SPEAKERS CONFIRMED FOR 2021

Sam is a Technical Specialist in the Energy Systems & Infrastructure team at Cenex and an expert in Electric Vehicle charging hardware and innovative technology such as wireless charging systems.

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...

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 ...

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.  

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 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...

James Armstrong is a founder of the Investment Adviser and is one of the three managing partners. James has been involved in over 1.3 billion of UK and European energy transactions and over 570 million portfolio third-party financing at and prior to founding Bluefield. He led the IPO of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

?At Clean Horizon, Corentin is the head of market analysis activities, thus overseeing one of the two business units in the company. As such, he acts as project manager on key market analysis projects,?thus?overseeing the regulations and evolutions of the storage markets across Europe. In parallel...

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...

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...

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...

Aaron Berry is Deputy Head of the Office for Zero Emission Vehicles (OZEV) at the UK Department for Transport.  OZEV work to support the UK’s objective to transition to zero emission vehicles. Aaron leads teams responsible for regulation and incentive schemes that support the roll-out of...

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 ...

Aimee is Energy Strategy Lead at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. She is responsible for coordinating policies across multiple sectors to ensure we meet our ambitious net zero target, most recently she coordinated delivery of the Energy White Paper. Previously she was...

Wayne Bexton is the Director of Carbon Reduction, Energy and Sustainability 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

Jez Climas is the Head of Renewable Heat at Midsummer - he joined Midsummer, and indeed the renewables industry, at the start of 2021 after 14 years as an MEP Consultant with a bias toward heating and energy design.  Since starting to work in renewable energy he's been amazed by the speed of...

Paul Cole is co-founder of powerQuad, an award winning energy storage solution for space constrained businesses looking to decarbonise. A chartered engineer and Institute of Directors member, Paul is driven by engineering innovative technology for new markets, bringing sustainable advantages to...

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...

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 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...

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 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 ...

Simon Coulson – Director & Co-founder Aura Power Developments Ltd  8+ years renewables experienceVice President, Morgan StanleyMSc Computer Science, Imperial College London

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Frank is the Policy Director at REA with expertise in energy storage, grid networks and large scale renewable power. Frank has a background in energy and climate change policy in UK central Government and the non-Governmental sector. Frank has co-authored a number of reports on renewable energy and ...

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...

Amit Gudka is an entrepreneur on a mission to make the transition to renewable energy happen. He co-founded Bulb, now one of the UK’s biggest green energy suppliers, making it easy and affordable for people to get green energy in their homes. He's now founded Field to finance, build and operate ...

Ben has been Managing Director and Head of the Gresham House New Energy division since November 2017. He is also the Fund Manager of Gresham House Energy Storage Fund plc and Fund Manager for the British Strategic Investment Fund (BSIF) strategy. Ben started his fund management career at Lazard...

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...

Dr Richard Hall leads Energy Transition?s work in Solar Governance. Richard currently Chairs the Solar Trade Association (STA) Solar Heat Working Group and represents the UK in the International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Technology Collaboration Programme (TCP).

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...

Robert Harley is Director of the ISO 9001,14001 & 45001 accredited Helios Solar Operations & Maintenance. Helios have been driving the development of the new Joint Code of Practice between the UK Solar & Insurance industries and were the key driver behind the development of Solar Energy ...

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...

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.

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.

Ruth heads up the Strategy and Development team at LCCC. She has oversight of the company's Communications and Stakeholder Management, the relationship with the Shareholder (BEIS) and engagement on emerging government policy, as well as leading work on the strategic direction of the...

Mike has spent 35 years in the telecommunications industry, from his first role as an engineer in his native New Zealand to senior leadership positions in Europe where he has managed operations and infrastructure for data centres. In a former CTO role, Mike led a team which developed Technology...

George Hilton is an Energy Storage Senior Analyst with the Climate and Sustainability team at IHS Markit. Dr. Hilton joined IHS Markit in 2020 and has six years of experience in the clean energy sector. His area of focus is the European energy storage market, with a particular interest in energy...

As Director of Low Carbon at The Growth Company, Chair of Electricity North West?s Sustainability Panel and a member of their Customer Engagement Group which scrutinises their next investment plan.  Todd is a key member of the GM?s Low Carbon network, which spearheads and promotes low-carbon...

'Creating a solar nation, one house at a time'. ( www.solar-power.co.uk )

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. 

Steven has worked in the renewable energy sector since 1997, in design, construction and operational roles. He currently heads Foresight’s portfolio team, responsible for a diverse fleet of renewable energy infrastructure, including wind, solar and bioenergy projects. He joined Foresight in 2020...

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...

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...

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...

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. ? ...

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...

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...

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.  

Peter founded Harmony Energy in 2010 having spent ten years in finance. He has over 12 years? experience in the renewable energy sector, in financing and development. Harmony Energy, builds, owns and operates renewable energy assets across the UK. Peter is also a Director of Jones Food...

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...

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...

Jon has led the growth of the E.ON Solar & Storage business from 2018 to 2020, and is now leading and developing the E.ON team to deliver the UK Government?s Green Homes Grant ?Local Authority Delivery? schemes.  Jon has 13 years experience at E.ON across a broad range of roles, with a focus on ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Ian is founder and CEO of Trojan Energy.  Prior to Trojan Energy Ian worked in Oil and Gas for an Energy Major and leading 100+ person engineering teams and delivering projects worth over £300m.  Today Ian leads Trojan and is committed to helping everyone to benefit from the energy transition.

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...

Dr. Pavel Mardilovich is a senior scientist at Enerox GmbH. There he is focusing on the question of state of health measurement and correction strategies in vanadium flow batteries. Before joining Enerox, he worked as a research engineer at VolStorage GmbH, and prior to that he was the co-founder...

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...

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...

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...

Justin has worked in the fire industry for nearly 30 years in a variety of commercial and sales management roles. For over 20 years, he has specialised in early warning technologies, such as VESDA, and most recently has focused on Li-ion Tamer – THE solution for off-gas detection. He also has a...

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...

Rachel advocates for an energy transition in which people are informed, protected and supported as they navigate new services and ways of using energy. Using Citizens Advice's unique insight as the statutory advocate for energy consumers, Rachel unpacks the problems people face when they charge ...

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...

Alastair is a Regional Sales Manager responsible for JA Solar activities across UK, Italy, Ireland and France regions. He has worked between London and Shanghai at JA Solar for over 10 years and has managed Utility, commercial and Distribution customers.

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...

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...

As founder and Managing Director of Quintas Energy since 2008, Declan has been at the forefront of the solar asset management sector in Spain, Italy, the UK, Ireland and Australia. Quintas also provides technical advisory, data and development services.

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...

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...

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...

Adrian Parker is the Technology Programme Manager for myenergi , the award winning UK company that designs, develops and manufactures products and services which enable customers to increase self-consumption of green energy.  After an early career in manufacturing, he joined the energy industry in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Liam is a consultant member of the National Register of Access Consultants (NRAC) with over 30 years’ experience of working in Inclusive Design and Access.He is a Director of Proudlock Associates, a well-established inclusive design and access consultancy, now in its fifteenth year.  He has worked...

Professor Keith Pullen specialises in research and development of low carbon technologies for transport and ground power. He is CTO of Levistor, commercialising the flywheel technology initially developed at City University of London. This developed has also been supported by Innovate UK, Highways...

Dr Jonathan Radcliffe is a Reader in Energy Systems and Innovation, and leads the Resilient Cities theme for the university?s Institute for Global Innovation. His research focuses on policy and techno-economic analysis of energy systems, with particular emphasis on the integration of new...

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...

Faye has worked in the energy industry for over a decade; in information technology, gas transmission, gas system operator, and most recently in the electricity system operator. Her current role is developing ancillary services, with a focus on reforming frequency response services. Recently Faye...

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...

Leah is a co-Director of whole house renewables company Your Energy Your Way.  She has an 8 year track record in the successful installation of renewable energy solutions including ground source and air source heat pumps, solar PV, solar thermal, EV chargers and batteries.  Building on the...

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...

Steve Saunders is the Global Energy Storage network leader and a Director at Arup - an international multidisciplinary consulting firm. Professionally, Steve is a Chartered Electrical Engineer with a deep interest in energy, water, infrastructure and sustainability. He has over 30 years of...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Greg has an Electrical Engineering background and has worked in the energy and communications sector for over a decade, bringing the UK, Europe, and Africa closer to carbon neutrality panel by panel. Having worked for Solarcentury and SSEN, in 2019 he joined JBM where he heads the technical...

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...

Paul is an Executive Director of EnAppSys.  Paul is a chartered engineer and has held senior posts in asset management and development with Enron, and px limited (a manager of energy assets).  Paul’s career started in asset management but for the last 15 years his roles have been predominantly in...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Listing energy policy as her number one passion, Marzia entered the industry following the Californian energy crisis of 2000/01, which led to rolling blackouts, affecting thousands of small businesses. She went on to become a policy advisor at California?s energy regulator in San Francisco where...