Allan Jones MBE, is an engineer who pioneered Combined Heat and Power (CHP), renewable energy and fuel cell systems in the United Kingdom and Australia from 1990 to the present.

Jones attended Sheerwater secondary modern, Woking; Guildford College of Technology and the Central London Polytechnic.

Jones is credited with the removal of the regulatory barriers to decentralised energy in the UK with the high level advocacy and lobbying that led to the creation of a separate electricity supply licence for decentralised energy or distributed generation to supply electricity over the local distribution network, otherwise known as the ‘virtual private wire’ over public wires principle.

On 22 May 2008, Jones appeared in an interview, shot in London and Woking, as part of the Australian ABC's Catalyst programme (2008 Episode 14).

The story featured Jones past work in Woking and the LCCA's plans for implementing decentralised energy systems in London.

In 2009, Jones was appointed as chief development officer, energy and climate change by the City of Sydney to provide leadership, strategic direction and high level advocacy to promote the changes which support the development and delivery of green infrastructure within the city as set out in Sustainable Sydney 2030.

City of Sydney London Climate Change Agency Woking Borough Council Decentralised energy