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Energy UK Annual Conference 2024 Programme

Tuesday 17 September 2024

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09.30 – 10.00

Coffee and registration

10.00 – 10.05

Compères’ welcome address

Ed Rees, Senior Policy Manager, Energy UK and Ellie Rowlands, Stakeholder Relationship Executive and YEP Forum Representative, Energy UK


10.05 – 10.15

Welcome Speech

Emma Pinchbeck, CEO, Energy UK


10.15 – 10.45

Keynote Speech

The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero


10.45 – 10.55

Headline Sponsor Speech

Keith Anderson, Chief Executive, ScottishPower


10.55 – 11.40

Panel Discussion 1: People

Maintaining public support through the next decade

This panel will discuss the challenges and solutions to maintaining public support through a transformational decade. The discussion will take a whole-system view as customers get to grips with a changing energy system, from new technologies and flexible tariffs through to local development – we will look at how industry and government will need to work together to engage the public and create positive momentum. 

Speakers:

  • Matt Cole, Head of Fuel Bank Foundation (Chair)
  • Mary Starks, VP Policy, Regulation and Risk, OVO
  • Helen Seagrave, Chair of Community Energy England and Community energy manager, Electricity North West
  • Simon Oscroft, CEO and Co-Founder, SO Energy
  • Anita Boateng, Partner, Portland Communications
11.40 – 12.00

Coffee and networking break

12.00 – 12.15

Keynote Speech

Rt Hon Claire Coutinho MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero


12.15 – 13.00

Panel Discussion 2: Power

The panel will consider how we can unleash the UK’s clean energy potential in an era of evolving markets, investment challenges and connection queues.  

As the UK embarks on the most significant electricity market reforms in a decade, our panellists will discuss the challenges of attracting increased investment, examine the diverging perspectives on market reforms, and consider how connections reform and innovation can create opportunities that foster broader economic growth.  

Speakers:

  • Marguerite Sayers, Deputy Chief Executive, ESB
  • Sam Richards, Campaign Director and CEO, Britain Remade
  • Mike Lockett, UK Country Chair, Uniper
  • Sam Hollister, Head of Energy Economics, Policy, and Investment, LCP Delta
13.00 – 14.10

Networking and lunch break

14.10 – 14.30
Emma Pinchbeck in Conversation with Alice Delahunty, National Grid

Speakers:

  • Emma Pinchbeck, CEO, Energy UK
  • Alice Delahunty, President, Electricity Transmission, National Grid

14.30 – 15.15

Panel Discussion 3: Prosperity

The Prosperity panel will consider how the UK can reap the economic rewards of a globally leading energy sector. The discussion will focus on how the UK can continue to attract private capital in line with the investment needed to reach Net Zero; the implications for what this investment will mean in terms of economic prosperity, how it will foster innovative domestic industries that place the UK at the leading edge of the energy transition, and what it will mean for communities across the country that can benefit from regional jobs, skills, and growth.  

Speakers:

  • Craig Hoggett, Partner, Newton (Chair)
  • Julia Pyke FEI, HonFNucl, Joint Managing Director, Sizewell C
  • Aveek Bhattacharya, Research Director, Social Market Foundation
  • Alice Barrs, Head of Corporate Affairs, RWE

15.15 – 15.30

Keynote Speech

Fintan Slye, Director, ESO


15.30 – 15.50

Keynote Speech and Conversation

Jonathan Brearley, CEO, Ofgem


15.50 – 16.00

Closing Remarks:

Rt Hon. David Laws, Chair, Energy UK

16.00 – 17.00

Networking drinks reception