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Future energy models and the 'prosumer' - Q&A Session

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  • Session
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 11 mins
  • Publication date: 13 Jun 2019
  • Location: Customer Solutions, NEC
  • Part of event Utility Week 2019

About the session

Customers’ relationship with the energy they consume is changing. The old top-down models of distribution are disappearing, and many customers are taking a more active role in generating and storing their own energy. Community energy companies and models are on the rise. What does this mean for the UK’s energy market, and how do traditional retailers need to adapt in response?

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  • climate change
  • customers
  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • energy
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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    Denise Chevin

    Acting Content Director, Utility Week

    Denise Chevin is acting content director of Utility Week and has been instrumental in launching its new technology and innovation title, Flex. She has 25 years’ experience as a business journalist, editor and commentator and policy adviser. Her roles have included editing Building Magazine and before that the social housing magazine, Housing Today. Denise embarked on a career as a freelance writer and consultant in the built environment in 2010 and became a research fellow of the Smith Institute producing a number of reports covering a variety of topics including procurement. She has also authored six parliamentary reports including No More Lost Generations (looking at youth unemployment) and edited Infrastuctureintelligence.com
  • Cllr Kye Dudd

    Cllr Kye Dudd

    Bristol City Council, Cabinet Member for Energy and Transport

    Kye was elected ward councillor for Central Bristol in May 2016 and was appointed by Mayor Marvin Rees to the Cabinet in December 2017 to lead on Waste, Energy and Regulatory Services. Following a Cabinet reshuffle in January 2019, he was appointed to the Transport and Energy brief.Kye has over 14 years of experience as a Trade Union Official in Royal Mail dealing with issues and negotiations at local levels in Bristol and also on a National level as a former member of the Communication Workers Union National Executive Committee.Kye is also a member of the Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District and alongside his transport responsibility is tasked with leading on the delivery of the City Leap Energy Partnership Programme which is looking to decarbonise and deliver large scale investment into the city’s energy infrastructure.
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    Patrick Allcorn

    BEIS, Head of Local Energy

  • Rob Saunders

    Rob Saunders

    Innovate UK, Head of Energy

    Rob Saunders is interim director for the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund programme, ‘Prospering from the Energy Revolution’. Over the coming four years, this aims to prove the future business models and local approaches that will put consumers at the heart of a cleaner, cheaper and more resilient energy system.A Cambridge engineering graduate, Rob started his career in innovation in the food and packaging industries when leading major R&D programmes for Crown Packaging and Pepsico. He retrained in 2010, graduating from the Imperial College Masters programme in Environmental Technology & Energy Policy and led analysis for UK Energy Research Centre bioenergy projects before joining Innovate UK in 2011 as lead for offshore renewable energy.Rob led the energy programme at Innovate UK for four years, helping UK businesses to grow as they develop new products that address solutions to affordable, clean and secure energy systems of the future. During that time Innovate UK supported hundreds of UK businesses, developed and launched the energy catalyst programme and set up two energy-focussed catapult centres; Offshore Renewable Energy in Glasgow & Blyth, and Energy Systems in Birmingham. He now leads the energy revolution programme for UK Research and Innovation.
  • Ben Gately

    Ben Gately

    Social Energy, Commercial Director

    Ben has 10 years' experience in Utilities and Energy Trading. He’s highly experienced at leading technical transformation in Utilities; providing leading edge commercial and trading solutions to maximise business growth and profitability.Having led the commercial trading team at Ecotricity, Ben joined Social Energy in January this year to create, build, and develop the commercial, trading and compliance function from scratch. At Social Energy the team are focussed on launching a revolutionary digital energy service that gives customers the power to become their own mini utility – Ben’s work alongside the Social Energy technical team will help to put the power back into customers hands, giving them the ability to store, trade and earn from their energy.
  • Victoria Clarke

    Victoria Clarke

    Head of Customer Experience

    Victoria recently joined Social Energy as the Head of Customer Experience, bringing a wealth of experience from a career working in customer experience and delivering digital transformation.In her more recent career, Victoria has been leading Customer Experience transformations in challenger and disrupter brands, including Super Dry. As head of CX, Victoria is all about the customer and designing sustainable process and technical solutions to meet and exceed their ever-changing needs.With a focus on building and leading high-performance teams to deliver exceptional customer experience, Victoria will be a critical member of the Social Energy team.
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    Clive Hammett

    FICO, Optimization Energy & Utilities Practice Lead, EMEA

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