Professor Toby Peters

Professor Toby Peters co-founded both Highview Power Storage (2004) and Dearman (2011) and through them established the concept of liquid air to deliver both grid-scale electricity-to-electricity energy storage, and distributed cold and power for applications in transport and the built environment. He is one of the named inventors of Liquid Air Energy Storage. He is a Board Director and Strategic Counsel to Dearman.

Toby is Professor of Cold Economy at University of Birmingham; he is a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University in Transformational Innovation for Sustainability and in the Global Innovation Centre at Kyushu University in Japan. He was the academic lead of the 2015 ‘Doing Cold Smarter’ Policy Commission.