Phoenix Energy Chairman Steps Down

After 27 years since joining Phoenix Energy Holdings as Commercial Director in February 1997, Peter Dixon, the long-serving Chairman, has resigned from his position.

Dixon began his career as a gas engineer in 1976, when he was 16 with the Gas Corporation in Liverpool before being fast tracked through the British Gas hierarchy leading key strategic projects in the early 1990's. He was appointed to the Phoenix board and served as Group CEO until 2014 and more recently serving as Group Chairman from 2014 until April 2024 when he stepped down from this role.

Dixon's term oversaw the remarkable growth of the gas industry in Northern Ireland, recognised as one of the most successful greenfield projects of its era. The infusion of private capital facilitated the construction of approximately 4,000km of new gas infrastructure, extending gas services to over 360,000 properties and generating employment opportunities for over 2,000 individuals across the independent supply chain.


Since arriving in Northern Ireland in the late 1990s, Peter has deeply ingrained himself in the local community and as well as being instrumental to the development of the local gas industry, he is recognised as making valuable contributions to wider society, through charitable, community and economic activities, serving both as a Commissioner of Belfast Harbour and as the inaugural Chairman of the Energy for Children Charitable Trust.

Kailash Chada, Phoenix CEO said: "I would like to take this opportunity to recognise the remarkable service that Peter has given to the gas industry in the last 48 years, and particularly the achievements that he and his Phoenix colleagues made in the last three decades locally, that will leave a long legacy that will continue to support NI decarbonisation journey for generations to come."