Rebecca Lane

“When I visited CAT, it felt totally different to other learning environments I had been in the past. The lecturers and student cohort are all welcoming, and much respect between peers because we are all here with a purpose: to learn a new way of thinking about and doing things to solve the wicked problems we have ahead of us.”

Rebecca Lane graduated from our MSc in Sustainability in Energy Provision and Demand Management and during her postgraduate studies at CAT, designed and lead the first Net Zero Neighbourhood programme in the West Midlands that shaped West Midlands retrofit grant programmes.

After graduating CAT Rebecca decided to set up RETRO, a retrofit service company that will help private homeowners and landlords start their retrofit journey. The company goes beyond the plan and provides all the project support infrastructure to get projects on their way, from building a whole home plan to helping get projects underway through sourcing and vetting heat pump or solar PV installers and providing a Retrofit Co-ordinator to oversee the work.

Having worked across energy innovation, and local energy initiatives, Rebecca brings her breadth of technical and business knowledge and interest in innovation into this new venture, working with the Founders Factory and investment funding from Nesta, to create a service that is desirable for all homeowners.