Faye is Founder and Director of the influential Tomson Consulting, advising on energy resource efficiency, low carbon energy and the circular economy, and District Eating, which develops horticulture projects that utilise waste heat and CO2 to maximise social benefit.
She holds a First-Class BEng (Hons) in Energy and Environmental Engineering, is a Chartered Energy Manager, and a Member of the Energy Institute as well as being an Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme Lead Assessor, and a Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Heat Networks Consultant.
Faye has over 15 years’ experience delivering energy management, renewable and district energy projects. She has built her reputation on stakeholder engagement, relationship building and developing novel business strategies, including the use of innovative funding mechanisms designed to tap into funds from investors in low-carbon projects.
Faye was raised on a farm in Yorkshire and believes we should be producing more food closer to home. District Eating is pioneering the exploitation of waste heat and CO2 for horticulture, encouraging the development of resilient localised food economies.
Clients include the Institute of Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, for whom a feasibility study has been carried out to harness horticultural growing at scale with the Sheffield district heating grid.
In 2022 District Eating was shortlisted in the Green StartUp category of the National StartUp Awards.