Will Evison

Will is a Managing Director and leads the Energy Value Optimisation (EVO) proposition for PwC UK. EVO is how we help energy consuming businesses to save money and create value by changing the way they use, buy, produce and trade energy.

We help businesses to develop integrated energy strategies that build from their existing progress - combining and optimising energy efficiency & time of use, electrification, generation & storage, energy tariffs and market mechanisms - to deliver cost savings, new revenues, improved energy resilience and decarbonisation.

We support our clients through business case approval, we help them to secure finance to fund energy investments, we provide the negotiation support and legal services to structure the necessary performance contracts, we advise on relevant taxes and incentives. Crucially, we work side-by-side with our clients to help them implement their energy transformation programmes, ensuring that results are delivered and sustained.

Will has supported a wide range of businesses and investors on energy and sustainability strategy for more than 20 years. Previously he chaired the “Planet” work-stream of the landmark World Economic Forum project “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism”. He is a member of the advisory group for The Capitals Coalition and was one of the lead authors of the Natural Capital Protocol (2016). He was an author and editor for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) (2010), and a co-author of the UK government’s framework for Corporate Natural Capital Accounting (2015). He also authored and edited the economics and business chapters of a university textbook on Planetary Health (Island Press, 2020).

He has served on steering committees for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the UK Natural Capital Initiative (NCI), and has led multiple collaborative projects for the WBCSD and the World Economic Forum (WEF).