25/11/2024

Charles Deacon

Charles is Managing Director of Eclipse Power Solutions: the expert grid consultancy business within the Eclipse Power group. The group also includes Eclipse Power Networks, a licensed IDNO with a particular focus on EHV connections; and Eclipse Power Optimise, a new business to own and operate private networks and microgrids. Eclipse Power’s mission is to simplify electricity connections.

Charles has spent 7 years in the grid connections space, initially for developers securing and developing multiple GWs of grid connections for solar PV, battery energy storage and gas to power schemes – both at distribution and transmission, including behind the meter. Charles joined Eclipse Power in November 2022, as Head of Grid Connections with a responsibility for managing the contractual and technical interface between the IDNO and upstream DNOs/TOs/NESO for Eclipse’s EHV and transmission-connected projects. Eclipse Power Solutions was launched in October 2024 to provide expert grid consultancy to customers earlier in the development cycle, including for schemes that are not suitable to be adopted by the IDNO.

During this period, the grid connections landscape has changed significantly. Charles regularly sits on relevant code working groups, to develop modifications and improvements to the existing codes, such as CUSC and DCUSA. Charles has worked with other parties to co-propose modifications and most recently has been involved in the working groups for the impending Connections Reform.”