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21st Century Fit

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019
  • 10:21 - 10:21
  • Duration: 39 mins
  • Publication date: 07 Jun 2019
  • Location: Keynote, NEC
  • Part of event Utility Week 2019

About the session

Panel debate: New business models

What does a utility fit for the 21st century look like? This session will address questions around how the utilities are changing and adopting new business models in order to ensure their survival and set the foundations for them to flourish. It will ask how utilities can transition from their 19th century roots and institutionalised in the old way of thinking, to a more dynamic and flexible business.

Keywords:
  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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Speakers

  • Bjoern Reinke

    Bjoern Reinke

    Drax, Director of smart

    Bjoern pioneered SMETS1 Smart Metering for one of the Big 6 energy companies and has over 13 years’ experience in the energy sector. Now at Drax, Bjoern is responsible for making the Smart Metering Upgrade project a success for existing and future Drax customers. This incorporates the Systems of Intelligence Programme, which includes data science pilots and automated self-serve reporting at Drax Retail. Accreditations include, MSc Environmental Engineering, MSc Business Management, and Six Sigma Master Black Belt.
  • James Johnston

    James Johnston

    Piclo, Chief Executive and Co-Founder

    James Johnston is the CEO and Co-founder of Piclo, the UK’s leading online marketplace for DSO flexibility trading. 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 engineer at international engineering consultancy Arup. James is a published author contributing chapters to Academic Press books on peer-to-peer energy trading and DSO flexibility trading.
  • Jonathan Ainley

    Jonathan Ainley

    Kiwi Power, UK Programme Manager

  • Sarah Merrick

    Sarah Merrick

    Ripple Energy, Chief Executive

    Sarah set up Ripple to make clean energy ownership affordable and accessible for everyone. Ripple is a clean energy ownership platform which will enable household consumers to collectively own large scale clean energy assets (initially new subsidy free wind farms) and have the low cost electricity they produce supplied to their homes.Sarah has worked in the wind energy sector for 18 years. Prior to setting up Ripple she was vice chair of RenewableUK and chaired its Markets and Regulation Strategy Group. She was also Head of Public Affairs for Vestas. Her background is in policy and regulation and communications.
  • Robert  Llewellyn

    Robert Llewellyn

    EV Agenda-Setter and Fully charged Founder

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