Cost vs Carbon - opportunities for business and innovation in the low carbon markiet

 

Theme: Energy
Time: 15:15
Room: Auditorium

 

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The UK faces major choices about how to move to a secure, low carbon economy over the period to 2050. A successful low carbon transition requires a clear direction and early action: investors, businesses and consumers require confidence to act.

 

Should we do more to cut demand, or rely more on increasing and decarbonising the energy supply? How will we produce our electricity? Which technologies will we adopt?

 

Emerging advanced technologies offer the prospect of deeper decarbonisation, more affordably in the long term. Ofgem says the total energy investment bill will be £200bn by 2020, so how do we fill this funding hole?

 

The panel will examine proposed strategies and discuss models that might assist in meeting the projected costs for delivering the UK's 21st century energy model.

 

Hosted by Michael Wilshire Director of Analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, this panel includes:

• Martin Orrill - Head of Energy Technology and Innovation, British Gas New Energy
• Andy Stanford-Clark - IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor/CTO of Smart Energy technologies.
• Prof Graham Fairhall - National Nuclear Laboratory
• Graham Cooley - CEO ITM Power
• Ash Pocock - Head of Industry Change, Regulation and External Affairs, Smart Metering Project, Transformation, EDF Energy

Arcola Energy will be providing power for the event lighting of the panel with their Hylight Fuel Cell mobile energy pack.