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2009
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| 0845 | Registration | |
| 0915 | Welcome from Chair | Dominic Bowers, Chairman of CHPA |
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Plenary Keynote Speakers Yan Evans, Technical Director, Baxi Richard Coackley, Vice-President, Institution of Civil Engineers Panel Discussion |
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| 1100 | Coffee and Exhibition | |
| 1130 | Seminar
Session 1: Putting CHP to Work Delegates can choose from one of three seminar sessions considering the policy, process and practical experience of putting CHP to work in diverse markets and different situations. Read More |
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1A:
Industrial Welcome from Chair Policy Overview The procurement process and the RWE
npower - Business case for industrial CHP Case study
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Urban Welcome from Chair Policy Overview Catalysing the Market Case study: Pimlico
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| 1C:
Micro Welcome from Chair Policy Overview Bringing the Product to Market |
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| 1245 | Lunch | |
| 1345 | Seminar
Session 2: The Bigger Picture |
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Community Heating: Protecting Consumers and Investors Welcome
from Chair Regulating to Protect the Consumer Financing Case study
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2B:
Cogeneration – The Greener Renewable Technology Welcome
from Chair Heat from Waste, Making it work at Scale Renewable Energy Source Electricity
and CHP Biomass Case Study – ENERGOS |
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2C: Integrating Energy Building a 2050 Roadmap for Heat Competitive Alternatives for Urban Energy
Supply Cash from Chaos: Realising value from
a changing energy system
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| 1500 | Coffee and Exhibition | |
| 1530 | Burning Issues – the Policy Debate Chair: Ed Crooks, Energy Editor, Financial Times Greg Barker MP, Shadow Minister (Environment), Energy
and Climate Change Read Biography Closing Remarks |
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| 1645 | Conference End | |
| 1900 | Drinks Reception at Banqueting House | |
| 1945 | Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony | |
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Speakers Biographies
Graham Meeks has been the Director of the Combined Heat and Power Association since August 2007. He previously worked in the advisory team of specialist investment bank Climate Change Capital and as Head of Fuels and Heat at the Renewable Energy Association. He was Head of Policy for the CHPA between 2000 and 2003. Graham is an engineer by background and in his early career served in the Royal Engineers.
Lord Hunt is Minister of State for the Department of Energy and Climate
Change, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords.
He previously served as a Minister in the Department of Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Department
of Health, and was appointed as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Justice on 29 June 2007.
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Hunt of Kings Heath, Birmingham in the
County of West Midlands 1997.
He was educated at Leeds University.
Yan Evans is Technical Director for the Baxi Commercial Division with responsibility
for the Potterton Commercial and Andrews Water Heaters brands. He is a Chartered
Engineer registered in both the UK and Europe and a Member of Institute of
Engineering & Technology, the Energy Institute and the Chartered Institute
of Building Services Engineers. Yan has an honours degree in electromechanical
engineering and around 18 years experience of working within the power generation,
energy and building services sectors. He has experience of large gas turbine,
micro-turbine and reciprocating engine based power generation and CHP solutions
and has worked for GEC Alstom, Volvo Aero Turbines and Advantica as well as
establishing and developing Baxi Groups’ commercial CHP business in
the UK. Yan currently holds the post of Technical Director for the Baxi Commercial
Division and heads up the development of their commercial products including
renewable technology based solutions such as solar thermal and heat pumps.
Richard Coackley graduated from Glasgow University in 1975 with a First in Civil Engineering and has worked in both contracting and consulting in the UK and overseas in water, wastewater, hydropower and power disciplines.
Richard is Director of Energy Development for Scott Wilson. This includes major decommissioning and development of new work in the Nuclear Sector and renewable energy projects.
Richard was a member of Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) from 2000 to 2003 following many years of active support of the Institution. He was a non executive director of Thomas Telford Ltd for nine years, and is Vice President of ICE. In Europe, Richard is immediate Past President of the European Council of Civil Engineers.
Richard is keenly interested in the professional development of engineers of all ages. He is keen to enthuse our young in engineering and broaden the skills now required by engineers, for example project and programme management, financial management and whole life costing, to enable our profession to succeed in our ever competitive market.
Paddy was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, on 24 October 1949. He moved to Nottingham
in 1969 to undertake a degree at Nottingham University (BA 1972: MA 1978)
and has stayed in Nottingham ever since.
Before entering Parliament Paddy worked as a social worker (1972 – 1979).
From 1979 to 1983 he was Project Leader for the Church of England Children’s
Society. Paddy then became a Nottinghamshire County Councillor, Director of
Nottinghamshire Co-operative Development Agency and was also involved with
the Nottingham Development Enterprise.
Simon Hughes is Liberal Democrat Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and
Climate Change and leads the Liberal Democrat environment team.
Simon Hughes is the longest serving member of the Liberal Democrat Shadow
Cabinet and was Liberal Democrat Federal President from 2004 – 2008.
He was elected to Parliament as the youngest opposition MP in 1983 on a record
swing of 51%. Simon was re-elected for the enlarged Southwark and Bermondsey
constituency in 1983, 1987 and 1992 and re-elected for North Southwark and
Bermondsey in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
Simon stood twice for the Liberal Democrat leadership in 1999 and 2005 and
in 2004 was the Liberal Democrat candidate for London Mayor.
Isabel Dedring
Isabel Dedring is the Mayor of London's Environment Adviser and is responsible
for the full range of environmental issues including climate change mitigation
and adaptation, urban greening, low-carbon vehicles and waste. She has worked
on environment for London government, both at Transport for London and the
Greater London Authority, for the last 5 years. This included producing London's
Climate Change Action Plan, the first plan by a city to lay out detailed,
quantified policies and programmes for attaining a set of ambitious CO2 targets.
The Mayor's key environmental programmes focus on large-scale, on-the-ground
delivery; these were recently summarised in "Leading to a Greener
London." Isabel is a qualified lawyer; previous job experience includes
4 years in management consulting and several years working with environmental
NGOs and inward investors in Kazakhstan.
Ed Crooks is the Energy Editor for the Financial Times, a role he took up in 2006. He joined the FT in 1999 as economics editor, and then went on to become UK news editor. Previously he was an economics correspondent for the BBC, reporting on both television and radio. He started at the BBC as a researcher and producer and worked across several news programmes. He has also been a reporter and editor for Investors Chronicle as well as an economic analyst for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Greg was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle in his native Sussex in June 2001 and was appointed Shadow Minister for Climate Change & Environment in December, 2005. Greg accompanied David Cameron to the Arctic in March 2006, to highlight the dangers of global warming and has since been working closely on Climate Change and wider environmental policy: his policy paper "Power to the People" advocating a radical increase in the use of decentralised energy, greatly informed the Conservative Party policy paper of the same name, published in November 2007.
Greg lead the passage of the Climate Change Bill through the House of Commons in 2008 and was a key author of the Conservative Party’s ‘Low Carbon Economy’ green paper, launched in January 2009. In October 2008 he was promoted to Shadow Climate Change minister in the new Shadow Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Andy is currently Head of Regional and Local Delivery for the Energy Saving Trust having joined them in October 2008. He is working with the Energy Saving Trust’s Heads of Regions, supporting local authorities to cut carbon emissions across their areas. Prior to joining EST, Andy has held posts in central, regional and local government dealing with a range of environmental and climate change issues. Andy holds an MSc in applied meteorology and climatology from the University of Birmingham, is a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and the RSA.
Director, Business Development, Sustainability and Government Affairs
Siemens UK Energy Sector
After 10 years as Divisional Director leading Siemens’ new-build CCGT,
CHP and renewables activities in the UK, Mike moved last year to a sector-wide
role for business development, including liaison with external organizations
and government. He also takes a lead for sustainability issues across Siemens
in the UK.
Before joining Siemens, Mike was UK Sales Director for Alstom Energy, having
held a number of positions in the company for large combined cycle and CHP
plant projects.
As Head of Power Projects at Electrowatt Engineering Services he worked as
owner’s engineer on combined cycle projects in Malaysia and the Gulf
states, as well as on long term generation and transmission planning studies,
and procured and maintained gas turbine and nuclear propulsion systems for
the Royal Navy as a member of the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors in the
Ministry of Defence.
A Fellow of the IMechE and the Energy Institute, Mike is also Chairman of
the Energy Industries Council, a member of DECC’s Renewables Advisory
Board and immediate past Chairman of the Combined Heat and Power Association.
Ian Manders, Deputy Director, CHPA
Sustainable energy in spatial planning expert Ian Manders joined the Combined Heat and Power Association in 2008 and is leading the Association’s work on promoting district energy CHP and micro-CHP, and defending CHP in the emerging Codes for sustainable buildings and the Government’s Planning Policy statements.
Before CHPA from Ian was Deputy Director for ACE. Before ACE, Ian was at ECSC, where his work included writing council planning policy on renewable energy, and working with Woking Council on their district energy scheme.
Ian has been a researcher in Parliament for a leading MP on local government, and was for several years an elected councillor, where he held several front-bench posts.
Isabelle is Head of New Business for Fontenergy.
Isabelle has worked in the UK electricity and gas markets for over 12 years.
She has a BSc (Hons) Mech Eng from the University of Warwick. Her experience
spans all phases of projects in the UK, from negotiating contracts for Greenfield
power generation projects through to holding responsibility for licenses and
their compliance.
Isabelle initially started her career at Powergen where she held a variety
of commercial roles. She then moved to NERA Economic Consulting in 2001, working
with a wide variety of industry players. In 2005, she founded Equilibrium
Energy Consulting. Isabelle has been working with Fontenergy since 2007.
Head of Distributed Energy & Heat Policy, DECC
Since joining the then DTI in 2000 Hergen has led on a number of key departmental
projects including developing SME policies, Competition policy for the DTI
Enterprise Act 2002 and leading work on the Consumer Credit White Paper 2005.
In March 2005 he joined the Department’s Energy Group, taken on the
post of Director for European Energy Policy where he led the UK response for
the development of an integrated European Energy policy reflecting UK's interest
in security of supply and completion of the single market. Last year he led
one of the largest Government consultations on the future of nuclear power.
In February 2008 he was appointed Head of Distributed Energy & Heat Policy,
ensuring the development of a coherent UK DE & heat strategy integrating
policies on renewable and low carbon heat.
Alastair is a professional energy engineer with experience ranging from gigawatt-scale coal and nuclear power stations, through industrial energy efficiency, to very small embedded wind, solar and hydro generators. He founded Flexitricity to enable small generators and energy users to improve their own financial position while reducing the environmental impact of the power generation industry.
Isabelle has worked in the UK electricity and gas markets for over 12 years. She has a BSc (Hons) Mech Eng from the University of Warwick. Her experience spans all phases of projects in the UK, from negotiating contracts for Greenfield power generation projects through to holding responsibility for licenses and their compliance.
Isabelle initially started her career at Powergen where she held a variety of commercial roles. She then moved to NERA Economic Consulting in 2001, working with a wide variety of industry players. In 2005, she founded Equilibrium Energy Consulting. Isabelle has been working with Fontenergy since 2007.
Ian Calvert’s early career was in manufacturing with British Sugar, becoming a site Operations Manager in 1996. He was part of British Sugar’s CHP development team working on major gas turbine projects. He then went on to work in Corporate Affairs on all matters relating to the gas and electricity markets and has particular expertise in emissions trading and bioenergy. In 2005 Ian was seconded as the Senior Policy Analyst at the UK Combined Heat and Power Association.
In September 2007 Ian joined RWE in the UK as Head of Cogen Strategy. RWE Cogen is the UK’s leading industrial cogeneration company.
Ian is also a Director of a UK motorcycle road race team which scored a world first biofuel race win in 2008.
John has 30 years experience within the utility sector having started his career with Manweb as an Electrical Engineer. John later became Connections Manager, establishing the scope of work to include multi utility and working across the North of the UK.
John became General Manager for the Cheshire Region of Scottish Power, with responsibility for the capital programme and operation of the electricity network supplying 500,000 customers.
In 2003 John became Operations Director with United Utilities looking after the connections business. This included the development of a multi utility proposal for the Thames Gateway area of London.
John joined Inexus in January 2007, with responsibility for the asset management business and specifically to develop Envoy's electricity capability. John then set up Metropolitan, the sustainable energy and utility business.
Prashant Vaze is the Chief Economist at Consumer Focus, which campaigns for a fair deal for consumers. Within Consumer Focus he leads work on the impact of increased charges being faced by energy customers in meeting the low carbon challenge. He has worked as an economist on energy and environment issues for several years. He lead work at the Office of Climate Change on decarbonising heat and on reducing emissions from households. He has authored a book The Economical Environmentalist on practical challenges and cost effective solutions for people trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. He spent much of 2008 working as a volunteer in Camden Borough helping local residents reduce their emissions. Camden Borough Council has a large number of properties on district heating systems, sadly only a minority fuelled with CHP systems.
Bob Kennett is an independent consultant to the UK energy sector advising financiers and investors on business opportunities in the UK combined heat & power and renewable energy markets. Bob is also a Non Executive Director at Ceramic Fuel Cells (Australia), which designs and manufactures Solid Oxide Fuel Cell products for small-scale on-site micro combined heat & power (m-CHP), and Non Executive Chairman for Ignis Energy Ltd, a joint venture between John Laing Investments and Regen Energy Ltd developing, financing and managing energy production plants in the UK using wood biomass as the fuel source. Bob is a member of the CHPA Board and Chairs the microCHP forum.
David Wickersham is technical adviser to CityWest Homes, Westminster City Council’s Arms Length Management Organisation. He is currently steering the City Council’s Pimlico District Heating Undertaking, the UK’s first CHP district heating scheme, through another round of expansion and development. David has a firm grasp of practical issues of running CHP district heating and is a regular speaker on the principles of distributed energy.
Ian is the Regional Sales Manager of selected markets worldwide for Centrax and added the UK to his portfolio in August 2008. He is responsible for all aspects of business development in gas turbine based power generation. Project scopes range from generator set only to full EPC energy solutions.
Ian has over 20 years progressive experience in the supply of power generation
equipment with positions held in production, project management and sales.
He started his career with diesel and gas engine driven equipment, primarily
for the Oil & Gas Industry, but also small scale industrial CHP. Following
a period with pump packages, he moved on to gas turbine driven equipment with
the majority of his work being in sales and overseas markets. In addition
to his technical experience, Ian is familiar with the commercial issues related
to power projects including legislation, contract conditions and finance.
John is the policy advisor for the Combustion and Refinery industry sectors.
He workks with stakeholders such as industry trade bodies and Defra and DECC
on regulation such as the Large Combustion Plant Directive, Environmental
Permitting Regulations and the upcoming Industrial Emissions Directive. He
also leads the development of policy for Combined Heat & Power and Carbon
Capture & Storage. Prior to his policy role, John managed a Permitting
Group and was a Process Industry site inspector. Before joining the Environment
Agency 10 years ago, he worked in the chemicals industry for 20 years. John
is a Chartered Chemist and a Chartered Quality Professional.
Following graduation from Lancaster University in 1998 Bruce Collinson joined
the civil service in 1999 working at Government Office for the South East
on Green Travel Plans and Local Authority Housing Strategies and Business
Plans. In April 2004 he joined the Growth Areas Division in the Office of
the Deputy Prime Minister, now Communities and Local Government (CLG) with
responsibility for Growth Area environmental policy, Growth Areas Greenspace
Funding and growth policy in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. He moved to
the Forestry Commission in January 2007 on a 27 month secondment to support
the development of the England’s Trees, Woods and Forests Strategy.
On returning to CLG in April 2009, Bruce worked on the Eco-town Planning Policy
Statement before joining the Homes and Communities Agency in July 2009 to
manage the Community Infrastructure Fund and the Low Carbon Infrastructure
Fund.
Tauno has over 20 years’ experience in working in the power industry, with previous roles in design, project management and sales. He worked for 7 years at Fortum Engineering, where he was specifically involved with biomass power plants and responsible for the product development of a modular power plant based on BFB (Bubbling Fluidized Bed) combustion technology. His current role involves selling EPC power plants in Central Europe.
Tony is the Technical Director of ENERGOS, a Norwegian based company owned by Ener.G PLC, and also responsible for the installation of an ENERGOS gasification plant in the IOW as part of the Defra New Technology Demonstrator Program.
Prior to joining ENERGOS, Tony worked for 15 years with Esso/Exxon in the
refining industry in Europe and USA including projects to gasify heavy fuel
oil to produce syngas, and also projects to upgrade shale oil utilising pyrolysis.
He then worked for UK company, Waste Gas Technology, developing a proprietry
pyrolysis technology from concept through pilot plant stage through to a demonstration
plant processing sewage sludge.
Since September 2007, Phil has been Head of Cogen Asset Management for RWEnpower, prior to which he was Director of the Combined Heat and Power Association following an extensive career across the BP Group.
He was Managing Director of BP Energy Ltd from 1997 – 2003 with responsibility for BP’s energy service business, CHP development activities and the commercial and industrial gas and oil supply business.
Phillip has a degree in Applied Chemistry and MBA. He has a wide range of experience across the Energy Sector spanning 25 years and is a fellow of the Energy Institute. He is a Vice President of the Combined Heat and Power Association, an executive member of Cogen Europe and a Director of Uffculm Environment which is a charity established to help local organisations in the South West of England.
His international experience extended to membership of the Boards of Cogen Europe and Euroheat and Power. In these roles he worked closely with the European Commission in helping shape Energy policy and development of the Cogen Directive.
Current development projects include a 45MWe biomass CHP plant at Tullis Russell Paper Mill in Scotland and the Stallingborough 65MWe biomass unit in North East England.
John Costyn is a team leader in the Renewables Financial Incentives directorate
at the Department of Energy and Climate Change. He is working on developing
new instruments for support of renewable energy including the Renewable Heat
Incentive which will begin in 2011, and Feed-in Tariffs for electricity to
begin next year. He joined the Department in 2008 from the Office of Climate
Change where he worked on heat policy, and on developing the UK's approach
to carbon budgets. He has broad experience in environmental and energy policy
and regulation in both the UK and Australia.
Bruce is one of the business founders of Ceres Power, winning the European Business Plan of the Year in 2001. Ceres is now a successful AIM listed company and has over 90 employees working on major contracts with British Gas, Calor Gas and Bord Gais for domestic boiler units that produce electricity – micro-CHP units. Bruce is a chartered mechanical engineer, holds an MBA and has been involved with the growth of the company from the start. Prior to Ceres, Bruce’s energy background was developed through almost a decade of working around the globe with Schlumberger on upstream oil and gas projects and bringing new technology to the market place. His present management responsibilities include intellectual property and commercial contract support of the Ceres Group. Bruce is a director of Ceres Power Intellectual Property Company Limited.
Mark joined The Co-operative Bank in July this year as Business Development Manager, Renewable Energy & Asset Finance. Mark’s mandate at The Co-operative Bank is to further expand the highly successful renewable, CHP and Energy Efficiency franchise by originating and leading transactions in this sector.
Prior to joining The Co-operative Bank, Mark worked for the Corporate Banking division of CIBC in Toronto, where he led a number of structured finance transactions. Mark qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Grant Thornton and holds a finance degree from the University of Sheffield.
Michael is a founding Director of Delta Energy & Environment Ltd, an Edinburgh-based research and consultancy company specialising in CHP and decentralised energy / low-carbon customer-end energy products and services. He has a 15 year industry background in European and international CHP policy and market deployment, and has a strong background also in other DE fields such as electricity storage and micro-CHP. Michael’s previous roles have included founding Executive Director of the World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE, 1998-2003), founding Managing Director of COGEN Europe (1994-1998), and Assistant Director of the UK Combined Heat & Power Association (1993-1994).
Jamie has been a researcher at Imperial College London since 2007. He currently works within the Technology and Policy Assessment (TPA) team for the UK Energy Research Centre where he co-authored the recent report on Global Oil Depletion. He has also contributed to work for the SUPERGEN consortium on thin-film photo-voltaics.
Prior to his appointment in the TPA Jamie worked on the European Commission 6th framework programme with the for the Measuring Eco-Innovation consortium.
Other research interests include material constraints in the future energy economy. Jamie has an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College London.
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