Juliet Davenport: Good Energy founder spreads her wings and her expertise

Invest in the future, but keep things simple.' The energy-industry doyenne shares her solutions for our current supply ills and the climate crisis

Juliet Davenport may have made a lucky escape from the energy supply market. The founder and former chief executive of green power supplier Good Energy ended her 20-year tenure last February, months before an unprecedented surge in global energy prices left the industry reeling.

But then, it's not unusual for Davenport to be ahead of the curve. Set up in the late 1990s, Good Energy was one of the first challenger" suppliers to compete with the behemoths of British Gas and others, which had been created by privatisation. It was also a pioneering investor in renewable power, and an early champion of small-scale community energy ventures.