About us

Updated on 3 June 2026

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The Eco Experts team at MVF's offices near Old Street in London

About The Eco Experts

The Eco Experts is a free, independent resource for UK homeowners navigating the world of clean energy.

We provide the guides, advice and quotes you need to cut your energy bills and reduce your carbon footprint.

Since 2009, we’ve helped over 2.6 million homeowners connect with trusted installers to get quotes for:

  • 2.1 million solar panel installations
  • 354,000 heat pump installations
  • 87,000 double glazing installations
  • 28,000 EV chargepoint installations
  • 17,000 insulation installations

These quotes add up to a potential 1 million+ tonnes of CO2 saved, and £200 million+ cut from UK household energy bills.

Our service is completely free for you to use.

We’re transparent about how we’re funded. The forms at the top of our pages connect you with vetted providers in your local area.

We receive a fee from trusted installers when we connect them with a homeowner. This is known as lead generation.

If you use our forms to request a quote, we may receive a fee from the installer. This is what allows us to provide free, independent information at no cost to our readers.

Our editorial output is completely independent of our commercial partnerships. What we write is never influenced by who we work with commercially.

Every installer on the Eco Experts platform goes through a mandatory multi-stage vetting process before they can receive a single enquiry from our readers. Here’s what that involves:

Reputation screening – We only work with established installers with a proven track record. We manually review public reputation signals including Trustpilot and Google reviews to confirm a history of customer satisfaction.

Operational capacity audit – We conduct a Discovery Assessment of every provider, verifying their business structure, geographic coverage, and ability to handle enquiries promptly and professionally.

Financial due diligence – We run comprehensive financial background checks through Dun & Bradstreet to confirm our partners are financially stable, creditworthy, and reliable long-term businesses.

MCS accreditation check – For solar and heat pump installers, we verify MCS (Microgeneration Certification Scheme) accreditation, which is the industry standard required for customers to access government schemes including the Boiler Upgrade Scheme.

Compliance and dispute standards – Before joining our platform, installers must agree to our compliance processes and dispute-handling policies, and confirm they have clear systems for resolving any issues during installation.

Contractual quality obligations – Every partner signs a formal agreement committing them to the high service standards we require, creating a legally binding foundation for the quality of service you receive.

Technical testing – No installer goes ‘live’ without first passing a technical testing phase to ensure secure, efficient handling of your data.

Continuous performance monitoring – We track installer performance on an ongoing basis, including response speed and customer satisfaction. Installers who fall below our standards are placed on probation or removed from our panel entirely.

Many installer applicants don’t meet our financial or operational standards, so you only connect with the UK’s top-tier providers.

We’re a small London-based team, a five-minute walk from Old Street station. Alongside our editorial work, our team brings experience from retail, technology, shipping, finance, global news and broadcasting.

Roland Ellison – Head of Content, Roland has 20 years’ experience in media, leading content teams at the Daily Mirror, BBC Storyworks and Storyful (News Corp), before joining MVF in November 2023.

Will Georgiadis – Managing Editor, Will is managing editor of The Eco Experts and sister site Expert Reviews, where he has worked since 2018. He oversees editorial output across all platforms for both websites, focusing on informative content that helps homeowners cut their energy bills and make long-term investment decisions about their homes.

Maximilian Schwerdtfeger – Deputy Editor, Max joined The Eco Experts in February 2024 and became deputy editor in 2025. In his journalistic career he has covered sustainability across maritime, supply chain, finance, mining and retail. He has represented The Eco Experts on national television multiple times, including BBC Sunday Morning Live and ITV Tonight, offering energy saving tips, or explaining how clean energy and electrification can protect your energy bills from fossil fuel spikes and shocks.

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Louise Frohlich – Lead Content Producer, Louise studied film and cinematography before joining MVF as production assistant in April 2024. A multitalented writer and content creator, she can turn her hand to writing news and product stories, while leading our video and social media output.

Christopher McFadden – Contributor Chris is an Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) specialist and qualified energy assessor with a Master’s in Earth Sciences from Cardiff University. He holds Level 3 and Level 4 domestic and non-domestic energy assessor qualifications, Green Deal assessor status, a Level 5 Retrofit Coordinator qualification, and is a Practitioner member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

Tom Gill – Contributor Tom has written for The Eco Experts for nearly five years, covering the global energy market, the future of hydrogen, Cornwall’s growing lithium industry, and the economics of the UK’s clean energy transition. He regularly appears at Grand Designs Live as a Green Living Expert, offering solar panel advice to the public.

Jane Hoskyn – Contributor Jane is a freelance journalist with 25 years of experience writing features, reviews, and interviews across technology and consumer subjects. She writes regularly for The Guardian and The Eco Experts.

Our editorial work is entirely independent of our commercial operation. Here’s how we maintain that in practice.

Guides and articles

We source price and cost data from installers across the UK, cross-referenced with MCS data, to give the most accurate and up-to-date picture of what clean energy technology costs right now. All other facts and statistics come from named, independent, verifiable sources.

Every guide goes through a three-stage process:

  1. The page is reviewed for freshness, accuracy, and any gaps in the advice
  2. It’s assigned to a writer or contributor, who updates it using the latest available information
  3. An editor reviews it to confirm all changes are accurate and the page is complete

All pages go through this process at least monthly.

The Cut newsletter
Our weekly newsletter, The Cut, follows a similar process. Stories are selected in our weekly editorial meeting based on what matters most to readers – typically technology updates, government policy changes, and new grants or funding. Selected stories are drafted, edited in two rounds (writer plus editor), and checked again before publication.

  • 2009 – The Eco Experts is founded by MVF Global to help UK homeowners understand and access clean energy technology, particularly solar power.
  • 2022 – We launch the National Home Energy Survey to understand public attitudes to net zero and clean energy. It runs again in 2023 and 2024
  • 2023 – Roland Ellison joins as editor. Maximilian Schwerdtfeger joins as content manager in early 2024
  • 2024 – We launch the Positive Energy podcast, featuring the UK’s leading voices in clean energy, hosted by Sam Pamphilon
  • 2024 – Max Schwerdtfeger appears on BBC Sunday Morning Live to discuss how clean energy can cut household bills. He has since appeared on the BBC twice more and on ITV twice
  • 2024 – We launch The Cut, our weekly clean energy newsletter

Positive Energy podcast – Each episode, host Sam Pamphilon speaks to the UK’s leading clean energy experts about the technology, policy, and economics shaping the way we heat and power our homes. Listen on Spotify or find us on YouTube.

The Cut newsletter – A weekly roundup of the clean energy news and technology updates that matter to UK homeowners. Subscribe here.

Questions about an article, a product, or a grant we’ve written about? We’d love to hear from you.

Email: info@theecoexperts.co.uk

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