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Examining energy, telecoms and water regulation

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  • Session
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  • 12:22 - 12:22
  • Duration: 16 mins
  • Publication date: 12 Jun 2019
  • Location: Customer Solutions, NEC
  • Part of event Utility Week 2019

About the session

The Future of Regulation

Does the current regulatory structure present any barriers to innovation? How do structures need to evolve to take into account changes in technology and business models? Who should be regulated and by whom? How do we ensure customers remain protected and have access to effective redress where necessary?

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  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • energy sector
  • power
  • regulation
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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  • Sarah Hayes

    Sarah Hayes

    National Infrastructure Commission, Project Director, Regulation

    Sarah is an economist with 20 years experience of working across infrastructure sectors in Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Sarah worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers based in London and Tanzania focused on privatisation deals from 1998-2004. She returned to London to complete a Masters in economic regulation and competition policy and then worked with Orange France Telecom Group from 2006-2010 focused on mobile regulation across Orange subsidiaries worldwide.In 2010, Sarah moved to the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean to set up a framework for economic regulation of the telecommunications sector and once that was established she returned to the UK to work for the National Infrastructure Commission in late 2016. She led the study which published the report, “Data for the public good” promoting the benefits of sharing data and setting out the vision for a national digital twin. She is currently leading the NIC study on regulation looking at the need for regulatory change across telecoms, energy and water.
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