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  • Tuesday, 23 May 2017
  • 12:23 - 12:23
  • Duration: 13 mins
  • Publication date: 14 Jun 2017
  • Location: Network Theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility Week 2017

About the session

The storage revolution

As technology advances and the cost of storage starts to become more competitive, this session will explore the implications of the storage revolution, at varying scales, for networks.

Keywords:
  • Brexit
  • batteries
  • battery
  • battery storage
  • consumers
  • decarbonisation
  • digital
  • electricity
  • industry
  • low carbon
  • natural gas
  • network
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • solar
  • utilities
  • voltage control

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    Ben Irons

    director and head of commissioned projects, Aurora Energy Re

    Ben is an Executive Director of Aurora and Head of Commissioned Projects. Prior to joining Aurora, Ben spent 6 years at McKinsey and Company in London, where he specialised in energy and sustainability. He advised a wide range of clients from multinational corporations to governments and NGOs across Europe, North America, and the Middle East. Ben then spent 3 years at Centrica Energy as Director of Strategy, playing an active part in investment planning and management of assets in power generation, oil and gas production, and LNG.Ben holds a first class honours degree in Engineering from Massey University in New Zealand, and an MPhil and DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.
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