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The future of the supplier hub - do market rules need reform?

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  • Session
  • Tuesday, 21 May 2019
  • 11:45
  • Duration: 18 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 market
  • low carbon
  • power
  • smart infrastructure
  • smart meter
  • utilities

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  • Neil Barnes

    Neil Barnes

    Ofgem, Deputy Director, Future Retail Markets

    Neil Barnes is Deputy Director, Future Retail Markets. He is responsible for future retail market design – exploring how the current ‘supplier hub’ market model might need to change to be fit for purpose as the market evolves.Neil has worked at Ofgem for over ten years. He previously established Ofgem’s behavioural insight unit and oversaw the first large-scale trials to identify ways to prompt greater consumer engagement in the retail energy market. Prior to that, he was responsible for the monitoring of GB retail energy markets and overseeing Ofgem’s move to rely more on principles in the way it regulates energy suppliers.Prior to joining Ofgem in 2008, Neil worked for ten years at HM Treasury as a senior economic adviser. He worked on a range of policy areas including competition, energy and financial services. During this period, he also spent time on secondment to the European Commission’s Competition Directorate General.
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