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New appointments at Cornwall Light & Power to drive development programme

Neil Harris, Head of Development at renewable energy company Cornwall Light & Power (CLP) for the last two years, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer.

At the same time the business, based at Charlestown near St Austell, has recruited three key figures to help drive forward an ambitious development programme.

Bob Morgan and Steve Allen have been recruited as Developers, and John Mills joins as Head of Group Construction Management.

Cornwall-based CLP was set up in 1992. It owns and manages the successful wind farm at Goonhilly Downs on the Lizard Peninsula and was acquired in June 2005 by AIM-listed Renewable Energy Generation (REG).

CLP is now the UK operational arm of REG, and is progressing more than 30 wind power projects in various locations in England and Wales.

The company is also working in partnership with REG's Canadian subsidiary AIM PowerGen Corporation on the development of large scale wind farms in Canada.

Neil Harris, a structural engineer with over 15 years of experience in the wind industry, has been responsible for the construction of many hundreds of Megawatts of wind projects.

He has worked with international and UK companies, and is highly respected within the industry. While Neil has been responsible for projects valued at up to £300 million, he also has a track record of building smaller projects in the UK.

John Mills has worked as a quantity surveyor in the construction industry for over 30 years and in the wind sector since the early 1990s. He is a former Head of Project Management (UK and Eire) for GE Wind Energy, and during that time he was Project Manager for the Cefn Croes wind farm near Aberystwyth which opened two years ago.

His initial focus over the coming months will be on a large-scale construction programme being undertaken in Canada by CLP's sister company AIM PowerGen.

Bob Morgan is a senior property development executive with project and construction management experience with blue chip companies operating in the telecommunication, hotel, restaurant, public house and leisure property sectors.

Steve Allen, an environmental surveyor, has worked on a number of projects in minerals and waste, telecommunications and the renewable energy sector. He joins CLP from a major wind turbine manufacturer and developer where he was responsible for a number of high profile wind energy projects.

Neil Harris said: "These appointments help provide the structure we need as we evolve rapidly into a mainstream developer of wind projects in the UK.

"So far this year we have constructed three projects in Co Durham, Cumbria and mid-Wales totalling 10.4 Megawatts, and with many others in the pipeline it is inevitable that we strengthen the business."