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The energy revolution - a community approach to energy

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  • Session
  • Wednesday, 22 May 2019
  • 15:22 - 15:22
  • Duration: 17 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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  • cyber security
  • digital
  • electricity
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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  • 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.
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