LCNI Conference Welcome & Introduction Plenary Session - Peter Emery

Session
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
13:11 - 13:11
Duration: 7 mins
Publication date: 24 Oct 2016
Location: NA, Manchester Central, Manchester, United Kingdom
Part of event Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference 2016

About the session

The 2016 Low Carbon Networks & Innovation Conference provides an opportunity to explore the key learnings from electricity and gas network innovation projects. The programme will provide unparalleled networking opportunities in addition to project focused presentations and workshops.

Co-hosted by Electricity North West and taking place at the iconic Manchester Central, the LCNI Conference will be held on 11-13 October 2016. The conference and exhibition will be the UK's must-attend electricity and gas network innovation event for 2016.

Keywords:: Manchester

airports

demand management

economic investment

electricity

low-carbon future

transport sytems

universities

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Speaker

Peter Emery

Electricity North West, CEO

Peter is a graduate engineer with over 30 years experience in the Energy Sector.He spent twenty years with Esso and ExxonMobil specialising in strategic planning and operational management. This included several roles in the UK and an overseas assignment in Corporate Planning with Exxon Company International, coordinating downstream investments initially in the Far East followed by Latin America and Europe. He spent ten years in leadership positions in Refining & Supply culminating in the appointment to the position of Operations Manager at Fawley Refinery, with full responsibility for the operation of the UK’s largest refinery.In 2004, he joined the Board of Drax Power Limited as Production Director, the owner of the largest power station in the UK. He was a member of the executive team to successfully IPO (Initial Public Offering) the Drax business on the London Stock Exchange in December 2005, fulfilling the business plan developed in agreement with distressed debt and private equity holders. Post flotation, Peter played a leading role in converting Drax in to a major renewable generator (including the development of biomass pelleting plants and export facilities in the USA) and was Chairman of Capture Power, the joint venture vehicle responsible for the development of the White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage Project.In 2016, he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Electricity North West Limited, the business is responsible for the electricity distribution network covering Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.In September 2012, he was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of N.G. Bailey, a privately owned major electrical and mechanical contractor with an annual turnover of £400-500m based at Denton near Ilkley, West Yorkshire.Peter has considerable Trade Association experience, initially as a Board Director of the Association of Electricity Producers (2008 - 2012) and then as chairman of the Generation Committee of Energy UK, the current UK Trade Association (2012 – 2015). He has acted as a technical consultant to the UK Government as a member of the Energy Research Partnership which provides input to the UK Government’s energy innovation agenda (2011 – 2015), and was appointed to the Sheffield University Energy 2050 Advisory board in November 2015.Peter lives in York and is married with three sons.

demand side management electricity supply industry

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