Delivering a new market structure - Q & A

Session
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
12:17 - 12:17
Duration: 17 mins
Publication date: 26 May 2016
Location: Water theatre, Hall 12, NEC, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Part of event Utility Week Live

About the session

As industry heads into the final design stages of the new business market structure this seminar will explore key stages and developments towards market opening whilst considering the implications for domestic market opening. It will bring together a range of stakeholders to explore the development of the market looking at resources, processes, skills, and IT. It will explore ways of delivering the operational capability needed to support the efficient operation of the new market

Keywords:: demand management

energy

water

water market

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Power

Speakers

Matthew Beech

Associate Insights Editor

Mathew joined Utility Week in the Summer of 2012 as a news reporter with a focus on the retail side of energy. Since then he has also reported on the water sector, before becoming Associate Insights Editor in October 2015.
Graham Southall

Thames Water Commercial Services, Commercial Director

Graham has been a Director of Thames Water Commercial Services since it was formed in 2012 and set up their Scottish retail business. He has worked for the Thames Water Group since 2008, having developed a number of projects around Waste to Energy, collection and processing of Fats Oils and Greases, extraction of Struvite from effluent and renewable energy activities. Prior to Thames Water, he has held a number of key roles working as Head of Power at BG Group, VP Optimisation with DONG (Danish Oil and Natural Gas) in Denmark and VP of European Trading in Geneva for TXU.
Ben Jeffs

MOSL, Chief Executive

Ben Jeffs is the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Market Operator Services Ltd (MOSL). Jeffs has undertaken senior leadership roles in both regulated and non-regulated businesses having spent his early career in the energy sector with British Gas, Transco and National Grid. He ran the energy Buying Solutions team for the Office of Government Commerce and held a number of senior operational roles with private companies. Ben has first-hand experience of a new entrant having been Chief Operating Officer for First Utility, an entrepreneurial on-line challenger brand in the energy supply market.
Stuart Brand

CGI, Water Sector Client Director

Stuart Brand is a Client Director in CGI’s UK Energy and Utilities Business Unit. In this role he works with new and existing clients, and helps to develop and execute CGI’s strategy for the industry. He has over 20 years of experience helping UK water companies deliver transformational change through the application of technology, including most recently leading CGI’s team to secure our role as Market Operator Services Limited’s (MOSL’s) implementation partner. In that role we are building and will operate the central market system to support the forthcoming competitive market for non-household water customers.
Ken McRae

Gemserv, Chief Operations Officer

Ken is an expert in the development, implementation and operation of central market arrangements with extensive experience of policy development, market design, change management, legal frameworks and business change.Ken has worked with Government Departments and Regulators on a number of key initiatives including the Green Deal, the implementation of the Electricity Central Online Enquiry Service (ECOES), introduction of Metering competition, establishment of new Industry codes, development of new governance arrangements including the Master Registration Agreement, Distribution Code Use of System Agreement and the development and implementation of the central market arrangements for the Scottish Water Market.

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