much new - in the tanks and displays and nooks and crannies of the old Hovden Cannery on Cannery Row.
A recent arrival to the Outer Bay - then the largest aquarium tank in the World - was a small Mola Mola. Having only seen pictures in childhood books before, I thought this creature the size of a dinner plate was fully grown, but over the months we watched it change in shape, from round to a more traditional mola shape, and in colour, from white to shades of grey, blue and yellow, and most incredibly, in size - to more than a metre across.
She became a regular feature in our lives and our ongoing love of Mola Mola is now reflected in the name of the business.
From small ideas and ambitions great wonders grow.
