21 September
Registration, networking and exhibition
THE ENERGY SECTOR LANDSCAPE: REGULATION, INNOVATION & ASSET INVESTMENT
A world first for transmission: National Grid’s power flow control valves to enhance network performance
- Pushing the boundaries of innovation in network asset performance with power flow valves
- The ability of current asset health and performance data to support true innovation
Speaker
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Stewart Whyte
Director network strategy and operations - National Grid
Ofgem’s role in enabling low carbon infrastructure investment
- How Ofgem’s Low Carbon Infrastructure Strategic Change Programme (LCI SCP) is supporting the energy industry’s transition to net zero
- Change programmes announced by Ofgem in its Forward Work Programme to enable investment in low carbon infrastructure at a fair price
Speaker
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Vlada Kolosyuk
Senior manager, network price controls - Ofgem (Virtual participation)
The revolution of the energy sector landscape
- Recommendations for using data more effectively in the energy system
- Learnings from rapid advances in tech and the emergence of new business models
- Transforming the UK energy system to reach our clean growth ambitions
Speaker
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Laura Sandys CBE
Chair - Energy Systems Data Taskforce (Virtual participation)
Panel discussion and questions: UK energy infrastructure that is fit for the future
- Decarbonising assets now against tough regulatory pressures and uncertain futures
- The need for fresh thinking and innovation to reduce footprint and visual impact of new assets
- Pathways towards net zero: short-term asset decisions to meet long-term goals
- Quantifying embodied carbon and accounting for the carbon impacts on a rapidly digitalising asset base
- Meeting RIIO and NIA/NIC performance requirements
Speakers
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Stewart Whyte
Director network strategy and operations - National Grid -
Vlada Kolosyuk
Senior manager, network price controls - Ofgem (Virtual participation) -
Scott Mathieson
Director of network planning and regulation - SP Energy Networks (Virtual participation) -
Sarah Williams
Director of regulation and asset strategy - Wales & West Utilities -
Eliane Algaard
Operations director - SSE (Virtual participation) -
Chris Train
UK’s Green Gas Champion
Onsite refreshments, networking and exhibition OR digital speed networking and time to visit on-line booths
DATA-DRIVEN ASSET MANAGEMENT: OPTIMISING PERFORMANCE & MITIGATING RISK
Data interoperability and the net zero transition of assets
- How to remove data silos and ensure accuracy and standardisation
- The importance of data exchange between distribution system operators and transmission operators for net zero transition of assets
Speaker
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Eric Brown
Chief technology officer - Energy Systems Catapult
New ERA for ESG decision analytics
- Re-define your value framework to align with your businesses evolving Financial, Environmental, Social and Governance drivers
- Understand the potential impact of climate change on your asset portfolios
- Continually optimize asset investment decisions in the face of the energy transition, increasing pressure to reduce GHG emissions, and increasing extreme weather events
Speaker
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John Harvey
Senior Consultant - Copperleaf
Open energy: what shared data means for energy networks
- What can we learn from open banking and other sectors and industries where digitalisation has unlocked innovation?
- What to expect from open energy: managing risk and threats to assets
- How data helps manage climate risk and makes net zero assets possible
Speaker
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Gavin Starks
Founder - Icebreaker One (Virtual participation)
Questions and answers
Roundtable discussions: Tackling the open energy data challenge
A chance to get together with peers to solve the open energy data challenge, including:
- What type of data should be made open what are the associated risks?
- How can we manage the risks and threats associated with open data?
- How to overcome cultural challenges with open data in risk adverse industries?
- What can be done to establish common standards to facilitate interoperability of data
Speakers
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Matt Webb
Head of enterprise data - UK Power Networks -
Gavin Starks
Founder - Icebreaker One (Virtual participation) -
Eric Brown
Chief technology officer - Energy Systems Catapult -
John Harvey
Senior Consultant - Copperleaf
Lunch, networking and exhibition
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Choose to attend either:
- IMPROVING PERFORMANCE & FUTURE-PROOFING ASSETS – ELECTRICITY
- IMPROVING PERFORMANCE & FUTURE-PROOFING ASSETS – GAS
GAS
Chaired by: Oliver Lancaster, CEO, IGEM
Decarbonising Irish Gas Assets (in Scotland)
- The scale of Republic of Ireland’s gas demand being transported through interconnectors from Scotland
- How GNI meets the N-1 Security of Supply review when considered as a collective with the UK gas market
- Assessing the technical routes to decarbonisation and the design of a multifaceted solution for the Scottish assets
Bobby Gleeson, Head of asset management, Gas Networks Ireland (virtual participation)
No silver bullets: How the gas industry is rising to the net zero challenge
- A future role for the gas networks
- SGN’s suite of innovation projects that will help make hydrogen the backbone of the UK’s future gas network
- Are we ready? How to safely re-purpose our networks for hydrogen
Andrew Musgrave, Head of engineering & network strategy, SGN
Assets for the future: making investment decisions in a shifting landscape
- Cadent green print – future heat for everyone
- How this is impacting our thinking on investment decision making today
- The regulatory frameworks required to deliver net zero
Dave Moon, Director of treasury and asset investment, Cadent
ELECTRICITY
Chaired by: Chris Train, UK's Green Gas Champion
Enabling local flexibility markets to enable net zero
- DSO transition and role of flexibility
- Flexibility landscape in GB
- ENA’s Open Networks project and key contributions to the development of local markets for flexibility
Dr Avi Aithal, Technical lead, open networks, Energy Networks Association
Analytics & Insights: How to get the business to use them
- The business of analytics is change, and change is about people
- UK Power Network’s Head of analytics will outline their 3-week sprint style analytics method and the associated success and ROI they’ve had to date (34:1)
Alex Mahon, Head of analytics, UK Power Networks
Paris to Perth: decarbonising the north of Scotland transmission network on the net zero pathway
- Adopting a Science Based Target to reduce our business greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1, 2 and 3)
- “Greener Grid” technology investments to reduce the use of SF6 gas in our substations
Matthew Barnett, Electrical Plant Subject Matter expert, SSEN
3:15 pm
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
DRIVING INNOVATION TO BUILD RESILIENCE & REACH CLEAN GROWTH AMBITIONS
A framework for climate adaptation and the electricity distribution network
- Understanding the impact of weather on the ENW distribution network to support operational forecasting
- Climate projections and future risk to distribution infrastructure
- How can infrastructure owners and operators be resilient to changes in climate and identify vulnerability and risk to assets
Speakers
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Dr Emma Ferranti
Senior Lecturer in Engineering - University of Birmingham -
Daniel Donaldson
Postgraduate researcher - University of Birmingham