From control systems to green industry
Brendan trained as a mechatronics engineer and spent roughly ten years in control and automation — the discipline of making machinery, sensors and software agree with each other.
That background matters more than it sounds. Most energy problems on an industrial site are not energy problems. They are controls problems wearing an energy costume.
He then moved into hydrogen and carbon capture consulting with Emerson, one of the larger players in oil, gas and process automation, working on the technologies the industry is betting its next thirty years on.
What became obvious in that role was a gap. Excellent green technology companies with genuinely good products, struggling with two things at once: building a commercial pipeline, and getting an idea out of the lab and onto a real site where it had to survive contact with a running production line. Grafton Green started as a way to close that gap from both ends.