Gareth Price, Global Co-Head Energy, Allen & Overy

Chairman’s opening remarks - David Smith, Chief Executive, Energy Networks Association

9.05 KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Delivering the UK’s Energy Transition Charles Hendry, Minister of State for Energy

Future Energy Pathways

Market reform is the key development for energy in 2012, both setting out the market for a significant period ahead and defining government responses to the challenges of meeting UK Carbon Budgets. 

Delivering the Future - Strategic Choices
Tony Ward, Lead Partner Power & Utility, Ernst & Young

How can energy companies find capital in the age of austerity?
Ian Smyth, Partner, Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
· How tight is the market for capital?
· How are utilities responding? – three strategies
· How are utilities innovating? – some examples

We are living in a new paradigm - the age of cheap, ubiquitous computing power driven by the ever-increasing adoption of smart devices operating within pervasive communication networks. The dramatic commercial effects of Moore's Law have revolutionised the financial markets and blown a rude wind through the balance sheets and supply chains of the media industry. Value chains have been decimated and new entrants have grabbed huge market share in relatively short time spans.

The energy business is already in the cross-hairs of new technology and platform vendors. The age of the enlightened and empowered prosumer is only just around the corner..but not only that. At the same time, decarbonisation of our energy supply is both vital and mandated. Oh and of course, very expensive. Perhaps too expensive? Substantial network development is required to decrease the carbon intensity of our energy generation and to effectively integrate our planned amount of intermittent renewable sources. Managing our new sources of energy with dynamic integration of flexible consumption and storage presents significant challenges - but also huge opportunities for those players who can create a lucid trajectory for the new energy customer. As both of these imperatives collide, Virtual Power Plants and Demand Response are rapidly becoming the mantras of the 'new energy' community

How will network owners, generators, regulators and disruptive market entrants work together to develop, adapt and deliver the utility business model to make our 21st century energy system work?

This session will be introduced and moderated by Andrew Melchior, Lead Technologist Energy Generation & Supply within the Technology Strategy Board. Participants will be invited to discuss the potential impacts of disruptive innovation on future low carbon energy generation, supply and consumption.

• Paul Bircham, Customer Strategy & Regulation Director, Electricity North West
• Mark Mathieson, Managing Director, Networks, Scottish & Southern Energy
• Colin Sausman, Partner, Smarter Markets, Ofgem
• Richard Smith, Future Transmission Networks Manager, National Grid
• Jon Bentley, Smart Energy Leader, Partner, IBM
• James Pace, Senior Director, Silver Spring Networks
• Nandini Basuthakur, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA, Opower
• Colin Calder, CEO, PassivSystems
• Simon Daniel, CEO, Moixa Energy
• Basil Scarsella, CEO, UK Power Networks
• Pilgrim Beart, Director and Co-Founder, AlertMe

Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan, former Chairman, Trade & Industry Select Committee

The new energy landscape that was envisaged 12 months ago has not developed as expected with abrupt changes to policy undermining long term business plans and risking damage to investment in future projects.

In this session we reflect on the experiences of the past year, examining the widening gap between policy developments and industry momentum, and how we can continue to deliver the low carbon solutions upon which EMR depends.

Introduced and chaired by Bill Easton, Director, Ernst & Young

Policy and political uncertainty - the impact on industry players 
• Lord O’Neill of Clackmannan, former Chairman, Trade & Industry Select Committee
• The historical perspective
• Learning for today’s issues, such as Solar support and Green Deal

Policy risk - a lawyer's view

• Gareth Price, Global Co-Head Energy, Allen & Overy

• What does policy risk mean?
• Is it more than change in law?
• How far will it go?
• Why it matters form a legal perspective?

Securing Investment in the Current Market
• Andrew Buglass, Managing Director, Head of Energy, Structured Finance, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Royal Bank of Scotland
• Review of market conditions and key drivers
• Investment prioritisation under capital constraints
• Characteristics of an attractive project

Energy Demand Reduction Whatever the Changing World of Regulation

• Matthew Gordon, Director of Government Relations, Honeywell International
• The role of energy demand reduction and how to achieve it
• The impact of delay and uncertainty in legislation
• How will consumers react to mixed messages about their energy

How to Deliver Renewable Energy against an ever Changing Policy Background

Customers’ relationships with their energy are being elevated from simply consumer to prosumer and active market participant, and as new energy propositions inevitably become more complex. How can we work together to develop their trust in the industry and help them understand the role we need them to play in the smart energy transformation?

In this session we’ll examine how we can ensure the products and services currently on offer will help them embrace their energy and see real benefits, and how these propositions need to develop to ensure we achieve our 2020 low carbon targets.

The Energy Value Chain of Tomorrow - The Impact of Multi-Directional Power Flows on Consumers
Mike Wilks, Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting
• Setting the scene - the impact of decarbonisation
• What is the economic and environmental value of "smart energy"?
• Who must participate to ensure that it works?
• The need for coordination to maximise the benefits - a workable business model?
• The future consumer - no longer passive but an equal partner in the value chain

Supplying Energy to the Consumers of Today & Tomorrow
• Sara Vaughan, Director of Regulation & Energy Policy, EON
• Providing consumer choice in a simplified market
• Understanding and responding to consumer needs
• Building partnerships with our customers

A Vision for Energy Services
• Jon Slowe, Director, Delta Energy & Environment
• How the energy services mass market will develop
• A day in the life of a ‘smartenergy.com’ customer

Creating a Fairer Alternative
• Ramsay Dunning, General Manager, Cooperative Energy
• Values
• Respecting the customer
• Trust

Can energy suppliers gain the trust of consumers?
• Jennie Driscoll, Senior Communications Manager, Which?
• Research and trust in Suppliers
• Tariffs, Pricing and Customer Service Issues
• Actions to Deliver Improvements

The Psychological Case for Smart Pricing
Dr Philip E. Lewis, CEO, VaasaETT Global Energy Think-Tank
• Findings from over 100 pilots around the world
• The importance of price volatility
• The risks and opportunities from dynamic pricing

Carbon Measurement for a New Energy Economy
Jane Burston, Low Carbon and Climate Science, National Physical Laboratory
• Work towards establishing a national Centre for Carbon Measurement
• Accelerating the development of low carbon energy solutions
• Measurement supporting the future of smart grids and smart infrastructure

Richard Postance, Partner, Head of Smart Energy UK, Ernst & Young

This session examines how technology can help address some of the key issues that need to be solved to allow utilities and customers to participate fully in developing and using low carbon energy.

Alternative Billing options to deliver low carbon solutions
Ian Campbell, Business Development Director, Ferranti & Peter Odermatt
(former CEO, District Heating Company Purmerend)
. Challenges of billing for innovative companies
. Problems with traditional billing systems
. Key issues in providing customer-centric solutions

The Role of ICT in Winning in a Low Carbon energy market
Tara McGeehan, Utilities Director, Logica
• Implications of the interconnected consumer
• Managing the date explosion
• Creating value and insight

Alternative Billing options to deliver low carbon solutions
Dirk Michiels, CEO, Ferranti & Speaker TBC, Essent
• Challenges of billing for heat, cooling and hot water 
• Problems with traditional billing systems
• Key issues in providing customer-centric solutions

Leveraging smart home technology to enable demand side response
Hayley Dunlop, Director of Smart Grid, GE Energy
• The goal of demand response
• The customer challenges
• Commercial considerations

This session describes one vision for the future which relies on engaging communities fully with their energy, whether generation, distribution or overall balancing and management.  The Isle of Wight Eco-Island Community Interest Company and some of its partners share their pioneering vision of a low carbon future.

Making sustainable changes to energy supplies and use within our community  
David Green, CEO, Eco-Island Partnership
• The smart meter / smart grid community
• Moving hearts and minds
• Whole Island Energy Solution

Accelerating Smart Grid Deployment
• Paul Brodrick, Business Development Director, Cable&Wireless Worldwide
• Working with EcoIsland to create a working smart grid
• An open communication platform for innovation and market enablement
• How different drivers can accelerate development and make the smart grid a reality

· HEMS – Enabling consumer Home Energy Management
· CEMS – Managing the Community energy balance
· uEMS – Integrating with the network for full SMART Grid enablement

Lunch at 12.45 and Refreshments at 15.30

In this workshop we will interpret the term ‘smart grid’ in a broad sense -  comprising not just an enhanced energy distribution infrastructure, but also all of the appliances and applications that will utilise or interact with it, such as home appliances, micro-generators and electric vehicles.

With so many new and complex elements, we believe that a strictly methodical centrally-planned creation of a ‘smart grid’ scenario is infeasible and we will actually see a more incremental (almost organic) development of ever-smarter grids, which will evolve continually. As we have seen in other technology-driven markets, some elements will develop as expected, others will appear as if from nowhere, and some will fall by the wayside. To help you plot a course in such uncertainty, we will explore questions such as:

• How will the smart vision develop?
• Which elements will come first?
• How will they interact with each other?
• Which organisations will play what roles in the new landscape?
• What will they need to be successful? (tools, capabilities, policy change,...)

Adjusting Energy Behaviours with Domestic and SME Customers
Amanda Williams, Emerging Technology Manager, British Gas

Commercial Imperatives around Smart Distribution Network Operation
Sarah Bell, Head of Commercial Strategy, Future Networks, UK Power Networks

The EV Value Proposition
Paul Mulvaney, Managing Director, ESB ecars

This workshop will focus on energy trading and production; a series of introductory speeches, panels and open discussion will explore experiences to date, implications for the future, responses by the energy sector, investors and consumers.

• EMR and wholesale market liquidity - cause and effect?
• European Target Model - the requirement for harmonised trading arrangements by 2014
• Case study of Market Coupling
• Implications of intermittency - can the wholesale markets cope?
• Regulatory intervention in liquidity - what can it deliver?
• Can capacity payments works in an isolated national context?
• 'Smart energy' market implications - will smart customers be treated as valuable assets?
• Will we return to a Pool, or abandon markets in favour of a 'single buyer' model?

Confirmed Speakers include : -

Bert den Ouden, CEO, APX-Endex

Clare Duffy, General Manager, ESBI

Michael Wagner, Strategy Director, UK-Europe, GDF Suez

Ulrik Stridbaek, Chief Economist, Regulatory Affairs, DONG Energy

Jeremy Nicholson, Director, Energy Intensive Users’ Group

David Handley, Energy Economics and Policy Manager, RES Group

William Webster, Head of European Power Market Design, RWE Supply & Trading GMBH
Ramsay Dunning, General Manager, Cooperative Energy
Simon Less, Head of Environment & Energy Unit, Policy Exchange
Amanda Williams, Emerging Technology Manager - British Gas
Sarah Bell, Head of Commercial Strategy, Future Networks, UK Power Networks
Gunnar Lundberg Vice President, Vattenfall, Chair of EURELECTRIC Markets Committee
Ravi Baga, Head of Energy Policy, EDF Energy

Further speakers to be confirmed

This workshop will consider the full range of issues around the practical delivery of the Green Deal. There will be input from the investment community, bodies representing consumers, local authorities, energy retailers as well as organisations providing support services for the Green Deal.

A series of introductory speeches, panels and open discussion will explore experiences to date, implications for the future, responses by the energy sector, investors and consumers.

• Attracting private sector investment and low cost finance
• Engaging consumers in the public and private sector
• Supporting SME’s and creating local employment
• Optimizing supply chain to reduce retrofit costs

Presentations from:

Rules of Engagement
Jonathan Harley, Principal Consultant, Gemserv
• Standards and Green Deal Rules

Consumer engagement
John Spear, Director, Energy Performance Index
• Providing a joined up approach for the Customer

Integrating the GD Assessors and Providers
Vic Harrison, Chairman, ECMK
• Linking finance, the survey and installation activity

Green Deal Finance
Paul Davies, Partner, PWC
• Providing the lowest cost of finance for green deals

Supply chain within the Green Deal
Adam Franklin, MD, DHL Supply Chain
• Key considerations within the supply chain to make the GD a success

The Role of the Community Energy Organisation
Nigel Farren, CEO, Energise Barnet
• The role of community groups to engage consumers and generate demand

The Role of the Energy Company
Angus Wilby, Head of Energy Services, EDF Energy Services
• Our thoughts on being a GD Assessor and GD Provider

The Role of the Local Authority
Justine Prain on behalf of the Energy Saving Trust and Jess Sherlock, Policy & Projects, Manager Carbon Management & Sustainability at Haringey Council
• Local Authority experience in setting up and generating consumer demand

Role of the Manufacturer
Gary Johnson, Kingspan

Feedback on Green Deal trials
Siobanne Brewster, Senior Strategic, Development Manager, Carillion Energy Services

This workshop will consider the impact that the Smart Metering Implementation Programme will have on industry from multiple perspectives. This will include not only looking at the key challenges and changes as the Smart Metering Implementation Programme moves into procurement and ‘foundation’ stage, but also the future impact, as industry moves into ‘enduring’ and finally BAU and beyond. The workshop will offer perspectives from key stakeholders with interest in both benefits and outputs of the programme including DNOs, new UK suppliers, non-UK suppliers, industry analysts and the media.

Specific topics will include:
•The impact of the SMIP on suppliers and across the supply chain – foundation, enduring, BAU and beyond
• Learning from outside of the UK
•DNOs and smart meter data – the value, the impact and the scope of accessing the data from the DCC
•SMIP and the future Smart Grid
•IHDs versus apps as a means to consumer engagement

Speakers:
John Peters, Managing Director, Engage Consulting
Pilgrim Beart, Director and Co-Founder, AlertMe
Ian Rose, Group Sales Director, BGlobal
Michael Mackey, Head of Engineering, ESBI
Jim Meadows, Smart Metering Program Director, PG&E,
Chris Welby, Policy & Regulatory Affairs Director, Good Energy
Adam Westbrooke, Principal Consultant, ScaledInsight
Stuart Ravens, Senior Analyst, Ovum

This workshop will examine the practical delivery of community energy schemes as part of delivering the green agenda.  Case studies, panel discussions and feedback from workshop participants will clarify lessons from experience, develop solutions to practical problems in implementing community energy schemes, and identify evolutionary pathways in the context of carbon strategies.

Issues to be examined include:
· Business models and implications for procurement
· Retrofitting a community energy scheme
· Pricing principles
· The role of RHI
· Fuel supply issues, including green gas
· The regulatory framework for community energy
· Retailing electricity as well as heat
· Funding issues
· City-wide schemes

The Panel will include : -

ESCo business models – Jeremy Bungey, E.ON

Jeremy, who heads E.on’s community energy business, explains what an ESCo can do and how these services can be procured.

City-wide district heating schemes – Richard Knights, Arup

There is a growing interest in local government in the contribution that district heating on a large scale can make to reducing carbon emissions in inner city areas, but few examples of successful schemes. Richard Knights explains the technical and commercial differences between development-scale and city-wide schemes, and how to tackle the public realm issues that they raise.

Regulation of community energy schemes – Tom Bainbridge, Nabarro

The absence of statutory regulation of district heating in this country makes the delivery of schemes more complex and expensive. Tom Bainbridge provides an overview of the key regulatory issues and a guide to the best options for dealing with them.

Getting to zero carbon – Bruce Laidlaw, Chiltern Management

What difference does the Renewable Heat Incentive make to the economics of community energy? What are the practical options for getting to zero carbon energy generation? Bruce explains how the RHI works and suggests strategies for the evolution of community energy schemes towards zero carbon.

The role of local authorities in promoting community energy schemes – Speaker to be confirmed

Local authorities can play a critical role in encouraging community energy schemes – as sponsor, supervisor, customer and funder as well as planning authority. We will examine what works and what does not.

Further speakers to be confirmed