Damian Miller talks clean energy, climate change solutions and more - Izzy Pope WHS Damian Miller is the co-founder and CEO of Orb Energy. Damian has a PhD from Cambridge University (Trinity College) in the early commercialisation of solar energy technology in emerging markets, and he is the author of the book, Selling Solar. Damian has lived and worked in India the last 11 years. Prior to launching Orb in 2006, Damian worked for Shell Solar where he oversaw operations across 7 countries in Africa. He talks about what his motivation was for getting into the clean energy business. "My motivation was, your know it's very simple, it was pretty clear to me that the way that we derive our energy, or have derived our energy was having a pretty negative impact on the environment. And that there were potential solutions out there, notable renewable energy, which would not have the same impact. You can have electricity without having the same impact on the environment. So the obvious source of electricity in the past was coal, especially historically in the UK and US, and coal has a big impact not just on climate change but on acid rain and other issues. So when I was coming through university in the early 90's solar and wind power as energy sources were emerging. So it was a clear improvement in how we derive our energy."