Charlotte

Consultant and Co-Founder

Dr Charlotte Stamper (she/her), MCIWM, MIMMM

I specialise in helping to plan successful decommissioning projects, and have a policy background in circular economy.

I can help with:

Onshore and offshore wind decommissioning
Solar PV panel recycling
Commercial modelling and market analysis
Critical raw materials, including Rare Earth Elements
Low carbon steel and metal recycling
Circular economy research

About me

My big passion is wind decommissioning and repowering. I have experience in both the commercial and operational elements of practical projects, as well as deep insights into the policy and regulatory drivers of these activities.

My other professional focus is the materials needed to build out net zero. Decarbonisation isn’t optional, but we can’t get there by mindlessly pillaging our planet’s finite resources to get there. I’ve seen first-hand that building and maintaining energy infrastructure is necessarily hard and dirty work, but this is so often hidden from policymakers.

I have expertise in foundation materials such as steel, copper, and aluminium, but also more scarce materials such as Rare Earth Element (REE) needed to manufacture high strength magnets.

My approach

I use data to guide decisions. I started off as research geochemist, and this has given me a solid foundation in quantitative modelling and academic rigour.

I am not afraid to ask difficult or basic questions. Too much is assumed, or complicated, when we only truly move forward when everybody is following.

I’m curious, I like to try new approaches and love learning. And I believe in the power of bringing people together to share their knowledge.

My experience

At EMR, I setup a new business unit providing circular decommissioning solutions for end-of-life renewable energy infrastructure, including wind turbines and solar panels.

I also coordinated EMR’s interactions with UK government bodies and stakeholders, and developed strategic and commercial partnerships, with a particular focus on energy transition and critical raw materials.

At Zero Waste Scotland, I was responsible for setting its strategic direction across the energy infrastructure sector with a particular focus on circular economy. I worked collaboratively with Scottish Government and its agencies to gather evidence and support Scottish businesses.

I also had a short but formative spell with Scottish Renewables where I was the policy and strategy lead for offshore wind and marine renewables. Here, I learned the mechanics of government, how to lobby, and the importance of negotiation.

I am a Chartered Waste Manager, a Member of the Institute for Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and hold a PhD in geochemistry. I am a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Materials for Net Zero Working Group.

Publications and reports

I sit on the National Engineering Policy Council’s ‘Materials for Net Zero Working Group’, whose recent publications include

Critical materials: demand-side resource efficiency measures for sustainability and resilience, 2024 (lead author: Royal Academy of Engineering)

From 2019-2022 I was the Circular Economy Lead for Energy Infrastructure at Zero Waste Scotland where I was responsible coordinating the delivery of, and inputting into, the first quantitative evidence package to establish Scotland’s net zero demand for materials. Publications from this evidence set include: