How’s your energy?
A human-first benchmark for the people powering the energy transition.
We believe that good energy starts with good people, and that good energy at work is measurable. These are the principles that shape everything we do at TH.
Every year, the renewables industry produces dozens of reports about itself. And we get lots of important data on the megawatts installed, the capital raised, and the project pipelines expanded.
Almost none of them ask the people doing the work how they actually feel about it.
We developed the Good Energy Index to change that. If good people are the foundation of a good industry, then the industry needs a way to measure how those people are doing. Not in gigawatts, but in human terms.
What the Good Energy Index is measuring
Six metrics, combined into one score.
The Good Energy Index is the renewables industry’s first human-centred performance metric – measuring how energised, supported, confident, motivated, valued and proud clean energy professionals feel about their work, and combines them into a single Good Energy Score for the industry.
Then we go deeper. Using statistical modelling, and inspired by the methodology behind major global studies like the World Happiness Report, we identify which factors actually drive satisfaction, talent attraction, retention and performance within the renewables community. So we can show the industry what genuinely moves the needle. It goes beyond pay scales, generic trends and throwaway opinions to answer two critical questions: what’s the energy of the people delivering the transition?; and how do we create more of it?
Why the Good Energy Index matters
The energy transition’s biggest bottleneck is people.
We know the technology works, capital is flowing, and projects are progressing at pace. The big bottleneck is talent: attracting it, retaining it, and deploying it fast enough to meet the build-out the world needs.
The Good Energy Index gives the industry, for the first time, a clear annual read on how its people are doing. Where good energy is rising and where it’s falling. What’s working and what isn’t. And what’s keeping people in the industry, or pushing them out.
Why take part in the Good Energy Index?
We know we’re asking for ten minutes of your time without something directly in return. So it’s worth being honest about what’s in it for you.
You become a founding contributor. This is the inaugural Good Energy Index. Every future edition will be measured against the baseline this one sets — and the people who respond now are the ones who shape it. There’s only ever one first edition.
You get the report first. Before it goes public, before the trade press covers it, before it lands in anyone else’s inbox — everyone who takes part gets early access to the full findings. Use them how you like.
You get a voice in something the industry has never had. The renewables sector has plenty of data on what it builds. Almost none on how the people building it actually feel. Your answers help fill that gap — confidentially, anonymously, and at a scale that lets the findings actually mean something.
You only spend ten minutes answering questions. That’s it. Mostly multiple choice. No follow-up sales calls. No spam. No catch. We won’t add you to a mailing list you didn’t ask to be on, and we won’t pass your details to anyone else: promise.
You get a benchmark for your own working life. Everyone wonders whether the grass is greener. When the report publishes, you’ll be able to see exactly how your own answers compare to the industry — a private read on where you actually stand, that no salary survey or LinkedIn thread can give you. It’s perspective most renewables professionals never get, and it might be the most useful ten minutes you spend this month.
How the Good Energy Index works
We’ve designed this to be quick, easy, and worth your ten minutes. Here’s what to expect.
It’s open to anyone working in renewable energy. Offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, BESS, green hydrogen, CCUS, EV infrastructure, data centres, bioenergy – anywhere in the world, in any function, at any level. Engineering, commercial, operations, leadership, technical, support. If you’ve worked in this industry for over six months, we want your view. There’s no “right” kind of respondent.
It takes about ten minutes. Mostly multiple choice, with space to add your own thoughts where it matters. Designed to work on your phone, your laptop, or whatever’s to hand.
Your answers are confidential and anonymous. We’re after the patterns, not the individuals. Nothing you say will ever be attributed to you, your employer, or your team. The published report shows aggregated findings only.
It’s run with our research partners ResearchBods. Independently analysed, methodology published in the full report. The Index isn’t marketing dressed up as research — it’s research, run properly, that the industry can trust to be representative of what it actually finds.
The survey is open now. It closes soon. When it closes, the findings get analysed, the report gets written, and the first Good Energy Index gets published later this year. After that, the survey reopens next year. But the founding edition only happens once.
Who’s behind the Good Energy Index?
The Good Energy Index is produced by Taylor Hopkinson, the Good Energy Recruitment specialists. We’ve been recruiting good people for good energy projects since 2009: that’s 16 years of conversations, day in, day out, with the people building the energy transition. All of this accumulated knowledge led us to the idea that those people deserve more attention than the industry’s reports usually give them.
The Good Energy Index is our way of fixing that: by turning those conversations into a public benchmark the whole industry can use, and improve on.
