Elaine Meskhi

Elaine is a Chartered Systems Engineer with over ten years of experience in the sustainable energy and transport industries. During this time, Elaine’s been engaged in innovation trials and led consultancy projects helping organisations of different types and sizes to understand what the transition to electric road transport means and how best to navigate the associated changes. She has a successful track record of managing multi-stakeholder, data-based projects for electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), Local Authorities, fleet operators and other organisations. 

As a Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure expert, Elaine’s domain knowledge, data analysis skillset and ability to engage with different stakeholders to develop bespoke and evidence-based strategies for infrastructure rollout are highly valued by Steer’s clients. 

Beyond developing EVI strategies for councils (London Borough of Redbridge, London Borough of Harrow, Plymouth, Southend-on Sea, Bristol, Manchester), fleet operators and private estates development companies, Elaine supports clients with EVI demand forecasting and mapping for different vehicle classes, running discovery and research projects looking into factors like accessibility and pricing and, tendering for EVI (fully CPO funded or co-funded with public sector grants). Elaine is also working on a bus franchising programme supporting the combined authority client with various activities in support of their transition to a Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) fleet and the electrification of depots.