Towards a zero carbon London – Heat Networks Royal Danish Embassy, Friday, 17 June 2016 09:30 to 13:00

9.30 Registration and coffee

Chair: Syed Ahmed

10.00 Welcome from Rasmus Traberg, Sector Expert, Energy, Danish Embassy

10.10 Peter North, Senior Manager, Sustainable Energy Development, Greater London Authority

10.40 Lucy Padfield, Energy Services Manager at Islington Council

11.05 Toby Heysham, MD of Pinnacle Power

11.30 Break

11.45 Rufus Ford, Business Development Manager, Heat Networks, SSE plc

12.10 Vimal Bhana, Head of Utilities at Barratt London

12.35 Crispin Matson, UK Director for Ramboll

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Departures

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Peter North, Senior Manager - Programme Delivery (Sustainable

Energy) Development & Environment Greater London Authority

Peter North holds a BSc in Engineering and an MSc in Building Services Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.

His professional career has been in the energy sector in design, development and implementation of both the private and public sector energy projects. His technology experience ranges from nuclear and fossil fuels, to combined heat and power, district heating and renewables including waste. Peter’s work has involved the commercial development of energy projects combining engineering with commercial structuring and financing.

Peter is currently a Senior Manager – Programme Delivery (Sustainable Energy), with the Greater London Authority. His main role is supporting both the public and private sector to develop and deliver larger-scale urban heat network projects. Peter is becoming increasingly involved in the research, policy development and planning of large-scale heat networks and supporting the innovative application of decentralised energy technology to heat networks.

Syed Ahmed, Independent Energy and Climate Policy

Advisor

Syed has close to 20 years working in the sustainable energy industry, in

a wide variety of roles and organisations ranging from Friends of the

Earth, the Combined Heat and Power Association, the Greater

London Authority, Arup, and DECC. Syed established Energy for

London (www.energyforlondon.org), an independent think tank

supporting London's progress to becoming a low-carbon city.

Lucy has been the manager of Islington Energy Services since 2000. Responsible for implementing complex and challenging carbon-saving delivery projects, such as decentralised energy schemes, she initiated and has overseen the development of the council’s district heating network programme, including the construction of the Bunhill Heat and Power network. A widely-respected engineer, she is frequently asked to present at industry events.

Prior to working at Islington, Lucy studied for a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University. She worked as an engineer at United Glass before gaining an MSc in European Environmental Policy and Regulation. In 1994 she joined the Energy Team in Islington, becoming manager in 2000. In 2005 she was seconded to the Greater London Assembly as their Principal Energy Policy Officer for two years, before returning to Islington.

Lucy Padfield, Energy Services Manager, LB Islington

Vimal is a chartered mechanical engineer who’s background in utilities extends over 15 years beginning in South African utility-scale coal-fired power generation. Since moving to the UK, Vimal has worked within the decentralised energy sector for installer & operators, design consultancies and DBFO organisations. In his current role as Head of Utilities at Barratt London, Vimal is responsible for providing due diligence, contractual negotiation, design & delivery reviews and escalation/trouble shooting for all utilities and services to Barratt London sites through all phases of development from land acquisition, planning, design through to delivery and occupation.

Toby has had a wide ranging career from land mine clearance to finance at the Bank of New York Mellon. At the Carbon Census he was head of operations. He then left to lead Pinnacle Power.

Toby has extensive experience in delivering district energy networks and has worked on projects from 100kW to 87 MW of generation plant. He focuses on working with everyone from councils to developers to power generation assets to deliver the most innovative solution possible both financially and practically.

Toby Heysham, MD Pinnacle Power

Rufus Ford works as a Business Development Manager on district heating projects for SSE Enterprise Utilities, which operates heat networks serving residential and commercial customers. Rufus has worked for SSE since 2008, previously in various policy and research roles usually with a focus on energy efficiency and low carbon heat. He has also served on the secretariat of the Energy Research Partnership and the board of Scottish Renewables, where he chaired the heat working group.

Rufus Ford, Business Development Manager, Heat

Networks, SSE plc

Vimal Bhana, Head of Energy, Barratts

Crispin is the Country Manager for Ramboll Energy UK and leads the development of renewable energy projects including generation, distribution and use throughout the UK and Ireland. He is responsible for large-scale energy masterplanning, district heating, CHP, biomass and biogas generation, solar energy, geothermal, onshore wind and energy efficiency projects. His emphasis is on technical excellence combined with energy-efficient design. In addition to his strategic role, Crispin facilitates knowledge sharing across disciplines. He also promotes strong links with overseas operations and related services in the wider Ramboll group. With over 25 years in the industry, most recently at the leading edge of the design of renewable systems in buildings, his experience covers a wide range of project types and scales. Always client-focused, his solutions respond to the particular opportunities of each project. He explores every possibility in the service of delivering long-term value in a sustainable way.

Crispin Matson, UK Director for Ramboll

Based at the Danish Embassy in London for eleven years, Rasmus is dedicated to promoting best practice from Denmark and assisting the Danish business community within the energy, environment and water sectors.

Rasmus has a thorough understanding of the local business culture with an broad network in the public and the private sector as well as a genuine interest in the local energy, environment and water market. He has extensive experience working as a local partner for Danish companies seeking to understand and benefit from the many opportunities that UK offers.

Rasmus Traberg, Sector Expert, Energy, Danish Embassy

rastra@um.dk 0207 333 0232

Ian Manders is organiser of the seminar. Ian is the UK Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Advisor at the Danish Embassy in London. Previously, he was responsible for the administration of the UK Green Deal Oversight Body and the Microgeneration Certification Scheme.

As deputy director of CHPA, Ian negotiated the industry “Big Offer” to DECC, which provided for the creation of an independent domestic heat customer protection scheme (now the Heat Trust) and standards for the industry (now the CIBSE-ADE code of practice). In return the Government would support local authority sponsorship of district heating schemes (this became the Heat Networks Development Unit, or HNDU).

Ian has also served as a front-bench local authority councillor for 14 years in a London Borough.

Ian Manders, UK policy advisor, Energy, Danish Embassy

ianman@um.dk 0207 333 0214

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