Solar & Storage Live 2021 Agenda
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Opening Remarks
Keynotes
Chris Hewett, Chief Executive, Solar Energy UK
Keynote Panel: COP26 Summit Reflections and Implications for Solar and Storage Industries
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Fiona Howarth, Chief Executive Officer, Octopus Electric Vehicles
Sponsor Fireside Chat: Turning Long Term Battery Forecasts into Revenue Through the GB Power Markets
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Sponsor Presentation: Location, Location, Duration: Opportunities for Storage in Constraint Management
Storage and Batteries
Sponsor Presentation: Local Authority Guide to Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure
ChargeEV
Harry Duguid, Policy Advisor, EV Infrastructure, Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV)
Matthew Knight, Hardware Trials & Data Integration Lead, CENEX
Workshop: Hybrid Installations- How to Transform your PV Installation Business into a Smart Home One-Stop Shop
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: Dynamic Containment and the Future of Energy Storage in the UK
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Contracts for Difference
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Nick Blair, Head of Scheme Management, Low Carbon Contracts Company Ltd (LCCC)
Sponsor Panel: Addressing Constraint Management to Facilitate Greater Deployment of Renewables
Storage and Batteries
Panel: Driving Smart Meter Adoption for EV Owners
ChargeEV
Sponsor Presentation: Update on PV Modules and Supply, Price, Technology and Trade Restrictions
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Sponsor Presentation: How to Prevent Thermal Runaway in Li-Ion Batteries
Storage and Batteries
Presentation: Next Level Storage and How to Maximise Your Customers’ Self-Use
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: UK Insurance & Solar Industries - Joint Code of Practice
Commercial and Industrial Solar
James Hoare, Partner, LHW Partnership LLP
Presentation: Using International Trade of Solar-Related Goods and Services to Unlock Domestic Deployment
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: Energy Storage as a Source of Inertia for the Grid
Storage and Batteries
Panel: On-Street Charging: Forefront of Charging Innovation
ChargeEV
Greg Payne, Modelling and Simulation Lead, CENEX
Start-Up Presentation: Heliomotion’s Solar Tracking Systems
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Start-Up Presentation: Digitalising the Energy System
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Start-Up Presentation: Utility Scale Solar PV and Storage Development in South and Southeast Asia
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Start-Up Presentation: Aligning Capital Wealth with Planetary Health
Storage and Batteries
Start-Up Presentation: Levistor – High Power Grid Boosting Storage for EV Ultracharging
ChargeEV
Case Study: E.On Investment in Eco2Solar ‘Tipping Point’ in Residential Solar
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: Critical Role of Energy Storage in the Energy System in the Next 10-15 Years
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Circular Economy- Battery Second Life and Recycling
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: Launch of the Battery Storage Installation Standard
Storage and Batteries
Presentation: Developing a Green UK Supply Chain for EV Batteries
ChargeEV
Presentation: Community Renewable Energy and Community Benefits of Local Solar Farms
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: Grafham Water Case Study & Anglian Water’s Solar Delivery Programme
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Alex Riley, Renewable Energy Specialist, Anglian Water
Panel: Addressing Barriers to Unlock Domestic Flexibility
Storage and Batteries
Rebecca Robbins, Head Of Compliance, Renewable Energy Assurance
Panel: Transport Hubs- Planning for a Green & Equal Future
ChargeEV
Fireside Chat: There is Another Way- Creating Net-Positive Effect with Your Solar Park Design
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: Tracking Solar Development in the UK
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Presentation: The Future Relationship Between Interconnectors and Energy Storage in The Energy System of the Future
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: Innovation- Longer Duration Energy Storage
Storage and Batteries
Panel: Improving the Consumer Experience of Public Charge Points
ChargeEV
Sponsor Presentation
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Ypatios Moysiadis, Managing Partner, Wattcrop
Sponsor Presentation: Electric Vehicle – Charging Equipment Installation
ChargeEV
Workshop: Future Training for Renewable Technologies
Keynotes
Panel: Future Mix of Storage Technologies in the UK
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: Unlocking Potentially Significant Investment in New Pumped Storage Capacity in Scotland
Storage and Batteries
Panel: V2G and Bus2G
ChargeEV
Presentation: Why and How to Advance Diversity and Inclusion, hosted by POWERful Women
Keynotes
Start-Up Presentation: Risk Management and Optimisation of Solar Assets
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Start-Up Presentation: Opportunities for Local Authorities in Deploying Solar & Storage
Storage and Batteries
Start-Up Presentation: LINCHR Plan with Solar Matching
ChargeEV
Presentation: Planning for Unexpected and Unprecedented Events Like Covid and Climate Change on Solar Operations
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: Project LEO Updates- The UK’s Most Ambitious Smart-Grid Trial
Storage and Batteries
Barbara Hammond, Chief Executive Officer, Low Carbon Hub
Presentation: Connecting EVs for Net-Zero
ChargeEV
Panel: Best PV Technology for Residential Installers
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Ryan Mee, Director, Eco2solar
Stuart Nicholson, Director Roof Systems, Marley
Presentation: Thermal Storage and the Importance to Grid Flexibility
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: Changing Patterns of Supply and Demand and What This Means for Development of UK Energy System
Storage and Batteries
Panel: Strategic Location of EV Charging
ChargeEV
Start-Up Presentation: Opening Energy for Innovation
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Start-Up Presentation: Incorporating Key ESG KPI's into Solar PV Modelling
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Kofi Mbuk, Co-Founder, PVDATA
Start-Up Presentation: Automate Drone Thermal Inspections of PV Assets with Solar Inspectron AI
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Start-Up Presentation: The Zero-Carbon Seasonal Thermal Storage Solution
Storage and Batteries
Mats Manderbacka, Chief Executive Officer, HUR
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Keynote Presentation: Updates on the Government’s Path to Zero Carbon Mobility
ChargeEV
Sponsor Presentation: Solar PV and Smart Integration
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: Leaving No One Behind in the Energy Transition
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: Recharge Your Mind
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Grid-Scale Energy Storage Market Worldwide
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: Brexit One Year On- Impact on the Renewables Industry in the UK
Storage and Batteries
Panel: Workplace Charging
ChargeEV
Sponsor Panel: Best Technology for Large-Scale Installations
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Euan Anson, Sales Manager, Trina Solar
Sponsor Presentation: Powering the Investment Case for Battery Storage
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Workshop: Innovative Solar Marketing Strategies and Engaging with Different Types of Customers
Keynotes
Presentation: Expanding the Balancing Mechanism
Commercial and Industrial Solar
William Goldsmith, Head of Commercial & Grid Services, ev.energy
Panel: Harnessing the Potential that Data Offers to Digitalise the Energy System and Achieve Net Zero
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: The Role of Electric Heating & Hot Water in Providing Flexibility to the Grid
Storage and Batteries
Panel: London’s E-Mobility Future
ChargeEV
Start-up Presentation: Stirling Works and the Volute Spring Stirling Engine
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Start- Up Presentation: How Eco-Friendly and Sustainable Thermal Energy Storage Systems are Revolutionising a Transition in the Use of Renewable Energy
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Start-up Presentation: Watts Battery- Energy Storage Made Simple!
Storage and Batteries
Start-Up Presentation: Essential Smart Charging to Support the EV Transition
ChargeEV
Panel: Future Homes Standard Needs to Go Further- It’s Not Just the New Ones It’s The Existing Building Stock Too
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: Grid Charging and The Road to Net-Zero
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Assessing the Impact of Land-Use Change for Solar Park Development in the UK- Implications for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Fireside Chat: Smart Meter Rollout
Storage and Batteries
Presentation: DSO Flexibility Markets- How EVs are Driving Growth and Development
ChargeEV
Stefanos Anagnostopoulos, Commercial Manager, Piclo
Panel: Optimising Grid Connections
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Alternative Techs to Li-On
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: Local Authorities Accelerating the EV Infrastructure Roll-Out
ChargeEV
Sylvia Broadley, Specialist Energy Manager, Birmingham City Council
Presentation: Solar Panel Cleaners vs Window Cleaners- Setting Standards
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Presentation: Flexibility in Great Britain Energy System as Key to a Net Zero Future
Storage and Batteries
Andrew Lever, Director, Programmes And Innovations, Carbon Trust
Presentation: Local Authority Electrifying Fleet Case Study
ChargeEV
Sponsor Panel: Optimising Storage Economics with Data and Analytics
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Aaron Lally, Managing Partner, VEST Energy
Sponsor Presentation: DC Arc Flash and Fire Risk Assessment for Electrical Energy Storage Systems
Storage and Batteries
Fireside Chat: Small Community Setting up a Community Energy Company
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Tony Hill, Founding Director, Burneside Community Energy
Presentation: O&M Standardization and Best Practices
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Presentation: From Large-Scale Solar Developers to Fully Integrated Renewable Energy Businesses
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Presentation: When Will We Reach the Tipping Point for DNO – DSO transition?
Storage and Batteries
Panel: Charging Point Manufacturers View on What is Needed to Accelerate EV Charging Point Rollout
ChargeEV
Start-up Presentation: Gravitricity’s Long Life Energy Storage
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Start-up Presentation: Solar Consumer Adoption of Smart Charging
ChargeEV
Panel: Local Supply Tariffs- Improving the Business Case
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: The Value of Traceable, High-Quality Measurements to Solar Asset Productivity
Commercial and Industrial Solar
UKSOL Partner Case Study: Maiduguri Hospital, Nigeria
Large-Scale Utility Solar
Panel: How to Make Code for Sustainable Homes 2.0 Loved by Developers
Storage and Batteries
Mark Gillott, Chair In Sustainable Building Design, University of Nottingham
Presentation: The Future of EVs & EV Supply Chains
ChargeEV
Sponsor Presentation: All Together Now- Why it’s No Longer Enough to Innovate Products that Stand Alone
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: The Green Homes Grant- Lessons Learnt and What’s Evolving Next with the RHI Scheme & Smart Export Guarantee
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: EV - The Natural Link Between Renewables and Storage
ChargeEV
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Panel: Showcasing Sustainability West Midlands
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: Scaling up Community Energy
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Ollie Pendered, Director, Riding Sunbeams
Panel: Valuing & Improving Solar Forecasting
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Presentation: Whole System Approach to Decarbonising the UK
Storage and Batteries
Panel: How can the Parking Sector Address the Barriers to EV Adoption
ChargeEV
Start-up Presentation: Digitalizing the Rooftop Solar Business
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: Modelling Solar Photovoltaics in Great Britain
Commercial and Industrial Solar
James Kelloway, Energy Intelligence Manager, National Grid ESO
Presentation: Role of Prosumers in The Energy System of The Future
Storage and Batteries
Presentation: E-Mobility Policy- Synergies Between the UK and EU
ChargeEV
Panel: Energy Hubs- Supporting the Zero Carbon Evolution
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Panel: Future Homes Standard and the Approach by Local Authorities
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Panel: Funding the EV Charging Rollout – The Private Perspective
ChargeEV
Presentation: Global Market for Solar & Storage
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Presentation: Reflecting on the SEG Two Years Later- Has a Competitive Market Place Developed?
Everything Installer (Residential Scale)
Presentation: The Impact of Weather Variability on Battery Storage Revenues
Commercial and Industrial Solar
Felix Chow-Kambitsch, Head Of Commissioned Projects, Aurora Energy Research
Presentation: Overcoming Green Skills Gap for Green Economic Recovery
Storage and Batteries
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Aimee Betts-Charalambous, Energy Strategy Lead,
Department for Transport
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Rajiv Gogna, Partner,
Lane Clark and Peacock
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Chris Matson, ,
Lane Clark and Peacock
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Wendel Hortop, Senior Strategy Analyst,
Open Energi
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John Perkins, Principal Consultant,
AFRY Management Consulting
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Leah Robson, Director,
Your Energy Your Way CIC
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Laurent Schmitt, Head of Utilities & European Developments,
dcbel
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Paul Verrill, Executive Director,
EnAppSys
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Peter Kavanagh, Chief Executive Officer,
Harmony Energy
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Frank Gordon, Head Of Policy,
The REA
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Ben Guest, Head Of New Energy And British Strategic Investment Fund,
Gresham House Plc
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Faye Relton, Ancillary Services Development Manager,
National Grid ESO
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James Armstrong, Managing Partner,
Bluefield Partners
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Greg Triantafyllidis, Technical Director,
JBM Solar
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John Perkins, Principal Consultant,
AFRY Management Consulting
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Thomas McMillan, Head of Energy Consultancy UK,
Savills
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Steven Hughes, Head of Portfolio,
Foresight Group
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Karl Anders, Managing Director And Chief Executive Officer,
innogy
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Ryan Fisher, Senior Associate, Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure,
BloombergNEF
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Mike Hewitt, Chief Technology Officer,
Smart DCC
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Marzia Zafar, Head of Customer Strategy & Policy,
Kaluza
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Alastair Mounsey, UK Country Manager,
JA Solar
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Justin McNamara, Business Development Manager EMEA,
Honeywell
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Jez Climas, Head of Renewable Heat,
Midsummer Energy
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Robert Harley, Director,
Helios Solar Operations & Maintenance Ltd
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Howard Passey, Director of Operations and Principal Consultant,
Fire Protection Association
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Chris Roberts, Technical Director,
MCS
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Richard Hall, Clean Energy Sector Specialist,
UK Department for International Trade
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Marek Kubik, Market Director,
Fluence
Marek is a founding member and managing director of energy storage technology company Fluence. He leads Fluence?s UK, Ireland & Israel team where he is responsible for overseeing the origination, development and commercial negotiation of energy storage technology and services sales. Marek has ...
Ian MacKenzie, CEO,
Trojan Energy
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Kutahya Cherry, Managing Associate,
Foot Anstey LLP
Kutahya is a commercial property lawyer who works predominantly for developer and funder clients in the energy sector on solar, storage, EV and other renewable projects. She has dealt with projects from inception through to sale and finance. She sits as a non-executive director on a community...
Olly Frankland, Project Manager,
Regen
Olly manages a wide variety of complex innovation projects. He has developed a strong knowledge base in electric vehicles, asset management, community energy, domestic energy storage and microgeneration. He works across a large spectrum of technologies, providing detailed advisory support for the...
Aaron Berry, Deputy Head, Energy And Infrastructure,
Office for Low Emission Vehicles
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Alastair Mumford, SWEP Regional Programme Manager - Devon,
Bristol City Council
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Melissa Briggs, International Business Development Director,
Heliomotion Ltd
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Ali Safari, Founder & CEO,
Farad.ai
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Paul Bryant, CEO,
Arinna Solar Limited
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Amit Gudka, Founder,
Field
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Keith Pullen, Director,
Levistor
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Paul Hutchens, Director,
Eco2solar
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Paul Is...
Jonathan Radcliffe, Reader in Energy Systems and Innovation,
University of Birmingham
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Pavel Mardilovich, Senior Scientist,
CellCube
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Fearghal Kearney, Client Director,
Circulor
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George Hilton, Senior Analyst,
IHS Markit
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Chris Roberts, Technical Director,
MCS
Chris Roberts is an independent technical consultant, renewable energy expert witness and director/owner of clean energy businesses with over 18 years’ experience in this exciting industry.
Mark Thompson, Managing Director,
AceOn Group
Mark stands at the forefront of one of the fastest moving technology industry trends: Battery Specialised Products & Renewable Energy particularly Battery Energy Storage Systems. He?s spent the past five years passionately advocating a commercial/ industry-wide shift to energy storage. His...
John Taylor, Energy Projects Manager,
Greater South East Energy Hub
John Taylor is an Energy Projects Manager with the Greater South East Energy Hub and is Vice Chair of the Solar Energy UK Local Authority Working Group.He has over 12 years’ experience working with local authorities, social enterprises and community groups on climate change and renewable energy...
Jon Ferris, Head of Storage and Flexibility,
Delta-EE
Jon spent 12 years managing a £1bn wholesale trading book on behalf of C&I consumers, working with retailers to develop new contracts enabling market access for smaller consumers and was also responsible for delivery of market intelligence, procurement, bill validation and data analysis. This...
Louise Van Rensburg, Interim Deputy Director, Energy Systems Transition,
OFGEM
Louise has a Master’s Degree in Economics and her 16 years in energy regulation spans domestic and non-domestic retail, smart metering, wholesale, enforcement and network issues. In her role as Head of DSO and Whole System Coordination she focusses on developing flexibility markets and data...
Charlie Barnes, Electric Vehicle Project Development Manager - Bus & Coach Lead,
Women in Transport
After graduating with a Masters in Electronic Engineering, Charlie performed several operational roles in the London bus industry before project managing the design, build & implementation of the first 24 hour zero emission double deck bus route in London. She now uses her industry experience...
Elaine Meshki, Sustainable Energy and Transport Consultant,
CENEX
Elaine Meskhi is a Chartered Systems Engineer experienced in energy industry consultancy both national and internationally. Her work has centred around helping the electricity networks to prepare for increasing penetrations of low carbon technologies, focussing on innovation projects around...
Victoria Heald, Transport Planner,
WSP UK
Victoria Heald is a Transport Planner at WSP. Victoria worked in the public sector, delivering walking and cycling schemes, before moving to the private sector, where her focus has been on widening accessibility, public transport schemes, and future mobility.
Joanna Ward, Transport Planner,
freelance
Joanna is a highly experienced and motivated Transport Professional with a special interest in Sustainable and Active Transport solutions. She has worked in the transport sector for over 23 years and has proven track record working across the public, private and charity sector for a wide client...
Simon Coulson, Director,
Aura Power
Simon Coulson – Director & Co-founder Aura Power Developments Ltd
8+ years renewables experienceVice President, Morgan StanleyMSc Computer Science, Imperial College London
Chloe Hood, Project Developer,
Aura Power
With a passion for decarbonisation and a cleaner future, Chloe heads up the community engagement side, working with local communities on our UK solar farms.
Kevin McCann, Policy Manager,
Solar Energy UK
Kevin McCann is Policy Manager at Solar Energy UK, the membership organisation for the UK solar industry, where he leads on rooftop markets. Prior to Solar Energy UK, he designed and implemented social and environmental impact projects in central and west Africa. Kevin has a MA in international...
Brett Baber, Head Of Commercial Development,
Dynamic Energy Solutions LTD
With over 20 years of experience in operational management with inception for the Armed forces, Brett has established a solid ten years of industry expertise within the renewable energy sector. Brett has worked alongside some of the biggest industry professional across Solar and wind in both a...
Sophia Cliff, Senior Policy Advisor, Offshore Electricity,
BEIS
Sophia Cliff has led on electricity interconnector policy and delivery at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for a number of years, having previously worked on offshore transmission and coordination, and the PM-led review on EV rapid charging. Sophia led on the...
Andy Wilson, Project Manager - Smart Energy Innovation,
BEIS
Andy Wilson is a Project Manager for BEIS working on the Longer Duration Energy Storage competition. He is an engineer with previous experience in energy storage, nuclear energy and offshore oil and gas.
Rachel Mills, Senior Policy Researcher,
Citizens Advice
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David Bailey, Professor, Business Economics,
University of Birmingham
David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in...
Liam Proudlock, Director,
Proudlock Associates
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Graham Kenyon, Managing Director,
G Kenyon Technology
Managing Director of the consultancy G Kenyon Technology Ltd, Graham is an electrical and systems engineering consultant who established his reputation designing and implementing control and information systems in the challenging environments world-class construction programmes, chiefly in the...
Mark Thompson, Managing Director,
AceOn Group
Mark stands at the forefront of one of the fastest moving technology industry trends: Battery Specialised Products & Renewable Energy particularly Battery Energy Storage Systems. He?s spent the past five years passionately advocating a commercial/ industry-wide shift to energy storage. His...
Ian Rippin, CEO,
MCS
Ian is CEO of MCS, a profit-for-purpose organisation that plays a central role in the UK’s adoption of renewable energy sources for our homes and small businesses. MCS is responsible for the national Standards that cover low carbon products and their installation, used to produce electricity and...
Christelle Barnes, Country Manager, UK,
SolarEdge
As UK Country Manager for SolarEdge Technologies, Christelle Barnes is responsible for spearheading the company’s ambitious growth strategy for its solar and critical power divisions in the UK and Ireland. Since taking on the role in 2016, she has overseen a more than 50% growth in SolarEdge’s UK...
Kevin McCann, Policy Manager,
Solar Energy UK
Kevin McCann is Policy Manager at Solar Energy UK, the membership organisation for the UK solar industry, where he leads on rooftop markets. Prior to Solar Energy UK, he designed and implemented social and environmental impact projects in central and west Africa. Kevin has a MA in international...
Bean Beanland, Director for Growth & External Affairs,
Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Bean has an Honours Degree in Physics from Imperial College, is an Associate of the Royal College of Science, and is a founding member of the new Heat Pump Federation and the immediate past-Chairman of the Ground Source Heat Pump Association.He has over 12-years’ direct experience in energy and...
Stephen Crosher, CEO,
RheEnergise
Stephen is CEO of RheEnergise and the orriginator of the High-Density Hydro ®?concept.
Highly motivated capable individual with director level experience across 3 industry sectors: 12 years in renewable energy; 5 years developing innovation and policy; 15 years architecture/ design. A track...
Ed Porter, Business Development Director,
Invinity Energy Systems
Ed Porter is Invinity?s Business Development Director, leading the development of new business models and commercial applications for the company?s vanadium flow batteries (VFBs).
Invinity Energy Systems is the world?s leading vanadium flow battery company, created in April 2020 through the...
Mark Wilson, Chief Executive Officer,
ILI Group Plc
Mark has been focused on the renewable energy sector since 2008. From an original target of 100 consents, Mark led the ILI team in achieving 96 successful planning applications for onshore wind turbine projects. On that journey it became clear that in the near future intermittent generation would...
Ian Chilvers, Chief Power Systems Engineer,
Smart Power Systems
Ian has 30 years experience as a Power Systems Engineer. He started his career as an electrical engineering apprentice and after graduating joined Foster Wheeler Energy (an American Oil and Gas EPC Contractor) where he worked globally. His particular interest is the integration of new renewable...
Laurent Schmitt, Head of Utilities & European Developments,
dcbel
Laurent Schmitt joined Dcbel in early 2021 as CEO of Dcbel Europe. For the last 25 years, Laurent has worked in both public and private organizations with the goal of automating and digitizing the global energy industry. Prior to joining Dcbel, he held the positions of Secretary General of the...
Jennifer Yates, ,
S.S.E. Plc
Jennifer joined SSE as a Graduate Engineer three years ago after completing MSc Renewable Energy Engineering. She joined the Engineering Solutions team as a Project Development Engineer with a focus on solar and storage technologies. She first began working on Bus2Grid providing technical support...
Elizabeth Baxter, Director of Project Finance,
Sonnedix
Elizabeth Baxter is Director of Project Finance at Sonnedix, a global solar independent power producer backed by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. She leads the origination and execution of project finance lending for solar power projects in the UK and Europe. Before joining Sonnedix, Elizabeth was a...
Jyoti Roy, CEO,
GreenEnco Ltd
Jyoti is the founder of GreenEnco. He is an expert in solar energy & energy storage and an advisor of some key energy organisation in the UK. He has executed over 6 GW solar PV project in last 16 years across the PV lifecycle in EMEA, Asia and USA. He has performed Techno-commercial...
Michael Simpson, CEO,
Cheesecake Energy
Michael Simpson is the CEO of Cheesecake Energy. Mike graduated from the University of Cambridge with a 1st class degree in aerospace engineering and has a PhD in high-efficiency compression/expansion from Imperial College London. He previously worked on a range of gas turbine design and analysis...
Paul Nicholson, Vice President,
Linkcharging Technology Company Limited
Paul Nicholson is Vice President (Brands) for Linkcharging Technology, a leading manufacturer of electric vehicle chargers. He was previously a director of Dowell Electronics in Beijing, providing batteries for solar power installation and before that worked with KLNE manufacturing solar...
Nicola Waters, Founder and Director,
PSH Operations Ltd
For the past 12 years, Nicola has held senior management positions in the renewable energy sector, mainly for fast growth or transitioning businesses. With a background in engineering and an MBA from London Business School, she has worked across multiple disciplines and has led organisations with...
Graham Oakes, Owner,
Graham Oakes Ltd
Graham Oakes is a systems engineer with 30 years’ experience in data and digital tech. He formed Upside Energy, a cloud platform that uses advanced algorithms and AI to manage the flexibility available from devices such as EVs, home batteries, heat pumps, etc, in 2013, and grew it to the point...
Paul Jewell, Policy Manager,
Western Power Distribution
Paul has worked in the electricity industry since graduating in 1988. He joined the South Western Electricity Board in the nationalised industry, and has experienced the changes through privatisation and market separation. He remains with his original employer, now Western Power Distribution. Paul...
Kt Tan, Chief Technical Officer,
Viridian Solar
Dr KT Tan is the Chief Technical Officer at Viridian Solar, a UK company based in Cambridge with their renowned innovative Clearline Fusion products. For over a decade, he has been devoting his professional life to developing products and technologies for the renewable sector. He started to work...
David Woon, Renewable Energy Technical Engineer,
Spirit Energy
David completed a distinguished academic run with masters degrees in Electronic Engineering and Sustainable Energy Engineering. Working in Spirit's technical department, he specialises in residential solar and keeps the team up to date with the latest innovations in photovoltaics.
Jeremy Yapp, Head of Flexible Energy Systems,
BEAMA
Jeremy Yapp began his professional life managing an independent retail business. He worked for some years in the Australian Parliament and then in several energy and environment policy areas in the UK Civil Service. For BEAMA he represents the supply chain of smart metering and smart...
Andy Manning, Principal Economic Regulation Specialist,
Citizens Advice
Andy joined Citizens Advice in April 2021. Andy leads the Energy, Networks and Systems team. The team seeks to ensure that consumers receive the services they require from the energy network companies at good value for money, and that the energy system works well for consumers. Andy sits on the...
Jacob Briggs, Consultant,
Cornwall Insight
Jacob is an analyst working on the domestic retail market, producing competitor and market intelligence reports.
Jacob has several years? experience in community development with public sector and NGOs.
Anna Cuckow, Assistant Manager, Programme And Transport,
Energy Saving Trust
Anna leads the Local Government Support Programme team at Energy Saving Trust, funded by the Department for Transport. The team offers councils in England free, impartial advice on public charging infrastructure and opportunities for officers to network and exchange ideas to accelerate the...
Greg Archer, UK Director,
Transport and Environment
Greg Archer is the UK Director of the think tank and campaigning organisation Transport & Environment (T&E). His work focuses on creating and implementing policies that drive clean technology into transport. During 7 years based in Brussels working on EU-regulations, he led T&E...
Patrick Hall, Senior Researcher,
Bright Blue
Patrick Hall is a Senior Researcher at the think tank Bright Blue, helping to inform the energy and environment policy debate in the UK, as well as contributing to Bright Blue?s programme of research and events. Patrick has produced three agenda-setting reports on biodiversity decline, sectoral...
Tereza Borges, Director,
n3rgy
Tereza Borges has 26 years of experience in driving strategic business change and innovation, leveraging on new technologies and business models and working on Energy and Telecommunications & IT industries. She is now focused on guiding businesses and technologies that enable the transformation ...
Alexis Kanter, Co-Founder,
Solar Inspectron AI
Alexis Kanter is a Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence freelance software engineer with previous professional experience in Vision hardware acceleration. He has experience in development of various projects in Digital, Hardware and Software Design in permanent and part time roles from...
Rachel Maclean, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Transport Decarbonisation and Future of Transport,
Department for Transport
Rachel Maclean was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport on 14 February 2020. She was elected Conservative MP for Redditch in 2017. Rachel joined HSBC in 1989, working in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong. In 2005 she set up a publishing company with her...
Graham Kenyon, Managing Director,
G Kenyon Technology
Managing Director of the consultancy G Kenyon Technology Ltd, Graham is an electrical and systems engineering consultant who established his reputation designing and implementing control and information systems in the challenging environments world-class construction programmes, chiefly in the...
Christine Coonick, Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund,
Innovate UK
Chris is an industry recognised and well-respected specialist with over 10 years’ experience in the field of solar photovoltaics (PV) and associated smart and flexible technologies. She is an active member of a number of national and international committees, developing future standards for an...
Virginia Graham, CEO,
REAL
Virginia Graham is Chief Executive of Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd (REAL). Set up in 2006, REAL administers two consumer codes, four certification schemes and one ID registry in the renewable energy and circular economy sectors. The largest of these is the CTSI-approved Renewable Energy Consumer...
Steve Williams, Managing Director,
Clean Solar Solutions Ltd
Steve Williams is a global solar panel cleaning consultant and Managing Director of Clean Solar Solutions. He is also Managing Director of solar bird deterrent company Scaring Birds Ltd & Chair of the SEUK Rooftop O&M Working Group. Steve has knowledge of O&M in rooftop, ground mount...
Julian Jansen, Associate Director,
IHS Markit
Julian Jansen is a research manager in the Clean Technology & Renewables team at IHS Markit. He leads the group?s global research on stationary energy storage and provides deep insight on the key value drivers and emerging business models accelerating storage deployment across the world. ?
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Matt Paterson, Director of Sales,
Ethical Power Connections
Matt joined Ethical Power Connections in 2020 to lead the Business Development Operations with specific accountability towards the continued growth of the business. He prides himself on being able to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organisation and with a range of...
Monica Guise, Director of Facility Services,
University of Birmingham
Responsible for all soft facilities and logistics at the University of Birmingham including transport, travel, car parking, cleaning, waste management, post and exports, sustainably for the University of Birmingham. Our award winning team include one of the most sustainable fleets in the UK and...
Justin Laney, General Manager - Fleet,
John Lewis Partnership
Justin Laney manages the John Lewis Partnership fleet of 4,500 commercial vehicles and 1000 cars. The fleet is on target to be free of fossil fuel by 2030, and net zero carbon by 2035 through the use of efficiency measures, biomethane and EVs. Justin is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the...
Lloyd Allen, Go Ultra Low West Project Manager,
Bristol City Council
Lloyd Allen is an experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the government administration industry. Lloyd is leading on the expansion of publicly accessible EV charging infrastructure which includes fast and rapid charger points alongside rapid charging hubs. Bristol...
Chris Matson, ,
Lane Clark and Peacock
Chris is a Partner at LCP, with 10 years' experience specialising in the modelling and analysis of electricity markets. His role is to help their clients understand the challenges and opportunities facing electricity markets, through the use of innovative modelling and in-depth industry...
Kevin Holland, Managing Director,
The Solar Shed
'Creating a solar nation, one house at a time'. ( www.solar-power.co.uk )
Mac Alonge, CEO,
The Equal Group
Mac is the Founder and CEO of data-driven, equality, diversity and inclusion tech company, The Equal Group ? focused on providing organisations with the tools and support that they need to optimise their equality, diversity and inclusion efforts.
Spending over 10 years as a consultant within the ...
Aidan O'Sullivan, Associate Professor Energy and AI,
University College London
Aidan O’Sullivan is Associate Professor in Energy and Artificial Intelligence at UCL Energy Institute where he leads the Energy Systems and Artificial Intelligence Lab which is focused on applications of AI in the energy system with a particular focus on the power sector. He is the founding course...
Johan Du Plessis, Founder & CEO,
Tepeo
Johan du Plessis founded tepeo in 2018 to develop technologies to drive the rapid and low cost decarbonisation of heat. He is a Chartered Engineer and Project Management Professional with a wealth of experience across the energy industry. Prior to starting tepeo he was the Head of Smart Heat at OVO ...
Caroline Bragg, Senior Policy Manager,
The Association for Decentralised Energy
Caroline leads the development of the Association’s policy and regulatory work – working closely with members and policymakers to promote the sustainable development of the decentralised energy sector in the UK.Caroline joined the ADE from RenewableUK where her work in the policy team included the...
Jeremy Yapp, Head of Flexible Energy Systems,
BEAMA
Jeremy Yapp began his professional life managing an independent retail business. He worked for some years in the Australian Parliament and then in several energy and environment policy areas in the UK Civil Service. For BEAMA he represents the supply chain of smart metering and smart...
Alexander Gilbert, Senior Energy Strategy Manager,
Transport for London
Alex acts as an independent 'Green Infrastructure' investor and advisor, focusing on: the 'energy transformation'; clean-tech investment; and the financing of smart, low carbon, sustainable cities. He has worked in sustainable investment throughout his career – responsible for...
David Hunt, Chief Executive Officer And Founder,
Hyperion Executive Search
David has been in Cleantech for over 13 years, in business for 30, his passion is to use his experience and his network to accelerate the growth of the global cleantech sector, though supporting founders, entrepreneurs and start ups to succeed and scale.
Day to day, he is the founder and CEO of...
Michael Dann, Director,
Stirling Works Global Ltd
Michael Dann is Managing Director of Stirling Works Global Ltd. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with over 30 years experience of producing innovative working solutions in mechanical engineering.
Martin Schichtel, Chief Executive Officer,
Kraftblock
Dr. Schichtel studied chemistry at the University of Saarland and received his doctorate from the Leibnitz Institute for New Materials on the subject of the synthesis and use of nanoscale particles. At the institute he built up the department of polymer composites and headed the technical ceramics...
Andreas Procopiou, Chief Product Officer,
Watts Battery Ltd
Dr Andreas Procopiou is the Chief Product Officer of Watts Battery Cor. He has significant international experience (UK, France, Australia) in network integration and control of distributed energy resources and future distribution networks from both the academic and industry perspectives. He led...
Arun Anand, Founder,
Electric Miles
Arun Anand, Founder CEO of Electric Miles, a serial entrepreneur and Engineer with 15 years’ experience in the Energy Sector. Arun is an EV driver, greenpreneur and is passionate about building an Internet of Energy solution for Electric Miles which could change the shape of the Energy Landscape. ...
James Williams, Co-founder & CEO,
Sero Homes
James is co-founder and managing director of Sero. A mechanical engineer by training, James started in the automotive sector designing motorbikes, before translating his technical skills into renewable energy development. He successfully developed a number of biomass power stations in this...
Christine Coonick, Programme Manager, Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund,
Innovate UK
Chris is an industry recognised and well-respected specialist with over 10 years’ experience in the field of solar photovoltaics (PV) and associated smart and flexible technologies. She is an active member of a number of national and international committees, developing future standards for an...
Jonathan Atkinson, Project Manager,
Carbon Co-op
Jonathan Atkinson is an environmental campaigner and co-founder of Carbon Co-op, a low carbon social enterprise which retrofits homes in Greater Manchester and delivers energy efficiency services across the UK.Jonathan is currently project managing People Powered Retrofit, a partnership with URBED...
Charlie Baker, Director,
red co-operative ltd
Charlie has designed many things from furniture through housing co-operatives to large urban masterplans, always with a focus on sustainability. He is an expert in low carbon refurbishment and energy supply and has authored several reports on retrofit standards and finance, most recently a repot...
Laura Bishop, Chair,
Ground Source Heat Pump Association
Laura Bishop is a chartered mechanical engineer, registered with the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. She has 20 years engineering experience with a number of blue-chip companies including Rolls Royce and E.ON Connecting Energies. She runs Infinitas Design Ltd, a Derby-based independent renewable ...
Louise Schmitz, Deputy Director for Electricity Network Charging Access,
OFGEM
Louise Schmitz is currently Deputy Director of Network Charging and Access in Ofgem, accountable for Ofgem's regulatory policy decisions on how the ~£10bn per year of electricity network costs are charged and recovered from those using the networks. Louise has over 20 years' experience in...
Fabio Carvalho G Da Silva, Senior Research Associate,
Lancaster University
Fabio has a background in environmental sciences and his current academic research focuses on the environmental implications of land-use change for utility scale solar park development in the UK. Specifically, he is collating data on natural capital (e.g., soil, biodiversity) and ecosystem services ...
Andrew Cook, Director,
Pegasus Group
As an Environmental Planner & Chartered Landscape Architect Andrew has considerable experience across a wide range of experience in the energy sector. Andrew is as a Chartered Landscape Architect an experienced expert witness who has been involved with over 200 appeals to date including written ...
Chris Barlow, Director of Innovation,
Smart DCC
Chris joined DCC in Jul 2014 and has 15+ years experience as a multi-disciplined IT professional specialising in high profile initiatives, driving business transformation. He has specific expertise in Smart Energy technology having led the design and implementation of multiple large scale...
Richard Fitton, Reader in Energy Performance of Buildings / School of Built Environment,
University of Salford
Richard holds a PhD in Building Physics and is also a chartered building surveyor. He leads a task group for the development of international standards around energy performance. He is also active the International Energy Agency studying the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency...
Daisy Cross, Head Of Smart Programme,
Energy UK
Daisy has been heading up the smart team at Energy UK, the industry?s main trade body, since 2016. The team represents member energy companies on technical and consumer issues relating to smart, as well as the wider policy framework for the programme. The team has been identifying and resolving...
Matthew Brailsford, Managing Director,
Custom Solar
Matthew is the founder and Managing Director of Custom Solar. With more than a decade at the forefront of the UK C&I rooftop sector Matthew has led a team to deliver a host of the UK’s largest and most complex solar systems.
Andreas Fritzche, Managing Director,
Ethical Power Connections
Andreas has over 15 years experience in the High Voltage Contracting and Independent Connection Provider sectors, having previously worked in a senior management position at one of the country’s leading Independent Connection Providers. Andreas has successfully delivered hundred’s of MW worth of...
Mark Copley, Associate Professor,
University of Warwick
Mark Copley is an Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials at WMG. His research spans active materials, additives, scale-up, processing and novel cell design. Areas of application are lithium ion, sodium ion and solid-state batteries. Mark has recently joined WMG, previous to this he was a...
Serena Corr, Head of Department and Professor in Functional Nanomaterials,
University of Sheffield
Serena Corr is Chair of Functional Nanomaterials at the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Recipient of the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry lectureship in 2017, her research focuses on the design, synthesis and ...
Chris Jardine, Technical Director,
Joju Solar
Dr Christian Jardine is a founder member of Joju Solar and has been involved with solar PV since 2001 when he ran Oxford University's research into solar energy and microgeneration. He is recognised as one of the UK's foremost experts in the performance of solar PV and is the author of...
Richard Drew, Regional Account Manager,
Energy Saving Trust
Richard has spent most of his career to date working in the sustainable transport sector, starting out working for City Car Club (now Enterprise Car Club) in the early days of the sector in the UK working to launch successful car club schemes in Bristol, Bath and Cardiff as well as managing the...
Elizabeth Bohun, Lead Technologist in Electric Vehicle Integration,
Oxfordshire County Council
Elizabeth joined Oxfordshire County Council as Lead Technologist in EV Integration as part of the council’s iHub Innovation Team in 2019 and has recently delivered the joint Oxfordshire Electrical Vehicle Integration Strategy, working in partnership with Oxfordshire’s 5 district councils and has...
Steve Williams, Managing Director,
Clean Solar Solutions Ltd
Steve Williams is a global solar panel cleaning consultant and Managing Director of Clean Solar Solutions. He is also Managing Director of solar bird deterrent company Scaring Birds Ltd & Chair of the SEUK Rooftop O&M Working Group. Steve has knowledge of O&M in rooftop, ground mount...
Shamala Evans-Gadgil, Senior Project Manager: Transport and Innovation,
Coventry City Council
Shamala Evans is an experienced Senior Civil Engineer and Project Manager, possessing a breadth and depth of technical knowledge underpinned by strong academic learning and a demonstrable track record of success in the design and implementation of challenging, complex and wide-ranging...
Rajiv Gogna, Partner,
Lane Clark and Peacock
Rajiv is a Partner in the Technology & Analytics team within LCP, and lead the development of new market offerings in their energy and health analytics practices. He has a background in software development, data integration and artificial intelligence. He works closely with clients and...
Simon Proctor, Head of Origination,
Brook Green Supply
Simon is the Head of Origination at Brook Green Innovations (BGI) and responsible for BGI’s Optimisation and Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) products and services for energy storage and renewable generation assets – Providing asset operators with tailored route-to-market agreements for both merchant ...
Graham Kenyon, Managing Director,
G Kenyon Technology
Managing Director of the consultancy G Kenyon Technology Ltd, Graham is an electrical and systems engineering consultant who established his reputation designing and implementing control and information systems in the challenging environments world-class construction programmes, chiefly in the...
Adam Sharpe, Partner,
Everoze Partners Ltd
Active within the solar PV industry since 2014, Adam is a consultant specialising in managing the delivery of due diligence and project support services for over 1GW of PV assets worldwide, including the UK, Australia, the US and Mexico. His current focus is on exploring new models for the funding...
Hugh Brennan, Managing Director,
Hive Energy Limited
Since 2013 Hugh Brennan has been MD of Hive Energy and is responsible for UK business development and project management, achieving consent on over 300MW of ground mount PV since that time.?
He has over 30 years international operations & business development experience across...
Randolph Brazier, Director of Innovation and Electricity Systems,
ENA
Randolph is the Director of Innovation & Electricity Systems at the Energy Networks Association, and has over ten years of experience in the electricity and energy sector in the UK, Europe and Australia. Randolph leads teams looking at Digitalisation, Engineering, Future Networks (Open Networks ...
Will Farrell, Head of Operations,
Ubitricity
Will has operational experience within the EV infrastructure industry for 3 years and been with ubitricity DES UK LTD since the summer of 2019. During that time ubitricity has expended its charge point network to become the largest public network in the UK.
His experience includes Service and...
Tanya Sinclair, Policy Director, Uk And Ireland,
ChargePoint
Tanya has worked in electric vehicle policy for almost a decade, working with businesses, governments and a wide range of stakeholders to smooth the path for the uptake of electric vehicles. She chairs the EV Forum of the REA, the association for renewable energy and clean technology which...
Ian Johnston, CEO,
Osprey Charging Network
Ian has 17 years’ experience in the automotive, renewable energy and EV charging industries. Previous experience includes the development and operation of over 100 grid-connected renewable energy projects, including the UK’s largest portfolio of FIT-wind projects which was sold for £180m in 2018. ...
James Mckemey, Head Of The Insights Team,
Pod Point Ltd
James is a passionate advocate of electric vehicles, with nearly 10 years’ experience at Pod Point, following a career as an environmental consultant. As Pod Point’s second longest serving member, James has worked in Sales, Customer Operations and now Head of Insights, tasked with communicating to...
Charlie Blair, Managing Director,
Gravitricity
Charlie Blair is Managing Director of Gravitricity Ltd, the Edinburgh-based company developing ground-breaking underground electricity storage technology. The technology has fast response, very long life, and exceptional levelised cost of energy and is uniquely suited to deployment as part of the...
Charlie Cook, CEO/Founder,
Rightcharge
Charlie is the Founder and CEO of Rightcharge, the UK’s comparison site for electric car charging. He has a background in engineering and science having worked at CERN (Geneva) and studied MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance at Imperial Business school. Charlie started his electric car...
Phil Steele, Future Technologies Evangelist,
Octopus Energy
Philip Steele is responsible for innovation of tariffs, IoT and services at Octopus Energy having previously run his?own Smart Home start-up for 6 years. ?Since joining Octopus Energy, Phil has built on the Agile half-hourly tariff to launch?integrations with the IFTTT and Alexa services, multiple...
Tamar Bourne, Head of Smart Energy,
Regen
Tamar is the head of smart energy at Regen. She strives to be at the cutting edge of the energy sector through both thought leadership and pioneering projects. She leads Regen’s work in data and digitalisation, smart technologies and innovative supply models.Tamar’s first innovation project was The ...
Alastair Mumford, SWEP Regional Programme Manager - Devon,
Bristol City Council
Alastair Mumford has worked in the low carbon sector as a project manager and sector development programmes consultant. Alastair is Corporate Energy Manager for Devon County Council and Regional Programme Manager for the South West Energy Partnership between Bristol, Plymouth and Devon...
Tom Betts, Technical Director,
CREST
Tom Betts is the Technical Director of the UK's ISO17025 UKAS-accredited laboratory for traceable calibration of pyranometers, solar cells and full-size PV modules, based at Loughborough University. He leads the Applied Photovoltaics Research Group within the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems ...
Andrew Moore, Sales Director,
UKSOL – Helix Solar
Andrew Moore is the Founder and CEO of UKSOL Ltd (www.uksol.uk), the leading British solar PV module and solar solutions producer. Andrew is an Export Champion for the British Government’s Department for International Trade. UKSOL exports high quality solar PV modules to over 46 countries in five...
Charles Bradshaw-Smith, Chief Executive Officer,
Smartklub
Charles left the corporate world to establish SmartKlub because he believes community energy needs disrupting. Starting out in customer facing IT, Charles proved his innovation credentials by floating a dot com in personalised print and after successful exit joined E.ON in 2001, establishing its...
Jon Regnart, Automotive Trend Strategist,
APC
Jon is the APC’s Automotive Trend Strategist who is responsible for the updating the Automotive Council roadmaps and the APC’s supply chain analysis function. His role is to identify and communicate immediate and long term opportunities for the UK in transitioning to net zero mobility systems. Jon...
Christelle Barnes, Country Manager, UK,
SolarEdge
As UK Country Manager for SolarEdge Technologies, Christelle Barnes is responsible for spearheading the company’s ambitious growth strategy for its solar and critical power divisions in the UK and Ireland. Since taking on the role in 2016, she has overseen a more than 50% growth in SolarEdge’s UK...
Gareth Williams, Managing Director,
Caplor Energy
Gareth Williams has a deep rooted and evolving passion for the sustainability agenda. This has led him to develop from his family farming roots into a diversified rural business that includes a renewable energy business, property rental and farming activity based from Herefordshire. Three...
Paul Younger, Senior Associate Architect,
Hewitt Studios LLP
Paul Younger is a founding member of Hewitt Studios LLP, named the UK's Sustainable Architect of the Year for their pioneering work across the sector. Paul has a double-first from Newcastle University and 20 years experience in the education, transport and energy sectors. Environmental...
Anna Bright, Chief Executive,
Sustainability West Midlands
I have worked within the sustainability sector for the past 18 years and this reflects my personal interest and passion for environmental sustainability. I have been with SWM since 2013 and lead the organisation in its role as sustainability adviser to cross-sector organisations across the West...
Luke Strickland, Environment & Sustainability Team Lead,
Mott MacDonald
Luke is Mott MacDonald’s global practice leader for environmental assessment and his team delivers environmental, sustainability and carbon services in the Midlands region. Luke provides meaningful and creative environmental input across a wide range of sectors, clients and decision makers...
Helen Seagrave, Community Energy Manager,
Electricity North West Ltd
Helen is responsible for developing and delivering Electricity North West?s stakeholder-led Community and Local Energy Strategy. Since joining the Electricity North West in October 2017 Helen has been responsible for delivering an engagement and support programme for the community and local energy ...
Philip Coventry, Projects & Operations Manager,
Community Energy England
Philip is the Projects & Operations Manager at Community Energy England, following an MA and PhD focused on climate change policy and justice, including three published works. He is confident and enthusiastic, able to identify and engage with opportunities to improve and innovate.
Robert Proctor, Business Development Manager,
Community Energy Wales
Robert is the Business Development Manager for Community Energy Wales and has worked for the organisation from the very beginning developing a membership base of over 70 organisations throughout Wales.He is also Director of YnNi Teg a community owned wind turbine in Carmarthenshire that was a...
Kate Gilmartin, Senior Project Officer Rural Community Energy Fund North West,
Lancashire County Council
Kate has a master's degree in Renewable energy and has been working as a consultant in the sector for over 10 years. She has a breadth of experience in the spectrum of low carbon technologies and energy efficiency.In this time, Kate has also focussed on working with communities, to assist...
Dan Travers, Co-Founder,
Open Climate Fix
Dan started working in energy trading and risk twenty years ago in the newly deregulated electricity market in Australia. He has since worked in both energy and financial markets, consulting and providing quantitative solutions. In 2019 he co-founded the company Open Climate Fix, which is...
Anda Baumerte, Sustainability Manager,
Northern Powergrid Group
Anda is a low-carbon professional passionate about delivering sustainable societal outcomes. As sustainability manager at Northern Powergrid, her focus is on enabling net zero emissions' targets to be met in the Yorkshire & North East, and delivering stakeholder and policy engagement on...
Julian O'Kelly, Head Of Technology, Innovation And Research,
British Parking Association
Julian helps the BPA membership understand and respond to the opportunities posed by data, apps, shared mobility alongside connected, automated and electric vehicles. He brings a wealth of experience from senior management and research roles to support partnerships across the public, private and...
Jenny Figueiredo, EV Charging Project Manager,
Oxfordshire County Council
Jenny Figueiredo leads on delivering the Park and Charge Oxfordshire project on behalf of Oxfordshire County Council, and is keen to learn how this kind of innovative EV infrastructure can influence behaviour change. With over 10 years’ experience in partnership and communications roles in...
Sherwan Hassan, Global Business Developer,
Ezzing Solar
Sherwan is a Dutch expatriate, holding a degree in business administration with 10 years of experiences in sales and account management. He is fluent in four languages and considered an inspiring member whilst working in team.
Jamie Taylor, Senior Data Scientist,
University of Sheffield
In his current role as Senior Data Scientist in the Sheffield Solar research group at The University of Sheffield, Jamie is the lead researcher for the 'PV Monitoring Phase 3' NIA-funded project. Jamie has been working as a researcher in the field of solar PV for 10 years, developing...
Luke Osborne, Energy Solutions Advisor,
ECA
Luke joined ECA's technical team in 2018. Luke completed a mechanical and electrical apprenticeship with the Ford Motor Company in 1997 and has since held many technical roles, from site engineer to development engineer and global support. Following completion of an engineering degree with a...
Christelle Verstraeten, Senior Director European Policy,
ChargePoint
Christelle is Senior Director for European Policy at ChargePoint, the world’s leading and most open electric vehicle charging network. In this role, she is responsible for coordinating the company’s policy engagement in Europe with a focus on policy developments in the context of...
Michael Gallagher, Regional Energy Projects Manager,
Midlands Energy Hub
Michael started his career working at the Energy Saving Trust providing energy efficiency advice to the public. The role developed into consultancy work, working on fuel poverty related SLAs with Local Authorities in the Midlands. Michael then worked for Mark Group as a Solar PV system designer...
Phil Hart, Professor And Director Of Energy And Power,
Cranfield University
Professor Phil Hart joined Cranfield as Director of Energy and Power on 20 August 2018. Phil knows the University well having earned his MSc in marine technology and his PhD in subsea engineering from Cranfield. He has held a series of senior leadership roles within the energy and power sector in...
Stuart Elmes, Chief Executive Officer,
Viridian Solar
Stuart Elmes is founder and Chief Executive of Viridian Solar, a UK manufacturer of roof integrated photovoltaic solar panels. Stuart also serves as a director at Solar Energy UK, and is active in PV rooftop working groups and a founder member of the Solar Energy Scotland group. He is...
Alfred Ireland, Commercial Manager,
Ovo Energy
From the start of OVO?s exploration into EV charging technologies, Alfred has worked on bringing innovative products to customers. In addition to developing OVO?s smart charging offering, he helped develop the V2G product and proposition, which was recently awarded the prize for Best Consumer...
Eric Ling, Engagement Manager,
Vivid Economics
Eric advises government agencies, multinational energy companies, and non-governmental organisations on the economic impacts of the energy transition. Eric?s recent work includes modelling the Great Britain electricity system under a net zero emissions target, developing scenarios for the world...
Josh King, Operations Manager,
AES Solar
Josh King is Director of AES Solar. With over 40 years of uninterrupted trading, AES Solar is not only one of the oldest manufacturers of solar thermal in Europe, but also well established in the UK solar PV, energy storage and EV charging markets. Josh is also Vice-Chair of Solar Energy...
Joseph Crolla, Industry Skills Intelligence,
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
With experience of various aspects of funded skills provision, commercial training, and apprenticeships, Joe has held a variety of employer-facing advisory roles within different organisations. Having worked in the apprenticeships sector as the levy was introduced, he has seen the changes made to...
