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Vidhya was appointed the Chief Executive of Power to Change in January 2015. She was formerly the Deputy Chief Executive at independent think tank the Resolution Foundation, and was also the mental health lead for the personal health budgets delivery programme at NHS England. Vidhya worked at the...

Jon is consultant within the Energy Technology Consulting team at UK Power Networks Services. Jon has worked in the decentralised energy sector for six years with a focus on solar PV, energy storage, micro-grids and electric vehicle infrastructure. He works with clients looking to electrify their...

Jonathan studied Chemical Engineering at University College London and went on to complete his PhD at the University of Northumbria’s Newcastle Photovoltaics Applications Centre in 1992. He has worked in the renewable energy industry ever since – as an engineer at the Halcrow Group and as a senior...

Wayne Bexton is Head of Energy Services at Nottingham City Council and has worked in public sector energy and sustainability fields for over 15 years, having previously delivered sustainability advice in the private sector. Wayne has delivered numerous high profile, high value environmental...

Matthew is Head of Strategy for BEIS £505m Energy Innovation Programme, and works with colleagues across Whitehall to influence the Government’s wider £2.5bn investment in energy innovation.  He has spent 15 years in the UK civil service focussed on clean tech – including carbon capture &...

Caroline is Senior Policy Manager at the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE). Caroline leads on power sector policy and regulatory work focusing on combined heat and power and demand-side energy services – working closely with members and policymakers to promote the sustainable development...

Randolph is the Head of Innovation & Development at the Energy Networks Association, and has over seven years of experience in the power and energy sector. Randolph is responsible for co-ordinating and delivering a broad range of strategic industry challenges, including the development of...

Dr Maria Brucoli is a chartered research engineer with EDF Energy R&D working on innovative solutions for the current and future power generation and delivery. With over 14 years of experience, her work spans many fields of electrical engineering from design for building services to research on ...

Tim is Head of External Relations at Eversholt Rail Group, a leading rolling stock owner with a portfolio of over 3,500 passenger vehicles.  He manages strategic relationships with national and regional transport authorities and other stakeholders and sits on several cross-industry steering...

Dan Byles is a former soldier and MP. Whilst in Parliament he was a member of the Energy & Climate Change Select Committee and the founding Vice-Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities. In addition to being Chairman of SmarterUK, Dan is also Vice President of Corporate...

Steve Cains is Head of Power Solutions at PPS, leading the team on identifying and developing renewable energy and storage projects for public sector clients. He also oversees our Asset Management Business. Steve is passionate about the environmental benefits and revenue streams which can be...

Daire holds key responsibility for the Financial modelling of new projects including CAPEX and borrowing costs, potential revenue streams and operational costs. Daire uses his experience of the energy markets to identify the most appropriate revenue streams and uses these in the development of the...

Felix is Head of Commissioned Projects and leads Aurora’s consulting team. Felix advises utilities, investors and policy makers on UK energy markets. Recent projects include: advising on various multimillion-pound transactions of power infrastructure; leading the development of Aurora’s...

Tom is a project manager with a history of working in the renewables and energy industry within local government. Tom currently assumes a lead-role from project feasibility, business-case development, planning and delivery. He has overseen the installation of a number of major commercial and...

Nita Colaço is an Investment Manager in the Energy team at Octopus Investments, where she is responsible for deploying capital to grow Octopus’s portfolio of renewable assets in the UK and European markets. Previously, she worked in international development finance at Social Finance UK, where she...

Chris joined Cenex, a not-for-profit consultancy in low carbon transport, in early 2018 leading Cenex’ activities relating to energy and infrastructure for transport. This includes innovative R&D projects in areas such as vehicle-to-grid, wireless charging and microgrids as well as strategic...

Mark leads in understanding how our society is changing, from which he develops practical strategies so that the energy sector becomes smarter for everyone. He guides Utiligroup’s business, customers, affiliates and wider sector on the new capabilities that are required as our world becomes...

Rafael started his career in Colombia in environmental protection including working as an Environmental Consultant in the development of the Medellin Metro, Colombia.  Since relocating to the UK in 1989, Rafael has worked on the NET tram development at Nottingham City Council and in other public...

Ricky has been with Western Power Distribution for the last 10 years and is currently an Innovation and Low Carbon Network Engineer within the future networks team. Ricky specialises in Electric Vehicles & their impacts on the distribution networks and he project manages innovation projects...

Stephanie Edwards is currently Head of Infrastructure Policy in the UK Office for Low Emission Vehicles, the central government team that leads on electric vehicle policy for the UK. Her team sets the policy framework for electric vehicle infrastructure in the UK, including consulting on changing...

Patrick joined Northern Powergrid at the end of 2016 from INEOS Shale, where he led the Commercial and Business Development functions as well playing a wider role at INEOS Group level.Before that he was a Senior Civil Servant, most recently, until the end of 2013, in DECC heading up the Energy...

Joe is interested in creating public policy to promote a globalisation process which is responsible both culturally and ecologically. His work on local labour markets has featured in the Financial Times, the Guardian and on Sky News. He is a graduate of UCL and Goldsmiths, University of London and...

Paul has worked for many years in the automotive industry; both in engineering and project management at OEM and supplier companies including a period at a small technology development company; helping to develop, and produce, a range of electric vehicles. Since 2014 he has been involved in the...

Co-founder SolarCoin (73 countries, renewable energy reward) member IRENA Coalition for action·  Blockchain & Energy advisor to governments, ministers, G20, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNDP, Fortune 500, global banks and hedge funds·  MIT Solve winner UN HQ: chronic disease with blockchain solution·  Award...

Madeleine is the policy lead for Regen and the Electricity Storage Network, working to improve the policy environment for renewables, storage and smart technologies. Madeleine’s previous experience includes working in the heart of government to formulate policy, with particular experience on data...

Stirling Habbitts leads the renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure project finance activity of Triodos Bank NV in the London market.  Triodos Bank is one of the leading providers of finance to renewable energy projects in Europe by number of deals.  Triodos Bank is a Dutch bank focused on...

Joern Hackbarth is the Executive Vice President, Global Head of Engineering & Construction for Sonnedix, a solar Independent Power Producer with over 1.6 GW controlled capacity in eight countries. Joern’s team supports Business Development during the acquisition phase of existing and new-build...

Loic, Resilience Energy’s CEO, has worked in the energy retail industry for the past 10 years. In the past 4 years he has specialised in bringing new innovative suppliers into the market. He believes that these new innovative suppliers will find it difficult to change the future of the energy...

Chris Hewett joined the STA as Policy Manager in 2017 and became Chief Executive in January 2018. He has 25 years’ experience in advocacy, policy research, thought leadership and campaigning on a wide variety of sustainability, energy and environmental issues. He was Head of Climate Change for the...

Mark has over 17 years of experience in the energy industry in roles covering electricity trading, forecasting and pricing, project valuation, debt finance and corporate M&A with British Energy, Ecotricity and BSR. Mark leads the negotiation of PPA’s on behalf of our clients, most recently...

Stew leads the Energy Networks and Systems team at Citizens Advice, representing consumers in energy networks issues such as price controls where his is a member of Ofgem’s RIIO-2 Challenge Group, electricity charging reform and half-hourly settlement. Stew is a member of the Balancing and...

Alex has 13 years’ experience across industry and consulting, developing strategy and projects at various scales and across multiple sectors. At Origami, Alex works closely with the Executive team to set and communicate clear strategic priorities, and works cross-functionally mobilising the...

The consumer journey to buy energy storage systems is pivotal to a prosperous sector and Faisal’s role is to undertake research into the consumer buying process and develop effective solutions. With many years’ experience in marketing, project management, research and development Faisal is a Fellow ...

Chris is a lifetime petrol head but is now an official electric vehicle nerd. He currently works with large fleets in both the private and public sector in the major corporate sales team at Hitachi Capital. As part of this role, Chris offers insights into why change is needed and then supporting...

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...

Charlie Jardine is Founder and CEO at EO Charging, one of the UK’s leading electric vehicle charger manufacturers. Founded in 2017, the company has made over 7000 chargers to date and currently sells in 30 countries around the world including the UK, Norway and Australia. In 2019, Charlie was named ...

Tom Jarman advises on and develops built environment projects, primarily newbuild housing and retrofit of existing homes, within NCC and YHN.  His projects include offsite manufacturing, housing quality and performance, climate mitigation and adaptation, post-occupancy monitoring and...

Guy Jefferson has worked within the SP Group for over 25 years and has gained a wealth of experience in a number of different roles in the UK including Asset & Maintenance Director, Operations Director and SP Distribution Director. As well as completing International assignments for SP, Guy has ...

David joined M&G Investments in July 2011 as a Director in the Project and Infrastructure Finance team within Fixed Income. His prime responsibility is to assist M&G funds actively manage the existing c. £45bn infrastructure debt portfolio, including purchase & sale recommendations, and ...

John has worked for twenty years on the complex settlement systems needed to balance the GB power network. He now leads a team within the Design Authority of ELEXON, the Balancing and Settlement Company that sets metering standards for users of the GB power network, and runs the electricity...

Iagan leads on Policy at Smart Energy GB. He is based in Scotland.  Iagan has many years of experience working in media relations and public affairs for a variety of organisations such as Historic Scotland, The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, VisitScotland, and Digital UK. Iagan is experienced at...

Kyle Martin has over 10 years’ experience in regulation and policy, with time spent within the carbon and energy sectors. He currently works at LCP as Head of Market Insight in the business analytics energy department. Prior to this, he worked at Energy UK as Deputy Director focusing on market...

Jonathan Mather completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2018, majoring in Control Theory. His research focused on the integration of energy storage and flexible resources into energy markets, and transactive market design. In the course of his PhD studies, he worked at...

Myles has a diverse range of experience across Carbon Trust, having developed programmes ranging from new technology innovation and investments through to business advice on low carbon and energy efficiency technologies.   He has led our relationships with a range of multinational corporate...

Colin McKerracher manages coverage of the transport sector at BloombergNEF. Colin’s team covers the technology, policy and economic factors shaping the transport sector. This includes electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, batteries, shared mobility, autonomous driving and other new vehicle...

Gareth is Cornwall Insight’s Chief Executive and has worked in the energy sector in a variety of client, transaction, investment and project roles, first as head of energy project finance for a major bank and latterly as a policy advisor to DECC, focusing on designing policy to enhance investment...

Rona Mitchell is an Innovation Engineer at UK Power Networks, which she joined in 2016. She has a Masters in Engineering Science, first class, from the University of Oxford. She started her career in the oil and gas industry, and made the transition to fulfil her passion for renewable energy and...

Bob is Head of Environment Strategy at the UK’s Department for Transport having previously worked at the UK’s Office for Low Emission Vehicles, a cross Government policy unit working to position the UK as a global leader in the design, development, manufacture and deployment of zero emission...

"I have been plunged into the world of EV charging in the UK and have come to understand some of the key pinch points and market challenges. I am collaboratively working with the incredible team at Tonik to overcome such challenges. My background is in renewable energy sources research and my...

Luke Osborne is the Energy and Emerging Technologies Solutions Advisor for ECA, providing advice and technical coverage for Renewable Energy, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency and Emerging Energy trends for ECA members as well as advising on energy policy issues.Luke has a long engineering...

CEO Omar Rahim has traded energy for some of the largest trading houses in Europe, having managed over $3billion in energy assets worldwide over the last 12 years. He also has a track record in growing businesses from inception. EnergiMine, a tech start-up utilising AI and blockchain technology, is ...

Co-founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Repowering. Afsheen is a community energy specialist with over 10 years extensive experience of working with communities and Local Authorities. Afsheen sits as Chair of the Brixton Energy Solar Co-operatives the UK’s first inner-city community-owned...

Zosia joined Lightsource BP in 2016 to lead the growing Corporate PPA team.  With over a decade of senior-level experience in the energy sector, Zosia has a deep understanding of the energy markets including corporate energy procurement and risk management as well as off take arrangements for...

During a successful career in financial services Chris became concerned about climate change and the UK’s energy security (North Sea Oil and Gas were clearly going to run out at some point) so returned to university in 2001 to study a Master of Science degree in low energy architecture and...

She is a Senior Independent Director at SGN Network and has recently been appointed Chair of the BEIS/Ofgem Energy Data Taskforce to propose the use of data for whole energy system management.  Laura also runs the 21st Century Energy Regulatory Commission with Imperial College and the Energy...

Dr Jonathan Scurlock is the NFU Chief Adviser, Renewable Energy and Climate Change.  Since 2007 he has led a small team providing analysis and advice to the NFU's senior management, office holders and members.  His background is university and government research, covering energy and climate...

Lawrence Slade is the Chief Executive of Energy UK, the trade association for the GB energy industry with a membership of over 100 suppliers, generators, and stakeholders with a business interest in the production (using all forms of generation), retailing and transmission of electricity and gas...

Gavin Slater BSc (Hons) graduated with an Honours Degree in Environmental Science & Environmental Management from the University of Strathclyde and is the Group Manager - City Energy & RUGGEDISED for Glasgow City Council. As Group Manager - City Energy & RUGGEDISED, Gavin is tasked with ...

Graham Southall is Group Commercial Director with Northumbrian Water.  He leads the commercial activities for the regulated business, including their procurement function and energy strategy.  He is also responsible for their non-regulated portfolio, operating assets in Scotland, the Republic of...

Claire is the Balancing Programme Director for the GB electricity system operator, responsible for looking at how the electricity system and market will evolve in the future, what this means in terms of obeying the laws of physics and the controllability of the system, and how we need to change our ...

Dr KT Tan is the Chief Technical Officer of 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...

Tom Thackray leads the organisation’s policy work on infrastructure and energy, aiming to improve business connectivity and ensuring the UK maintains a secure, affordable and low-carbon supply of energy. In his time at the CBI Tom has held a variety of roles including leading the CBI’s Innovation...

Katie is the Low Carbon and Circular Economy Lead at York, North Yorkshire and East Riding’s Local Enterprise Partnership. Her role is focused on working collaboratively with partners to create a systemic shift towards a low carbon, circular future. Katie’s recent work includes leading the...

Alan leads the Energy Technology Consulting (ETC) team at UK Power Networks Services. The ETC team are experts in distributed energy solutions and power distribution. We provide detailed analysis and consulting services to optimise existing assets, integrate new technologies and deliver commercial...

Jacopo Torriti is a Professor of Energy Economics and Policy in the School of the Built Environment, University of Reading.   He is a Co-Director of the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS), where he leads work on flexibility. He is a member of Ofgem Academic Advisory Panel and ...

Since August 2015 Dhara has led the team working on new and emerging energy supply and services markets to protect and promote the interests of consumers, current and future.  The team works on energy policy related to household energy usage data, smart meters, heat...

Systems architect, mechatronic engineer, design leader and facilitator, Matthew is the author of Faraday Grid’s technology patents. In fulfilling Faraday’s ambition to unlock sustainable prosperity through electricity, he provides a conduit of understanding between complex interdependent dynamic...

Richard joined UK Power Networks in 2004 and brings 14 years of experience in the distribution industry, ten of which has focused on System Planning. He is now responsible for the Outage Planning within the London and South regions; this has led to him focusing on working with the industry to...