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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...

José Alfonso Teruel is an Engineer in Automatic and Industrial Electronics and he has a great experience of 14 years working in the PV energy sector. During his career path at Soltec Trackers, he has been involved in developping CPV modules, single-axis and two-axis trackers, and Soltec SF7...

Throughout his career, Matt has been involved in various parts of the energy value chain from market research and consulting (Bloomberg New Energy Finance) to electricity supply (Good Energy and Tempus Energy) and renewables development (Livos Energy). Matt has also served in the US Peace Corps in...

Joining OVO Energy in 2013, Elizabeth has held roles across the Trading and Finance teams as the company grew from 100k customers to the UK’s leading independent  energy supplier with over 1.3m customers. In this time Elizabeth has led the analysis and forecasting of energy costs, pricing strategy...

Karl Anders is the UK MD of innogy eMobility Solutions. A new company within the Innogy group which specializes in supplying electric vehicle charging solutions for businesses.Karl has recently come from Nissan GB where he held the role of National EV Manager – Corporate Sales. He has previously...

Greg Archer is UK Director of the environmental group Transport and Environment (T&E) a Federation of 60 groups across Europe campaigning for sustainable mobility. In this role he leads efforts for stronger UK policies towards net zer transport emissions. Greg recently returned to the UK after...

Shurooque is a power system engineer at National Grid Electricity System Operator. Her team looks at network risks and operability issues and produces documents such as System Operability Framework (SOF). She has worked across various roles of network design, economic assessments and outage...

Ana is a Principal in Aurora’s consulting team.  Ana has over ten years of professional services experience with an extensive energy market modelling, forecasting, and advisory background for utilities, financial institutions, and infrastructure developers in the US, Latin America and Europe. ...

Graeme leads work on innovation within Ofgem’s network price control team. He is designing the arrangements for the RIIO-2 innovation stimulus and running the annual gas and electricity Network Innovation Competitions.Graeme previously worked in Ofgem’s Switching Programme in the retail...

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...

Eamonn is the Head of Market Strategy at GridBeyond. His background in energy markets, policies and regulations spans ten years. Eamonn holds Masters degrees in Physics from the University of Bristol and in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. Having worked for a decade on the...

Dan Bentham is the Managing Director of Ubitricity UK, the UK’s leading on-street EV charging network operator. Dan has worked in the low carbon energy sector for the past 15 years including 10 years at EDF Energy, the UK’s largest generator of low carbon electricity. During his career Dan has...

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 &...

Christoph Birkl is the CEO and co-founder of Brill Power, based in Oxford, UK. He earned a B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Engineering at the Management Center Innsbruck, Austria, a M.Sc. in Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark, and a PhD in Engineering Science at the ...

Børge Bjørneklett is the CTO and Chairman of Ocean Sun. He has more than 20 years of experience with technology development and innovation from the automotive, offshore O&G and solar industries. By combining elements from different areas he filed a patent for a new floating solar system and...

Gravitricity is developing mechanical energy storage technology for grid-scale applications.  Charlie Blair joined Gravitricity in 2015 having been Head of Marine Energy in the Carbon Trust's Innovation Team. He is an experienced commercial leader, delivering millions of pounds of innovation...

Lis Blunsdon is a partner in the London Energy Regulatory team and has extensive experience in UK and European energy regulation, energy M&A transactions, negotiating power purchase and gas sales agreements and structured energy trading transactions. Her clients include project...

John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (Energy Efficiency) (EUCOC) programme and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award (CEEDA) which assesses data centres to a subset of...

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...

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...

Mark Bramah is the Managing Consultant of Municipia providing consultancy services to local authorities on a range of energy projects relating to the ‘remunicipalisation’ of energy services. He was the architect of and lead officer in developing APSE’s unique local authority energy collaboration...

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...

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...

David Brown, PhD is the co-founder and CEO of BroadBit Batteries (www.broadbit.com: novel, high performance sodium based batteries) and has been a Fulbright Fellow (atmospheric physics) and a co-founder and former CEO of Canatu (www.canatu.com: carbon nanomaterial based electronics, optics and...

Anthony leads on Northumbrian Water’s ambitious energy strategy which will see the Company achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2027. Prior to joining Northumbrian Water, Anthony completed a Doctorate in Post Combustion Carbon Capture at the University of Nottingham before spending two years working in the ...

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 ...

Martin has 35 years’ experience of working in the engineering and environment sectors. He is an accomplished leader, with strong technical, communication and motivational skills used to successfully deliver projects of a difficult and sensitive nature.  He has considerable experience of...

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...

Ian Cameron has over 20 years’ international experience in the electricity distribution networks industry. His background is in network operation, capital construction and connections, with a specific focus on renewable energy and system optimisation, this focus is supported through his Electrical...

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...

Roberto is the CEO of Ikigai, a group of companies operating in the Energy Transition space. The group has three complementary business lines: Ikigai Capital, advisor to investors and I&C, Ikigai Energy, developer of BtM holistic energy solutions and Ikigai AXL, cleantech growth...

Richard Cave-Bigley is the Director of Distributed Generation and Storage at SSE Enterprise, and leads the development of new distributed energy solutions for SSE’s customers. Previously to joining SSE, Richard worked in gas, power and renewables markets, and in particular in developing low carbon...

Tim is CEO and founder of coolDC, a data centre design, build and operator company established with the purpose of delivering sustainable, energy efficient and demand driven IT solutions to a wide range of businesses within and beyond the UK.With over 30 years’ experience of the IT and...

Filippo started his career in the Energy Industry in 2008 as Energy Efficiency Engineer for a major electricity supplier. Over the years he worked with a large variety of industrial and commercial customers, in the UK and across Europe, managing Energy Performance Contracts throughout their life...

Mike Childs has worked at Friends of the Earth for almost 30 years on a range of issues, from factory pollution, to recycling, to climate change. He led the team that ran the successful campaign for the Climate Change Act, and supported sister Friends of the Earth groups across Europe who ran...

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...

Emeka is a member of the leadership team for Enel X UK & Ireland, where he provides strategic direction in the areas of energy markets, commercial growth strategy, new business lines & product development, energy projects, and regulatory & government affairs.Through his role at Enel...

Matthew Clayton is Managing Director of Thrive Renewables plc, a renewable energy investment company. He has been with Thrive since 2006 and during that time he has contributed to 15-fold growth of the company. Prior to joining Thrive, Matthew was part of the team which set up Camco...

James has worked in the field of renewable energy, with a focus on Solar PV since 2010. With a degree background in Renewable Energy, he has worked with many prestigious clients to support them on installing and maintaining their Solar PV assets across the UK. He has supported the deployment of...

Starting her career as a mechanical engineer, Celine gained 7 years’ experience in the automotive sector in France and the UK before taking an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures from Imperial College London.Celine leads the transport team in the London office of Element Energy, and has delivered...

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...

James Cox is a Director and is Head of Market Analysis within Pöyry, leading work on valuation, market projections and model development.  He has 18 years’ experience in energy market modelling, including designing energy models, running multi-client studies and valuing individual assets and...

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...

I am an Associate Lecturer and Associate researcher at the Department of Environment and Geography, University of York. I am an interdisciplinary ecologist, specializing in ecosystem functions and ecosystem services. My current research interests cover evidence review to establish causal links...

Kitty was one of the first people to join Geo Green Power back in 2010 and knows this company inside and out. She initially joined us part time whilst taking a masters course in Psychology, following a conversion from Law, however very quickly she became an integral part of the company and was...

Tom is Head of Bus Business Development at Transport for London. His role covers a variety of areas including the bus safety programme, air quality, applying innovation to the bus network, property and contracting. He has worked in Buses team at TfL for over 15 years in a number of positions, and...

As Head of Solar & Storage O&M, Brian is responsible for delivering a high quality service for all RES managed assets. An engineer with 15 years’ operational experience, Brian has experience on a wide range of large scale assets in the wind, solar and storage sector throughout the UK and...

Caroline Davies is a Business Manager for the Energy sector at the Met Office.  This role gives me the opportunity to work with people across the energy sector to help develop and deliver solutions to meet the challenges industry face.  Working for the Met Office for 17 years, I started my career...

Sara has been supporting the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure team within SSE for the last three years through activity including strategic work, business development, product development and innovation. She is currently leading the Innovate UK funded Bus2Grid project, a first of a kind...

Prof Yulong Ding, founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering and RAEng-Highview Chair of Cryogenic Energy Storage, is Director of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. He focuses on thermal and liquid air energy storage and process intensification, and leads a group of ~40 PDRAs & PhDs...

Jim Donaldson is Director of Innovation for Hitachi Social Innovation EMEA. He has over 15 years’ experience delivering IoT, AI and Big Data based solutions in Security, Software and Energy systems and holds 15 patents. Prior to Hitachi, Jim spent 10 years as CTO of an Oxford University spin-out...

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...

Gauthier has over 20 years of international experience in the fields of power systems, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainability, with firms from Belgium, Germany and the UAE. Throughout his career he has worked with decision makers in industry and governments on the highest...

Alex is the UK Country Manager for Alfen, a market-leading manufacturer of smart EV charge points and large-scale battery storage systems. Driven by his passion for sustainability and energy, Alex moved into the renewable sector in 2009, working for a not-for-profit organisation supporting solar...

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...

Steve is responsible for the development of large scale PV and the commercialisation of flexibility at SIMEC, part of the Gupta Family Group. In the UK, GFG owns and operates Steel and Aluminium manufacturing plants in Rotherham and Western Scotland and intermediate and automotive component...

James Ellsmoor is an entrepreneur and writer, focusing on promoting renewable energy for remote island and rural communities. He is Co-Founder and Director of Solar Head of State, an international nonprofit working with governments in the Caribbean and Pacific islands to raise awareness of...

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 the Solar Trade Association, and is active in solar thermal and PV rooftop working groups and a founder member of the STA Scotland...

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...

Simon has nearly 20 years experience in the sustainable energy field, ranging from insulation, heating and renewables programme delivery to procurement and contract negotiation and management for estate wide energy retrofit projects in the South East. With a background in project development and...

Grant is Senior Design Engineer and part of the senior management team at AES solar, the longest established solar thermal collector manufacturer in western Europe and a leading company in the UK solar energy industry specialising in solar thermal, solar PV, battery storage and EV charging...

With over 25 years of engineering experience coupled with numerous successful high-level project and man management initiatives to his name Jason Fewell has a rare and much sought-after ability to utilize his skills to develop a business on a practical level and achieve bottom line results.  The...

Head of asset management of three Clean energy private equity funds ( circa 850 MW under Management) responsible for all technical and commercial management from fund level to trading entities. overseeing contractual obligations, negotiations, related assurance and value focused delivery of...

Emma leads the data centre programme for technology sector trade body techUK, representing the interests of UK operators to Government and other stakeholders. She influences policy, mitigates compliance burdens, alerts the sector to risks and manages specialist groups, including the UK Council of...

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...

Prof Mark Gillott, Chair in Sustainable Building Design, has over 24 years’ experience in low carbon sustainable energy technologies and sustainable building design. He is the research and project manager for the multi-award winning Creative Energy Homes low/zero carbon housing project which...

Virginia has extensive experience in sustainable energy policy. Virginia is currently Chief Executive of the Renewable Energy Assurance Ltd. As well as running the Renewable Energy Consumer Code and several certification schemes including the Green Gas Certification Scheme, she also advises a range ...

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...

Ben is the Head of the Gresham House New Energy division and Fund Manager for the British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF).He founded Hazel Capital (now Gresham House New Energy) in April 2007 and was the managing partner and chief investment officer.With over 20 years of investment...

Dr. Jingli Guo is currently with the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Before joining Aston University, Jingli had worked as a researcher at Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and the University of Manchester, UK. Her...

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...

Mansoor Hamayun is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BBOXX, a next generation utility, powering growth and transforming lives. BBOXX uses smart, solar technology alongside pioneering financing techniques to improve energy access across Africa and the developing world. Since 2010, BBOXX has...

Mark founded Solo in Orkney in 2015 to develop a disruptive new business model based on delivering a 100%-renewable future through Virtual Power Plant technology. Solo installs batteries and other flexibility assets such as smart EV chargers at no up-front cost to home and business consumers. Our...

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...

Robert has been a stalwart of the solar industry for over 10 years.During that time he has advised councils, major FM companies, farmers, the NHS and many other major businesses on installing solar PV.Now, as director of Helios O&M, he is educating those same organisations as to why it is...

Andy has established three community benefit energy societies, including Energise Barnsley - the largest community energy rooftop solar project in the U.K. He represents Community Energy England on the Energy Networks Association Distributed Energy Steering Group, and Energise Barnsley on Ofgem’s...

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...

Nick has a background in cutting-edge innovation & technology research, with leading experience in energy storage, smart grid software, and low-carbon network development.Nick was responsible for leading Europe’s first large-scale 6MW battery storage project to provide commercial balancing...

Will is founder and CEO of Above and a pioneer in the use of aerial inspection and data analytics within the utility scale solar sector. An engineering graduate and a keen private pilot of 30 years, Will has extensive commercial experience, having held several senior posts in banking and legal IT...

Mike Hodgson is a Business Analyst at myenergi.He has worked in the Royal Navy, the Chemical Industry for 20 years and in the Renewable Energy sector for the last 10 years. Mike has worked in Offshore Wind on Lynn, Inner Dowsing, Lincs and Teesside windfarms.He gained an MSc in Colour Application...

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...

Sam was appointed Director of Economics and Corporate Services in July 2018, having joined Energy UK four years earlier.Sam has policy responsibility for Energy UK’s Strategic Policy Committee and New Energy Services and Heat Committee, in addition to overseeing the internal functions of the trade...

Dr Chris Horne is the Commercial Director and myenergi Ltd a manufacturer of devices for integrating renewable energy generation, heating and electric mobility.   Myenergi products are smart by design, integrating features that make them intuitive and easy to use, simple to install and ready to...

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...

David Horsfall, Director of Tyseley Energy ParkChartered Surveyor with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and an associate member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. David is leading on the consolidation of the manufacturing operation and the delivery of Tyseley Energy Park (TEP). Through ...

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...

David Howey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he leads a research group focused on modelling, diagnostics and control of electrochemical energy devices and systems, with a particular focus on batteries. He has active current...

Mark Howitt will be speaking at 11:25 on Thursday 19th September on Storage Converting Intermittent Generation to Variable and Baseload. The company is exhibiting in the Innovation Zone.Mark Howitt is Chief Technical Officer of Storelectric, a founding director. He leads Storelectric’s technical...

David Hunt is a prominent figure and thought leader in the clean energy sector. Hailed as a leading green entrepreneur by the Financial Times, David also presents at industry events such as EcoSummit, Energy Storage Europe and Fully Charged Live. His industry insights have been quoted in UK...

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 ...

Paul Hutchens is the Founder and CEO of Eco2Solar, a leading provider of solar, storage and smart technologies mainly to national housebuilders such as Barratts and Persimmon which employs over 60 people. Eco2Solar operates nationwide with offices in Worcester, Glasgow and Liverpool.Paul Is also a...

Sarah is the senior researcher writer and leads on energy topics for Which? magazines and which.co.uk. She designs and implements investigations into consumer-focused topics including smart meters, customer experience, domestic energy prices and solar panels. Sarah is responsible for Which?’s...

Dr Preye Ivry is the Lead Project Manager for the VIGIL project. Working as a Network Innovation Engineer, he supports the development and delivery of innovation projects, providing technical solutions for distribution network management and for the optimisation of distributed energy...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Thomas is a highly knowledgeable energy professional who has worked across multiple fields in energy, from trading energy to providing energy consultancy services to construction, industrial, commercial and technology companies.  As part of KiWi Power’s Energy Storage team, Thomas works to optimise ...

James Johnston is the CEO and Co-founder of Piclo. Prior to Piclo, James spent 3 years researching building-integrated direct current microgrids at University of Strathclyde. James is also the founder of Solar Sketch, a design company for the solar industry and worked as a building services...

Felicity is a Partner at Everoze, where she set up the energy storage service line; she specialises in innovative business models for distributed energy assets. Everoze is a technical and commercial consultancy working across solar, wind, storage and system flexibility, with an emphasis on making...

Adnan Karic is an application engineer at DV Power, working in the battery testing group. After receiving his MSc, he has worked as a product engineer for battery testing instruments. His responsibilities include improvement of battery testing equipment, providing technical support to DV Power...

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 ...

Marek leads Fluence’s UK and Ireland client solutions team; responsible for overseeing energy storage sales and project proposals across UK&I, the Middle East and Africa.  He has a decade of experience in cleantech, including an instrumental role in delivering Europe’s first commercial battery...

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...

Robyn Lucas is Head of Data Science at Open Energi. Robyn works on demand flexibility in the UK electricity network; modelling, forecasting and optimizing the usage and performance of distributed energy resources – including electric vehicles  and battery storage - to enable customers to...

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...

Dr Steve Mahon is CEO of Armstrong and also a co-founder. He has had a successful career in commercialising low carbon technologies with over 15 years in the sector and a track record in selecting and managing high growth low carbon companies, both in the private and public markets. He combines a...

Will is a Policy Lead on the Smart Export Guarantee at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, sitting with the Clean Electricity Directorate, and working with colleagues across BEIS to develop policy for smart and flexible future energy systems. He joined BEIS in 2018 to...

Dr. Alastair Martin is a professional energy engineer with over 26 years of experience in the energy industry, ranging from gigawatt-scale coal and nuclear power stations, through industrial energy efficiency, to small wind, solar, biomass and hydro generators.In 2004, Alastair founded Martin...

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...

Ricardo is Professor of Turbomachinery at Imperial College London, and Head of the Thermofluids Division in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He leads a research group in the area of low carbon vehicles with particular emphasis on highly downsized engines, turbochargers and energy storage...

Dan is Manager of the charity Awel Aman Tawe (AAT) and a Director of Awel Co-op and Egni Solar Co-op.Dan has led the development of Awel Co-op community wind farm north of Swansea since 1998. The 4.7MW scheme was finally commissioned in January 2017. It was funded by a £3m share offer and a loan of ...

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...

Scott McGregor is Chief Executive Officer at redT energy plc, a UK company which specialises in energy storage infrastructure solutions. A passionate energy and technology industry leader, Scott has been at the coal-face of the energy storage industry for over a decade, leading redT’s efforts to...

Maria is the Chief Innovation Officer at Verv. Verv unlocks unique energy insights from the home using an AI hub. With the aim of cutting carbon emissions, Verv is also bringing to life a peer-based green electricity sharing platform on the blockchain in London. Maria is a global keynote speaker...

A passionate advocate of electric vehicles, James joined Pod Point in February 2011 following a career as an environmental consultant. As Pod Point’s third longest serving member, James has worked in Sales, Customer Operations and now Head of Insights, tasked with communicating to industry and key...

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...

Dr. Frank Meyer is acting as Senior Vice President B2C/SME Solutions, E-Mobility and Innovation at E.ON SE. He is globally responsible for setting up and accelerating E.ON’s innovation and new growth areas. In 2012, Dr. Meyer joined Vodafone Germany as Director Strategy and New Business...

Heading up our heating installation team, Isaac joined Geo Green Power a couple of years ago after building his own successful plumbing and heating company. He was interested in the work that Geo Green Power were involved with and wanted to further his career in the renewable energy industry. He’s...

Robert brings with him a vast amount of experience in the renewablesector, with a particular specialisation in battery storage. Robert qualifiedas a lawyer, and has been involved in the solar industry for over a decade,working throughout central Europe and the UK. Having worked as a Headof...

Iain Miller joined Northern Powergrid, the electricity distribution network operator (DNO) for the North East, Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, in 1992.  With more than quarter of a century of experience in the energy sector, Iain is the DNO’s Head of Innovation.  He leads the company’s...

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...

Professor Hervé Morvan is the Chief of Future Platforms at Rolls-Royce, an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS). He joined Rolls-Royce in early 2018 following 5 years at the head of the Institute for Aerospace Technology (IAT) at...

Alastair Mounsey is UK Country Manager at JA Solar.Responsible for UK operations of JA Solar having lead the time at JA Solar for 9 years.

Graduated of civil engineering of the MSc Engineering Centrale Nantes and Msc Sciences and Techniques of urban environment in 2009, Benjamin has been working for EDF R&D for 10 years, first in the European Institute for Energy Research in Germany as a research engineer and project manager. He...

Ypatios Moysiadis’ early years spent growing up in an industrial coal mining town in Northwest Greece had a profound effect on his career and helped embed a focus on sustainability in all his future ventures. Starting as a management consultant, he specialised in assisting pre-seed and growth phase ...

Rajni joined Citizens Advice in 2016. Initially working on smart metering policy, she sat on numerous industry codes and government working groups advocating on behalf of energy consumers. Since 2018, Rajni has been responsible for the organisations policy work on smart home technologies and how...

Stuart Nelmes joined Highview in June 2011 as Engineering Team Leader and was initially responsible for the overall management of the pilot plant and engineering office at Slough. As Engineering Director, Stuart is now responsible for all the Company’s engineering and related development activity...

Simon is the Strategic Development Lead at the Police Digital Security Centre (PDSC), which is a not-for-profit organisation focused on supporting small and medium sized-businesses reduce their vulnerability to cyber crime. Simon has held a number of senior management positions across...

Dr Richard Norris is a Consulting Partner at Helios Investment Partners where he co-manages $500 million of investments.  Helios IP is an Africa focused Private Equity fund which invests across multiple sectors.   Prior to joining Helios, he was a CEO of Candax Energy (TSX listed) managing oil...

Gill is DSO Lead in ElectraLink’s Transformation Services business, with 20 years’ experience across utility, energy and environmental technologies sectors. Gill now delivers data-driven innovation across the energy landscape, working with DNOs, energy suppliers and innovators, to unlock the value...

"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...

Richard is responsible for delivering and optimising Roadnight Taylor’s behind the meter energy solutions. He has over 20 years energy industry experience holding senior commercial roles at National Power (npower) involving energy procurement, demand forecasting, hedging and trading...

Tom is a Managing Consultant in Cornwall Insight with over 15 years within the energy sector, working in electricity, gas and oil. of Public Private Partnership experience. He has worked at EDF, OFGEM, Origami Storage, Consulting (AEA, Palantir, URS). Toms work experience has been focused on energy ...

Neil is an innovator; passionate and excited by the potential for technology to transform the experiences and connections between people and organisations for good.Following a career in the Energy Industry including BG, PwC, IBM, United Utilities, npower, RWE, latterly as Smart Programme Director...

Yannis is a Technology Principal in BP’s Digital Innovation Organisation, which sits at the frontier of BP’s strategy for delivering heat, light and mobility services across the world. He leads emerging digital technology exploration and development across a diverse set of low carbon areas, from...

Ed Porter is redT’s Energy Assets Director, having joined the company in December 2018 from Gazprom Marketing & Trading where he held the position of Power Portfolio Manager, responsible for 1GW of UK assets.Prior to this, Ed held various senior positions within the fields of energy trading and ...

Chris is Head of the Energy Team at Foot Anstey, with a key focus on emerging technologies in energy and a particular interest in the opportunities to bring these all together in hybrid energy charging projects that put customer experience right at the heart. Chris has recently been selected as one ...

Prior to her current position, Audrey Quehen was Head of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs in a French Professional Association in the energy sector between 2014 and 2017.She previously held several senior managing positions in Market Intelligence, Executive Secretary and Public Affairs...

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 ...

In my current role at National Grid my focus is on ensuring our transmission network plays a proactive role in enabling the uptake of electric vehicles. Previously I’ve held a range of roles commercialising new energy technologies and delivering infrastructure investments, including in distributed...

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...

Tara joined Lightsource BP in 2019, as a Senior Business Development Manager for the Republic of Ireland. Prior to joining Lightsource BP, Tara worked on both the origination side and the advisory side of large infrastructure transactions in the UK, primarily in the Energy from Waste and Electric...

George has worked in infrastructure, sustainable energy and private equity for the last 12 years. He joined Zouk Capital LLP, a London based private equity fund manager, in 2012 and has worked on a variety of asset classes including wind, solar, waste to energy and most recently for the last 3...

James is the founder of WinningCIO ltd which is a technology consulting business that provides business the opportunity to access FTSE250 scale CIO’s with 10 plus years experience on a portfolio basis. James, himself is a CIO with 15+ years experience at board level with ArrowXL, Drax Group...

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...

Dr Matthew Rowe is a Senior Consultant at DNV GL Energy and currently Head of Department for Energy Storage across Northern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Matthew is a Chartered Engineer and has a PhD in Energy Storage, he has published in internationally recognised energy journals, and often...

Mike Ryan is the Asset Management Director at Anesco, where he focuses on maximising returns on the solar and storage assets Anesco owns through optimising revenue from wholesale markets and grid services. He joined Anesco in 2018 having previously worked for National Grid Electricity System...

Candace Saffery Neufeld is the founder and CEO of Bia.  Candace has devoted her professional career to renewable energy and clean tech innovation.  The majority of Candace’s work has been in clean tech startups in Canada and the US and now she is leading a new start up based in Spain.  Her industry ...

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...

Dörte did her Master’s in Environmental Technology specialising in Environmental Economics and Policy at Imperial College London. She started her career at Ofgem, working among other things on the Call for Evidence on ‘a Smart Flexible Energy System’ within the Flexibility Team. While at...

Alexander Schönfeldt has been Managing Director of Enerox GmbH since 1.7.2018. He takes care of management of transformation processes and commercialization of innovative technical solutions in the energy sector. Over the last 20 years he achieved multiple successful technology go2markets such as...

KiWi Power is an energy technology company based in the UK with 1GW+ assets across Europe. Quentin leads KiWi Power’s energy storage business, which provides control, dispatch, market access and trading optimisation technology for energy storage systems across Europe. At KiWi, Quentin has...

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...

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 ...

Rob is the Economic and Regulatory Advisor for ElecLink - a new 1000MW HVDC interconnector providing a transmission link between the UK and France through the Channel tunnel. Rob provides advice on market, economic, regulatory and energy policy issues and the development of the regulatory and...

Ed qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen in 1998. He has been working with growth companies since 2000, as a corporate finance adviser, COO / CFO and investor. His focus on social impact and sustainable investing started in 2008 at Bridges Ventures and until 2018 he was head of...

Tanya is one of the UK’s leading electric vehicle policy specialists with almost a decade’s experience in the sector. Currently working as ChargePoint’s Director of Policy for UK and Ireland, she supports ChargePoint’s growth in the UK and Europe.  She also spends time on initiatives and projects...

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 ...

Jason Smith is a Clean Air Delivery Officer within the Early Measures project team at Transport for Greater Manchester. The role of the Early Measures project is to encourage the uptake of Electric Vehicles in Manchester. This is to be delivered by investing in new infrastructure and also...

Peter Solly leads on solar PPA for AMP Clean Energy, developing and financing rooftop solar PPA in the post subsidy era.  He  has worked in renewables for a decade, initially leading the biomass business Forest Fuels which was bought by AMP Clean Energy in 2016; and then moving into project finance ...

Claire is passionate about facilitating the transition to a decarbonised, decentralised energy system through embracing innovative and disruptive technologies; and promoting the growth of diversity and inclusion in the energy sector. She is currently Director of National Grid Smart, National Grid’s ...

David is the New Business Manager in the Balancing and Revenue Services Team of the Electricity System Operator. David leads a team of Account Managers responsible for contract and relationship management of providers of balancing services to the ESO. David and his team are engaged in the programme ...

Pol Spronck is Head of Selected Markets International – North, for SOLARWATT, the leading German manufacturer of complete photovoltaic systems, comprising intelligent battery systems, glass-glass solar panels and energy management systems.An MSc in International Business, Pol began his career in...

Dr Maria Spyrou works for Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick, helping teams to develop and deliver their sustainability initiatives. Maria was the Energy Efficiency Manager for M&S for 3 years, developing and delivering more than £20M worth of energy efficiency initiatives. She also spent 5 years...

Bengt Stahlschmidt (born in Siegen Germany, April 1963) is GM for VARTA storage GmbH and in his role responsible for the total energy storage business. In the last 5 years he was setting up the international sales for battery storage companies. His previous activities have been: Share holder and...

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...

Marcus is a respected expert on the future of energy with over two decades experience in electricity and gas networks with National Grid. He leads National Grid’s work on the Future Energy Scenarios. He is responsible for developing the long term supply and demand scenarios that underpin National...

Jason Stocks is Head of Demand and Flexible Generation at Limejump. With a background in PFI Infrastructure investment, he has spent the last 4 years within the technology sector covering Sales, Strategy and Contract Negotiation.Most recently Jason has been responsible for structuring a number of...

Sam Street is a manager at Frontier Economics and leads projects for a variety of public and private sector clients in the UK and European energy sector, advising on a wide range of issues including electricity and gas market design, regulation, state aid, and investor due diligence. Most recently...

David Talbot MSc, MBA, MCMI, is a research coordinator at Transport for London, he focuses on developing and delivering research projects designed to improve the efficiency or reduce the negative impact of transport on the city. Currently he is involved in research to increase uptake of...

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...

Gordon is a South African who has been working in the Berlin start-up eco-system for the past 7 years. He has helped start several companies both as a founder and angel investor. His roles have included building products, customer development, raising venture capital, business...

Matthew is the project finance director for Metka EGN, a solar developer and EPC contractor part of the Mytilineos group, an Athens-listed energy/industrial conglomerate.  He joined Metka EGN in early 2018 to cover structuring and financing of projects within the development team. Metka EGN...

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 ...

Steve Turner is Assistant General Secretary of Britain and Ireland's largest trade union, Unite the Union, with responsibility for the union's manufacturing sector.  He has been a trade unionist since joining the then Transport and General Workers Union in 1982 on his first day at work as a ...

Mark is Business Development Director at Wyelands Bank Plc. Mark has 25 years experience in banking and asset finance including the funding solar and energy storage projects.Wyelands Bank Plc is an independently owned and managed British bank focused on global trade. It has been created to help...

Matt heads up business development for Macquarie Principal Finance’s solar initiative. Matt is responsible for deal origination, project development, structuring, investment underwriting and execution. He is currently overseeing the development of over 1GWp of solar installations across...

MEng Electrical & Computer Engineer with core knowledge on e-mobility, renewable energy and power networks. Currently at CENEX supporting a number of major R&D and consultancy projects providing strategic advice on electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure planning and rollout across the...

Andrea Viaro is responsible for the technical activities at JinkoSolar Europe since 2014, lately overseeing also product developments’ launch in the EU market. He has been working in the PV sector for the last nine years in similar roles at other tier-1 module manufacturer and technical consultancy ...

Michael Walls has spent almost equal time in industry and universities.  He has founded companies in thin film optical coating and in thermal management systems.  Since 2009, he has been Professor of Photovoltaics in the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) at Loughborough...

Claire Weiller leads Nuvve’s business models and new markets analysis on the sales & marketing team.  Claire has been at Nuvve since 2018 and is the third person of the London office.  As part of her role, she develops financial models and customer propositions valuing the flexibility of...

Kevin Welstead is Sector Director for Electric Vehicles having held senior positions in Lighting, Contracting, HV and latterly the HS2.Having joined SSE in 1989 as an apprentice cable jointer after finishing his apprenticeship a year early Kevin went on to be a craftsman working on networks up to...

Sam joined Centrica in early 2017 to work on the Cornwall Local Energy Market, an innovation project part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. As Product Manager, Sam is responsible for market and regulatory analysis, product definition and strategy, and development of Centrica's...

Steve Williams continues to lead award-winning O&M company, Clean Solar Solutions as they expand internationally.  He has extensive knowledge of solar panel cleaning at a global level, studying soiling types and cleaning techniques for countries such as Australia, Gibraltar, Mexico, Northern...

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...

Dr Jin Yang is a Lecturer of Power Engineering and Programme Director of BEng Professional Engineering (Power Systems) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Aston University. He has over ten years of research experience in academia in the field of power system analysis and...

For 13 years I've led GAIA (GAIA Active Limited), an energy management consultancy leading innovative projects to support energy professionals. I also Founded of The Energy Club network supporting energy practitioners UK wide and elected Chairman of the highly respected Retail Energy Forum.My...

Mrs. Zhen Zhou is responsible for the marketing, communication, and strategic market development at Suntech Europe. With a decade of working experience in the European photovoltaic industry, she is passionate about working on the sustainability agenda forward and making efforts to further...