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Combined Innovation Strategy

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Event
  • Session
  • Tuesday, 22 May 2018
  • 11:22 - 11:22
  • Duration: 20 mins
  • Publication date: 04 Jun 2018
  • Location: Network Theatre, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Utility week Live 2018

About the session

The Government Industrial Strategy puts innovation and technology at its heart.  If the UK is to prosper and improve economic growth and productivity, fostering and developing innovation and innovators will be key.  Network companies are already incentivised to innovate under the current RIIO regulation, to help create smarter energy grids, reduce carbon emissions and deliver financial benefits to customers. This session will explore the gas and electricity combined innovation strategy, how technology innovators can test, demonstrate and make available their innovations, and how to make innovation business as usual.

Keywords:
  • decarbonisation
  • electricity
  • energy
  • energy storage
  • gas
  • low carbon
  • renewables
  • streetworks
  • vehicle emissions

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Power

Power

Speakers

  • Geoff Murphy

    Geoff Murphy

    SPEN, Lead engineer, commercial & innovation team

    Geoff is a European Chartered Engineer that has worked for SP Energy Networks (part of the Iberdrola Group) for >14 years. During this time Geoff has held several varied positions within the organisation. At present he is the Lead Engineer for the Commercial and Innovation Team in the Network Planning and Regulation department. In this role he is responsible for managing SP Energy Networks Innovation Strategy and overseeing a portfolio of distribution Network Innovation Allowance (NIA) projects.
  • Huw Sullivan

    Huw Sullivan

    Cadent, Innovation delivery manager

    Following joining BG Transco as a graduate trainee in 1999, I have nineteen years experience, working in a variety of roles, all within Gas Distribution.As the Innovation Delivery Manager for Cadent I have responsibility for developing and delivering new technologies into our business. This covers both our large scale Future of Gas projects such as the BioSNG plant in Swindon and our more short term innovation projects, such as improved mains replacement techniques and robotics.Prior to joining Innovation the overall theme of the majority of my roles has been project managing and implementing change in one form or another. I am a lean practitioner and use these skills in my everyday job of driving business and process performance.
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